PODCAST TRANSCRIPT | EPISODE 211: THE LAND OF MOTHERHOOD, PT 22
LIFE TO THE FULL w/ Nancy Campbell
EPISODE 211: THE LAND OF MOTHERHOOD, Part 22
Today my daughter, Serene (of Trim Healthy Mama) is with us! While we are discussing the subject of Living a Joyful Life, I have asked my daughters to come and share their experiences. Next week Evangeline will be with us!
Today, Serene shares how she has learned, in her own personal experiences, to get out of the "grumps" and into the "glory." She shares how she has learned to CAST OFF "the old man" ("the dead man full of maggots" she called it!) and "put on the new man" as she mothers in her home. Serene is a mother of 14 children with eight still living in the home. You will be revolutionized as you listen to this LIFE-CHANGING revelation.
Announcer: Welcome to the podcast, Life to The Full, with Nancy Campbell, founder and publisher of Above Rubies.
Nancy Campbell: Hello, ladies! Well, I’m so excited again! Because today I have Serene with me! I can’t believe it because she is so busy. To get her to do something like this when she has so many podcasts, and meetings, and this and that she has to go to and attend. So, you’re actually here, Serene!
Serene: Yay!
Nancy: It’s amazing! Well, I think most of you will know Serene through Trim Healthy Mama. You most probably listen to their podcast. If you don’t, well, you sure would love to listen to it. Serene is a mother of 14 children, nine biological and adopted children, and a grandmother. The time just goes by, doesn’t it? I could just remember the day she was born. What an amazing day that was and the world has never been the same again!
But we’re still continuing to talk about joy, because I believe we need to keep talking about it until we get it. Because joy is the lifestyle of the kingdom of God. This land that we are talking about, it stems from the Promised Land, a description God gave to the land of Israel. It was a type of the kingdom of God, the land that He brings us into, to live in.
Of course, it’s the land of our motherhood as well.
Romans 14:17: “For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.”
Joy is the lifestyle of the kingdom of God. If we don’t have joy, if we’re not living in joy, well, what kingdom are we living in? Because this is the lifestyle. It’s righteousness, yes. And we don’t have joy without righteousness. It’s peace, and it’s joy.
Now that doesn’t mean, of course, that we’re going to have this wonderful, happy, perfect life where nothing ever goes wrong. No! Life is full of challenges and suffering and heartaches. We’ve talked about that. But joy is undergirding it all.
Serene: Yes! I would like to interrupt. I totally love that, Mum, because what I think and what I’ve seen in my own life, too, is that joy is not happiness. They’re not one and the same. Joy is deeper. Joy is an anchor. Happiness is just circumstantial, like if everything’s going right. Everything is all sunny and rosy.
But joy doesn’t need that foundation. It doesn’t need circumstances to be right because joy is so deep. Joy is so intracellular, into all the cells of our body, because we’ve received it. Life can be, I’ve actually had some of my greatest joyful moments in my hardest moments. Because joy is, I think there’s a word in the Bible that I looked up. I think it’s makarios. Is that a Greek word, makarios? It’s the word for “fully satisfied, blessed.” Also, the word for the joy of our salvation.
Joy is something that makes us fully satisfied, but not in circumstances. It’s something that’s so much deeper because it’s a gift. It’s a gift that we receive that’s not at all involved in circumstances.
Nancy: That’s true, yes. Then we read Romans 15:13: “Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.” Just about every word in that Scripture is so powerful. “Now the God of hope fill you.” We’re not meant to just have a little bit of joy. We are to be filled, “fill you with all joy,” not just a little bit, no, “all joy and peace in believing.”
Serene: Can I interrupt?
Nancy: Yes!
Serene: Well, I noticed what you said there is “all joy and peace in believing.” We don’t get joy unless we’re “in believing.” That’s what I’ve noticed in my life, too. I don’t get joy in the doubt. I don’t get joy in the wavering. I don’t get the joy in the what ifs. I get joy when I stand “in believing.”
