Since God says in Jeremiah 1:5 that before he even formed us in our mother’s womb that he knew us already knew what he wanted to do with us don’t you think that it would be the enemy’s number one priority to get you to doubt your purpose in God to get you to forfeit
Your destiny in God to get you so confused and so doubtful about who you are that you would not care to seek God for who he says you are to be what he says you are supposed to do with your life the enemy is strategic but so is
Our God and God is so specific about everything that he put into you your character your personality the things you like the things you don’t like because he knew that those things would be able to have a specific purpose in order to give him glory so I want to
Talk about the ways the enemy can come in and deceive us and distract Us and how we can use our Authority in those situations and really start to tap into our purpose and Destiny in God welcome back to the woman in intentionally podcast it is your girl Whitney and I
Want to talk about how to get comfortable being who you are so God can show you your purpose let’s get into it Sis let’s talk about it all right let’s talk about how being ourselves sometimes feels scary sometimes it feels like it’s not enough you know it’s
Really easy to get caught up in like social media comparison and all of those things when when we are trying to develop our identity when we’re trying to figure out who we are um especially who we are in God okay when I was uh doing my thing in
The world and trying to figure out who Whitney was in the world I feel like I kind of knew who I was okay I felt like that was a little bit easier like doing all the nonsense I kind of got right in where I fit in and even though I had
Moments and nights where I was so disgusted with who I was back then um I pushed past all those and still was able to walk with confidence and boldness in who I was in the world okay as crazy as it must sound but then coming into a new identity in
Christ understanding that God requires Holiness and learning about him and all the things that that that happened when we began to start to serve the Lord personally it was kind of intimidating and you see the glory on some people’s lives and it’s almost intimidating and and like seems impossible and because we
Start to focus on people more than we focus on God it can be discouraging for us when we are starting out and starting our walk with Jesus so so back to this Jeremiah 1 and5 scripture when God tells um Jeremiah that before I formed you in
Your mother’s womb I knew you I had predestined you to be a prophet to the Nations I I was thinking about that and I know we can get caught up in Prophet to the nation but that was the call that God had on Jeremiah’s life that do doesn’t necessarily mean that he’s
Calling you to be specifically a prophet to the nation but that is an encouragement to know that God is so far ahead of us that he had a plan and a purpose for us specifically based on who we are to glorify him to add to the kingdom of God for whatever purpose that
He knew he needed us for he knew that before we were even formed in our mother’s womb so then we get to real life and then Satan starts to distract us and discourage us um we’re born into sometimes families who may be struggling with generational curses because they
Haven’t had the person to come through and break those things up off of them um and then we get discouraged by our circumstances and almost feels like how can God use me if I come from this family how can God use me with all the mistakes I’ve made how can God use me
When my finances are jacked up or you know I’ve done all these things and I’m where I am in life and it just does not seem to be going well the enemy comes and he is excited about those things because he knows if we can get so
Consumed with those things and with the circumstances that are surrounding us that that we won’t take the time to get close to God we won’t start to tap into who he really is so that he can begin to show us our purpose and our destiny I remember getting so many books
About know your purpose and the purpose this and your purpose this I think those things are good for you know certain seasons and things but I know specifically I was going to those things hoping that they would help me identify my purpose I didn’t necessarily go to
God I didn’t necessarily go and seek God and try to get to know him the God who created me and gave me all this purpose and has all these plans and ideas for me I didn’t really take the time to get to know him so that he could tell me who I
Was and so it’s like I’m going to this supermarket and just oh maybe this is my purpose maybe this is my purpose picking out all these things instead of saying God what is your purpose for my life and I think that that in itself is even a
Journey right there have been seasons in my life where I was doing things and I know God wanted me to do them for that season but it’s like this this life and this journey with God is continual like he’s always revealing himself to us he’s always revealing what he wants of us and
How he can use us and so so if we are tuned in to him if we are seeking him and we are communing with him and getting to know him then we’ll be able to hear when he’s shifting us we’ll be able to hear when he is sending us in a
Different direction that maybe we didn’t even see coming for ourselves in thinking about that I want us to consider how much time we’re spending with God I know I keep going back to this spending time with God but the only way that we will get to know God is
Spending time with him and when I say spending time with him I mean reading his word I mean talking with him Matthew 6:33 says seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness and then everything else will be added so all the things that we are looking for in life
They’re going to be added to us um as we begin to seek God and seek his righteousness for example before seeking God and seeking his righteousness the things that I wanted and desired were totally different but when we start to seek God and seek his righteousness he
Changes so many of our desires he changes the things that we enjoy what we consider fun he changes so many things about us as we seek his righteousness we find out that man that ain’t really good for me man maybe that’s not what I’m supposed to be doing right now because
It’s taken away the opportunity for me to seek God and so as we begin to seek God and seek his righteousness he starts to give us the things that he desires for us to have and he gives us the things that we need in order to bring