Nancy: Absolutely! Yes! When we stand on the truth. Yes, “That ye may abound in hope.” You see, this whole lifestyle of the kingdom is one of abounding. We were talking about that in another session recently. Perisseuo, meaning to “be over the top, excess, superabundance.” It’s not just average, ordinary, status quo. There is a whole level of life in Christ.
Serene: May I interrupt again?
Nancy: Yes.
Serene: I’m a terrible interrupter.
Nancy: Oh, no! That’s what we’re doing! Interrupting.
Serene: Things that you’re saying are like putting spots off in my brain. I just interrupted, Mom, so horribly, and I said about the believing,” in the believing.” But the other little word, little, tinier than believing, but just as important, is the word “in.”
“In believing,” and then you said, “in Christ,” and that’s my whole revelation right now. The biggest revelation that I’ve ever received in my life that’s brought so much breakthrough is that two-letter word “in.”
We have learnt that it’s in Christ, in believing, in fellowship with Him. It’s this indwelling. It’s this experientialness of being in the vine, in the branch. “You are the vine, I am the branch.” It’s in Him, and when we’re in Him is where we can find joy. We cannot find it if we’re out. We have to be in.
Nancy: That is so true. It’s “in.” I love that. We are in Christ, and He is in us. It’s the “in” working both ways. It’s the John 15 abiding, isn’t it? That we may abide in Him, and He abides in us.
Serene: In my Bible, the tiny little book right now, because I’ve got all, I’ve decided to underline all the times I see “in Christ,” or “in” something that who He is. In peace, in righteousness, in love, in, in, in. I’ve underlined it all. It shows me that you cannot walk out this life at all unless we’re in.
Nancy: Yes, I love that! I think I’m going to start doing that too. That’s a good idea. When you’re reading the Word, we are looking out for things. It becomes so much more exciting. So, look out for those little words, “in.”
You know, it’s so true that every word in the Word of God is life. Every word is life to me. Don’t just read it through. Look for every word. I love that, yes! And it’s like what I’m talking to you about this land of motherhood.
Whenever God said He was going to bless His people, it was in the land. “I will bless you in the land. I will do this for you in the land.” It wasn’t out of the land. When we’re out, we don’t get the blessings, and we don’t walk in the victory, and we don’t come into the fullness of what God has for us. We have to be in. We can’t be out. Like He brought us out of Egypt, to bring us into the promised land. That was for the children of Israel, but it’s for us in our experience as well. Amen?
Serene: Yes! I love it!
Nancy: What else do I have? Galatians 5:22: “The fruit of the Spirit is joy.” So?
Serene: When we’re in the Spirit, we walk in joy.
Nancy: If we have the Holy Spirit, which we do, if we’re born again, we can walk in joy. It doesn’t matter what’s happening in our life. We have joy. It doesn’t matter whether we feel like it or not. The truth is we have it.
Now, listen to this Scripture: Colossians 1:11. Paul is praying for the Colossian believers, and he says: “that you may be strengthened with might, according to His glorious power.” That sounds so exciting, and wow! Woo! We’re going to have power for this and that. But it goes on to say, “unto,” what is this power for? “Unto all patience and longsuffering, with joyfulness.”
We need the power of God to walk in patience, and longsuffering, and joyfulness! It’s not something we have of ourselves. It’s the power of God in us. Amen?
Serene: Yeah. Love it.
Nancy: Anyway, Sereny-beans, in your mothering, tell us, how did you walk in the joy of the Lord?
Serene: I think the more I tried to walk in it, I didn’t walk in it. Because it was something that I realized over the years, these gifts of the Lord, they can’t be worked up. They have to be received and then rested in. I feel like the path of the righteous shines brighter and brighter, so I’ve been looking back and watching my journey in hindsight.
I feel like more and more the Lord has been teaching me that “in,” that “in” revelation. I find as I rest in Him, then joy is the fruit of that. When I abide in Him, when I’m in Him, Christ in me, and me in Him, that’s my starting place now for everything. I feel like now I don’t even have to strive, because beforehand I’d be like, OK, I need to work on my disappointment. Or work on the satisfaction, or work on these things. But it never really worked.
I feel like when I delve into and almost swim in His joy and the gifts of the Spirit, then He takes care of the rest. It’s more of this resting, this all-in. I feel like, whenever I’ve had the victory of joy, it’s saying “ha, ha, this is Your gift to me, and I receive it.” Now it’s mine. I don’t have to work it up. It’s mine. I have it now. I totally have it now, so I step into it.
It’s like Paul when he wrote about putting off and putting on. So instead of striving, it’s like, “Oh, well, I’ve paid that ugly mood off, and I’m going to put on joy!” It’s something that I open up the package, “Thanks, God,” and I just slip it on. It’s mine already. I just get in that red Ferrari, and I turn the key, and I start riding down the road in joy.
It’s not like I have to work my way up and get a little bit happier. No, joy is not happiness. But I feel like it’s something that when I realized the revelation that it’s mine, and that it’s paid for, and that it’s in its fullness, and that there’s no lack of it, it’s abundantly joy. A joy for every situation.
It’s not just joy for Christmas day. It’s joy in the hard times. Then it’s like, wow! All I have to do is just get in and wear it! I think even today, even today, just even before coming here, I had to put off the grumps and put on the joy. I feel like you can ride along for a long time and not get tested in certain areas, not even at all. Like you’re doing like a chanty, and all of a sudden, you get tested again.
I feel like I haven’t had to tell my children off for a long, long time. It feels like smooth sailing. Everything was great. Everything was running smoothly. And then last night and today, it was like, wow! They're naughty! I just realized again, I haven’t been doing much training lately and they’re all wild and going crazy!
I felt like I was using a whole lot of energy bringing them back to their chores, like 17 times. Something that could have been so simple, like washing the dishes, it could have taken five minutes, it was taking five hours because they’d do it half-hearted. They wouldn’t do it with soap. They wouldn’t do it with hot water! Everything was blah, left undone, even after them repeating the chores over and over.
I was like, “Oh, this is ridiculous!” But it wasn’t one child. It was five! I was just talking, blah, blah, blah, blah, and I felt like saying, “This is stress!” I was about to get in a big stress-funk. I was overwhelmed with stress. Then I realized, “No, I’m not! This is such an honor to raise these children. I’m just going to relax, put off the grumps, and put on joy, and realize this is my job.”
When other people go to work, maybe dog-trainers, and the dogs aren’t doing everything perfectly, they don’t take it as personally, I think, as when we train children. I feel like the devil has it out for us moms, to get so disappointed and take things so personally when our children aren’t walking in perfect obedience.
When other people have a stressful situation at work, that’s just part of the challenges of work. I had to realize it was like a temptation from the enemy to get discouraged in motherhood. I thought that it was an attack on my high calling for me to get discouraged in it.
When I realized what the devil was doing, and I realized I was wearing grumpy spiritual clothes, unspiritual clothes, it wasn’t like my physical clothing. I had put on the disgusting grumps. I was like, “Get this thing off! It’s uncomfortable, and it’s itchy, and it’s agitating. GET IT OFF AND PUT ON JOY!”
Then I found it was so easy to train, and training was relaxing, and it was who I was as a mom. It was part of the land of motherhood. It became like, “Oh, this is great!”
PUT OFF AND PUT ON
Nancy: That’s so wonderful. I think that is such a great revelation. Isn’t it amazing how when God speaks to us in His Word, He uses illustrations that are right down to life? Like put off and put on.
We all have our wardrobes. We have our certain clothes that we put on. We have our clothes that we put on for working around the house or working in the garden, or for when we go out for the special occasions. But when we have to put off something, it’s not a big deal, as you said. You just put it off.
Then when you have to put on another, put on Christ, to put on, as it says here. In Colossians 3, it tells us some of the things He wants us to put on.
Colossians 3:12-14: “Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering; forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye. And above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfectness.”
All these different dresses that God has given us is our wardrobe, He’s given us a wardrobe, a wardrobe of the new man. Other Scriptures say: “Put on the new man.” Well, there’s not just one garment. There are many, many garments. There’s the garment of forgiveness, and the garment of joy. The garment of patience, and all these.