Him glory in order to fulfill our purpose in life and so my question to you is have you been spending time with God about your purpose about your destiny about where you are specifically right now maybe it’s a good season it is a great season because I really believe in
That okay I don’t believe we’re always in a doom and gloom area of life like there going to be some Seasons that are really good good and then there going to be Seasons that are challenging and so maybe you’re in a really good space in life maybe you’re in a rough patch in
Life regardless of where you are God still can use that for his glory he can still teach us things in all of those Seasons we can use the times that are really good to really um just Embrace what he’s doing and embrace the goodness the blessings that come with serving God
And prepare ourselves and build ourselves up so that when attacks come or other Seasons come we are prepared for the fight and when I say that I don’t necessarily mean like o I’m going to be getting myself ready because a fight is coming I don’t know when it’s
Coming but it’s coming I don’t mean it like that I mean just getting to know God and being in a place of loving him and getting to know him um genuinely not because we know something bad is coming but because he’s our God and because we
Want to get to know him then when the thing happens or if something happens then we’re able to handle those things because when we start to get to know God he starts to show us so much that It prepares us for other seasons of life um
So my first question would be how much time are you spending with God and if you’re not really spending that time with God I would challenge you to find a way to get more time to be able to seek God and his righteousness so he can
Begin to show you and add some uh good things to your life now now let’s talk identity let’s talk about who you are and the things that make you you April we’re going to be talking about identity I’m going to be studying with the ladies Ephesians um and we’re going to be just
Walking through about our identity in Christ and all that stuff um and so if you’re not in the intentional woman safe space make sure you head over to Facebook and join us girl we have Bible studies every other week we have office hours where we come together and connect
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Anyway let’s get back to it let’s talk getting comfortable with who you are like I was saying it’s so easy to get caught up in comparison and thinking about where we’re not or who we want to be that we don’t really take the time to embrace and to evaluate who we are and
Where we are um in our identity um I’m not one of those people that believe like this is me and this is who I am and you need to get with it or get lost I believe that God is always evolving and growing us and so if there are things in
Our identity and in our character that need to change so that we can more glorify God then those things need to happen I know y’all all have met people who are like this who I am and you might as well just deal with it um you can’t
Teach a old dog new tricks I’ve heard that but that’s not really how it works with God like he is always growing us and growing our faith and growing who we are in him and changing and sh shifting our identities little by little um our character working on those things
Exposing things that need to improve and then also honoring where we are too honoring Who We Are by giving us a purpose because of who we are um not everyone is a social butterfly not everyone is talkative or um not everyone is quiet and So based on who you are and
Your personality God can use that like everybody’s not going to be like me I’m not going to be like everybody but I’m okay with that and I’ve had to learn to become okay with that um because I recognize that God made us unique Psalms 139 and4 says thank you for making me so
Wonderfully complex your workmanship is marvelous how well I know it so and I bring that up because we are all different we are all complex no one is the same God didn’t make clones so it’s so important for us to embrace to embrace our differences and who we are
One of the ways that the enemy kind of strategically messes with our personality is with horoscopes I’ve mentioned this before a horoscope you put in your birth month and it’ll tell you your character how you behave it’ll tell you how you should be feeling what
To look out for on certain days of the month all of these different things and if we’re not careful we will allow those things to determine who we are how we behave the type of people we connect with getting us out of alignment with what God has called us to be getting us
Out of alignment with the possibilities that God has for our destiny right it’s almost like we’re asking the Stars to tell us who we are and how we should behave instead of seeking God for knowledge and wisdom about who he created us to be and it’s so important
That we seek him because his word tells us how we should act the fruit of the spirit it tells us all of these different things but if we are not careful we’ll listen to these demons talking to us through horoscopes and we’ll start to believe those things over the word of
God I know for a fact they say like some zodiac signs don’t forget they hold on they hold grudges and all those kind of things but then God tells us to forgive he tells us to let things go and let him deal with situations that is one way
That the enemy will take your personality and shape it in a way that God never intended for it to be shaped and so we have to be careful about about who is influencing our identity our identity should come from Christ it should come from God and so now is a
Good time to reflect and say my identity right now where did it come from what has influenced my identity did my favorite rapper my favorite singer did my my best friend or my pastor who has shaped my identity my sorority my fraternity who has shaped my
Identity um and is it in line with what God says that I should be Baseline like that’s the thing right when we read the word God is giv us a baseline he gives us the bare minimum like hey these are the characteristics I want y’all to have
As my people and then he adds to it from there right he he uses our personality to kind of spice that up based on who we are but if we don’t get to know what he says how do we solidify our identity so today I want you to evaluate your