Now, as Serene was saying, you don’t have to work at it. When we have to go in and put on our garment of patience, we don’t say, “Help! I’ll have to make this dress, and get out my sewing machine, and work hard, and try and make it so I can put it on!” No, it’s given. It’s there. We just go to the wardrobe and put it on!
Serene: It’s comfortable and it fits perfectly. It does. I just love that. And I love how you’re mentioning now putting off the old man and putting on the new. That new man is Christ. It’s Christ in us, the hope of glory. I love that.
So that’s my other revelation now. Whenever I’m finding myself all in angst, or kind of wound up, I think to myself, “Well, that’s not Christ, so it can’t be my new man. So that’s the old dead man. Yuk! That’s full of maggots and that’s like a rotten old corpse. Why am I walking around, being a rotten old corpse?
When I came to Christ, when I look at the cross in my mind, I see myself hanging dead there with Him. Because He did that on our behalf. I died, and now my life is lived through Him. That’s the truth of it. If it’s not the truth of it, then why believe any of it? That’s the crux of it all. That’s the pivotal axis right there. It’s the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ. That’s it.
The whole crux of my faith is that I died. Now I’m only alive in Christ. If I’m having fear, or doubts, or agitation, or negativity, or anything like that, I think, “Yukky old maggoted corpse!” I’m going to put that off and put on Christ.
It’s something that it’s a constant thing some days, some days more than others. But it’s fun. It’s a game to play, and it’s renewing the mind. As soon as I start thinking like the old man, I’m like, “Get out of there!
I don’t want to put make-up on a corpse and try to dress it up and make it appropriate for my family. It’s not appropriate. It’s not appropriate to be around my children or my husband, so I’m just getting rid of this stinky old man, and I’m putting on that new man.
Nancy: Yes! And you can’t dress up the old man. You can’t. It never works. It has to be the new man. Now, lovely ladies, we’re just saying these things but it’s another thing to get them. Just ask the Lord to give you this revelation, because when you come to Christ, you are born again. We’re not just saved for sin and ready for Heaven. No, no, no, no, no, no.
Jesus died to give us this new life. His life, this beautiful life, this life of joy, and patience, and longsuffering, and everything that we need, it’s all in Him. We have it there. It’s given. It’s given. We’ve got it. But we do have to put it on by faith.
We have to come into this revelation. If we come into understanding this, and doing this, we will walk in joy. But we will walk in whatever we need. Patience, longsuffering, and forgiveness, and kindness, all these things, we put them on as they’re needed in the situation.
Serene: Yeah, and I feel like anxiety, depression, negativity, all that, is such a burden. I love how the Bible says: “Cast your cares upon me.” That word “cast” in the Hebrew means “hurl,” like a big strong man would hurl a big rock across the field. Just throw it off! Not just a little cast.
When we put off, it’s almost like casting that burden off. Putting off the old man is like “Oh, I suppose I’ll put it off and dust a little flea off my shoulder,” like that. No, it’s like, in my soul, I think of it like, I’m in so much disgust of that old man, that I’m going to hurl off that burden, and be very stern about it.
I love how it says, in Colossians 2:11: “Him you will also circumcise with the circumcision made without hands by putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ.” And I love that picture of putting off all of that that pertains to that old fleshly nature.
It’s of Christ, a circumcision made without hands. It’s a spiritual one. When we put that off, then we can easily renew our mind and put on. We have to put off before we can put on. We’ve got to get it in the right order. We can’t put on joy if we haven’t hurled off the grumps.
Nancy: That’s true.
Serene: When you’re in the grumps, it’s hard to get out of the grumps. You think, it’s been so many hours working myself up here. Like I was slightly grumpy this morning, and then I was semi-grumpy by the mid-morning. Now it’s late afternoon. I’ve got a serious case of the grumps.
But once you’ve spent that much time in it, you don’t want to get rid of it that quickly. It’s become like a precious thing that you’ve been practicing all day. I feel like it has to be where you decide to put off, like when you cast your burdens off, that very definite, decisive, “I’m hurling this off of me.”