Identity the way I talk my routines my personality how forgiving I am how kind I am what has influenced these things some of the other things that the enemy uses to shape our identity is by our circumstances I said ear I mentioned earlier about generational curses sometimes we are born into families who
Have a long line of promiscuity all the women in the family are promiscuous um none of the women get married the men are drug abused there’s molestation all the men are alcoholics or drug addicts never get married the men have babies everywhere and just leave them and it’s a a repetitive cycle
Every generation your dad did it his dad did it he doesn’t know his dad and it just continues to go back when you start to see patterns generation after generation that’s how we begin to recognize that these are generational curses operating in our lives and so if
We never come into the knowledge of Christ being able to break generational curses and start setting up generational Blessings by serving him and living for him then we’ll continue to allow that generational curse to operate in our lives that’s why it’s so important to take inventory to evaluate to sit back
And think the things I’m dealing with did my mom deal with them did her mom deal with them did her mom deal with it and if we see that that is something that’s been happening maybe there’s a situation for example your mom doesn’t like her mom and her mom doesn’t like
Her mom and it just continues to go back the mothers do not like each other and if you don’t recognize that as a generational curse and begin to uh break that generational curse by pleading the blood of Jesus by asking God to break generational curses in the name of Jesus
Then you will see yourself begin to form a relationship with your daughter that looks like y’all aren’t going to get along that will continue to repeat itself generation after generation so the enemy allows these things that have been operating in family Bloodlines for years and generations to come in and
Manipulate your identity now you’re an angry woman who doesn’t like anybody who doesn’t trust women who doesn’t all these different things because of a generational curse that has been allowed to roam free for Generation after generation and listen here the enemy was hoping that you wouldn’t figure this out
So that you wouldn’t start praying against that generational curse and you would just think it was normal for everyone to hate their mom so that you could create that same type of relationship for you and your daughter so God may be using you not necessarily
To be a prophet to the Nations but he may be calling you to be a prophet to your family to speak the word of God to your family and tell them about the power of Jesus Christ and break the covenants that your ancestors made with demons or just by making bad decisions
And not living for God to start these generational curses coming up on the family and so it is our responsibility to as we come into the knowledge of Christ to begin evaluating what’s operating in our families and breaking those generational curses through prayer through fasting through difficult conversations through pleading the blood
Of Jesus sis it is so possible for you to start making changes that won’t only benefit you but it’ll also benefit your children’s children and their children um it’s a beautiful thing so we have to be mindful and be aware and alert that the enemy uses generational curses to
Continue leading us down uh paths that ruin or manipulate our identity Christ does not want you addicted to drugs Christ does not want you with five or six or seven baby daddies he wants you married I don’t care what you’ve done or what you’ve done to this this point he
Wants you to be someone’s wife he wants you to be a good mother he wants you to be free from drugs free from promiscuity free from all the things that have plagued your family for years he wants you free from that and he wants your children free from that and so you may
Be the on sis to break those generational curses so I’m telling you right now start to evaluate so that you can know how you need to strategically war against those generational curses and then begin to set yourself and your children up for the blessings of God that go on for
Thousands of generations okay yes it’s possible the last thing I’ll talk about when it comes to our identity in Christ um and how the enemy can manipulate our identity so that we’re not confident in who God is calling us to be is through negative selft talk the way you talk to
Yourself sis if you are always talking harshly to yourself if you are in a space where where you just don’t really see any hope for yourself I’m telling you girl it feels so real I just remember being in a space of not having any confidence um not being hopeful at
All just being like drowned in my situation and in my circumstances um and those moments were so overwhelming and I look back now and I realized that I didn’t use any of the tools that I have I didn’t use any of my tools that God gave me I wasn’t pleading
The blood of Jesus over my life I wasn’t um speaking the word of God in my situation I wasn’t um seeking God for wisdom and Clarity I wasn’t seeking God for peace girl I was just crying all the time looking in the mirror crying um telling everybody my business I was uh
Trying to convince people to do and behave differently so that my life could get better instead of taking control of my life I had to accept my responsibility in my circumstances had I did everything that I could have possibly done to not be in that situation no did I make horrible choices
Yes okay I made some horrible choices but that don’t mean I have to keep making horrible choices I had to learn how to cut people off I had to learn how to take responsibility and start making changes on a daily basis I didn’t like the way I looked I had to start trying
To eat better trying to work out better and that itself kind of shifted my confidence but then as you realize that you can look good on the outside but if the inside is not what it needs to be you are still going to end up in cycles
Of feeling good cycles of feeling bad feeling good feeling bad until you allow God to truly heal you internally and so I had to take responsibility for who I was where I was the decisions I had made the people I was allowing to be in
My life and I had to start setting some boundaries and deter and determining how I was going to allow people to affect my life how I was going to try to live and and and handle myself um I had to start evaluating how much responsibility and
How much Authority I had in my situation when I start thinking like that girl I mean things just changed and so my encouragement to you today would be to evaluate your role in your situation how intentional are you about your day how intentional are you about speaking life
To yourself Talking kind to yourself giving yourself Grace but at the same time holding yourself accountable how intentional are you about those things and if you’re not then s this is a friendly reminder to be intentional about what you can control you may not be able to control
Anyone else I can’t control my kids I can’t control my husband I can’t control my family members or my friends but I can control how I deal with them how much access I allow people to have to My Life um what I am and am not willing to
Tolerate and accept from people I can control all of those things and then I had to this just came to my mind you have to recognize that if God be for you that is more than the entire world against you now In the Heat of the Moment it feels lonely girl I ain’t
Going to lie but when you start to recognize that if I got God he’ll draw the right people to me okay so if I got to lose somebody or I have to be separated for some from someone temporarily in order to gain um in order to gain a better more suitable
Person for the life that I’m trying to live the righteousness that I’m trying to seek through God then I just got to do what I got to do you just got to do what you got to do there are some people who are not meant to be in your life for
Every season that doesn’t do mean you hate them okay that doesn’t mean you hate them that just means you have to uh seek God about those relationships and friendships and how he wants you to navigate them are you just supposed to plant seeds and let somebody else water
It so God can bring the increase are you supposed to be watering while somebody else is planing the seed this season like what is that seek God for that and he will show you and so we got to get to the point that we really believe that having God is enough
Having God Is Enough okay because if we sacrifice what we know is right just so that we can have someone or something in our life then that thing has become Our God okay that man has become your God if you refuse to let him go even though you
Know God has told you that he is not your husband he’s become your God okay Lord I’m going to choose him over being righteous with you right like he has become a god food has become a god I’mma do um I’m doing an episode on gluttony here soon
When the Lord gets me together all the way with that I want to share with you guys but food can become my God if I know this food is killing me but I continue to eat it if I know I am overindulging and I continue to do it
When God is telling me no that food my belly has become my God that food has become my God I’m doing what my belly says do before I do what God says do y’ it’s so real oh my goodness so it’s not just men and things it can be food it
Can be anything if you value that thing more than you value being obedient to God it has become your God but you always have an option God says that he will always provide a way of Escape all temptation he will always provide a way of Escape so my
Encouragement to you is to evaluate how much control you’re taking of your life so as begin to seek God for who you are and what you’re really supposed to be doing in this life your purpose your destiny as you begin to seek Him for those things by being obedient then he’s
Going to begin to show you how you need to shift and manipulate your life manipulate your decisions and friendships and lifestyle and all those things he will begin to show you those things because you won’t be comfortable doing certain things anymore um and then you’ll have a a urge to do certain
Things because God is pulling you towards that because it is in line with your destiny so I want you to be encouraged to listen to God so I want you to be encouraged to seek God to seek the kingdom of God and his righteousness so that everything else can start to be
Added to your life your personality who you are uh your purpose and your destiny is wrapped up in God you can’t get that I mean you can get a different version of it that might yield some success from like the world and from you know people that you really
Look up to but the creator that created you has the Divine Purpose and Destiny for your life so um instead of allowing horoscopes generational curses and poor decisions to get you off track from your purpose I want to encourage you to tap into to God are seeking him and seeking
His righteousness so that he can begin to show you who you are it’s a beautiful thing you may not be able to see it right now but I guarantee you when you start to really get to know God you’re going to be like man this is so much
Easier it’s so much more natural because that’s the thing that you were created for no longer are we allowing the enemy to steal kill and destroy our vision for our lives no longer are we going to allow him to kill steal and destroy um the purpose and Destiny that God has for
Our lives we’re not going to allow the enemy to distract us and get us looking over here when we should be having our eyes focused on Christ that’s it it stops today so make a commitment to yourself make a commitment to God to seek first the kingdom of God and his
Righteousness and then everything else will be added to you sis I’m excited for you to really get a hold of what God wants to do through you I’m excited for you to really get a hold to your purpose and your destiny that I can’t give you
Man can’t give you but only God can give you because that’s when you going to be walking it that is when it’s going to be the most genuine when you are doing what God says you were created to do I hope this blessed you I hope this opened your eyes
Gave you a little bit more courage to take authority over your life to start breaking generational curses off of you and your children or your future children I hope this encouraged you to get serious about setting aside some time for God and really seeking him for
The purpose that he has created you for ladies I love y’all thank y’all so much for tuning in make sure you like And subscribe and share this with a sister that you believe could benefit from it if you enjoyed the video sis comment okay sis like the video because that
Helps YouTube know that other people need to see this content I love y’all I appreciate y’all and I pray that y’all have an amazing rest of your week so sis do all the things seeky first the kingdom of God and his righteousness but while doing that do not forget to Woman
Intentionally all right see y’all in the next episode bye
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