When you put off, then you renew your mind with truth. That’s right. I’m not even alive! It's Christ living in me. I’m this glove, and He’s inside of it, and it’s Him reaching out and touching my children. It’s Him reaching out and loving on my husband. I’m just the vessel. I’m just the conduit. It’s Him. Oh, why was I getting involved and mucking it all up? I put off. Then I can renew my mind. Then I easily put on.
Nancy: That is so good. Oh, my lovely ladies, are you getting this revelation? Because this is what sets you free. This is what brings you into victory and to a life of fullness.
Serene: Can I just say, I’ve heard that “put off, put on” my whole life, because I was raised in the church. But it’s when you really stop seeing it as just a Scripture. My whole life I’ve never wanted to see things just in my mind. I’ve always wanted to see them in my heart. But it was like having to re-read them like I’d never heard them before, like I’d never read them before. Re-read them like I was reading them for the first time, so I wasn’t numb to them.
It’s like the whole issue of abortion. We know it’s wrong. We know it’s taking the life of an innocent. We know it’s so awful, and so hurtful to the heart of God. It should be so shocking to all of us. But even if we’re shocked about it, we know that it’s bad in our minds because it’s been around for so long.
Maybe we don’t have it on our prayer list every day or we’ve become numb to it. We hear people say, “OK, let’s pray. We pray against abortion.” In our minds, it’s a bad thing, but we have to think like we’re hearing it for the first time, that babies are getting destroyed. For the first time. It has to be fresh, and new, and get into our souls. That’s how I feel like it is with the Word of God. Like I’d heard it my whole life, and that’s not a bad thing. That’s a good thing. But I had to start renewing my mind in a fresh way, so it wasn’t just, “Oh, yeah, put off, put on.” And then I’d just go on my merry way.
I had to say, “No, no, no, literally put it off, Serene. That means “put off.” Like P-U-T O-F-F. Like actually get it for real?” That’s the difference between Christianity and a life of victory with Christ where I was sort of saved. I know God saved me! I know that. But was I really experiencing salvation?
The difference between that, and how God is leading me now, it’s a place of breakthrough in my lie. Because I’m reading the Word of God like it’s hitting my soul for the first time. Like the first-time hearing that we should pray against abortion. Like the first time.
I feel like, if you’re listening to this podcast today, and you’re like, “Well, I’ll turn up these Scriptures. It’s such a lovely little podcast. Oh, yes, we’ve got to put off the negativity and put on joy.” But no, I mean seriously! Seriously, the whole crux of victory life is put off, because we’re not meant to be dragging that old man anymore. Renew our mind and put on Christ.
It’s so simple. One little sentence: “Put off, renew mind, put on.” That is joy. That is the whole recipe for joy. Everything else is maybe like icing, and maybe like talking about a little bit more, or whatever. But it’s that simple. Put off, renew mind, put on. It’s that simple because it’s already bought and paid for us. All we have to do is wear it. It’s as simple as it is.
Nancy: Yes. I think, as you were saying before, that we have to really see that this old man, that it’s bad, that it’s horrible. We want to put off, because half the time, we like keeping on with our negativity, and our grumpiness. It’s sort of, kind of, we can get comfortable with that. We mustn’t. We must see it for what it is.
Serene: Can I say one more thing to interrupt? When we say, “We mustn’t”? Does the “mustn’t” because we’re realizing it in our heart? Not just in our mind, but in our heart, that it’s not worth knocking around with the old man, because it leads to death. It leads to misery.
But it’s not work. I read something this morning that totally blew my brain. I wish I’d brought my Bible. Mom said I would borrow mine. But I don’t like other people’s Bibles. I left mine at home, but it’s in the first chapter of Hebrews. It talks about Jesus and how he is seated at “My right hand until I make your enemies under your feet” (Hebrews 1:13).
Nancy: “Your footstool.”
Serene: “Under Your footstool.” And I saw it for the first time! I’m like, “Hah, it’s so simple!” I’m in Christ, so I died with Him. I was buried, so that dead man’s buried. It’s under the ground, like way more than six feet under. It’s gone, totally gone.
Now I’m alive in Him. And where is He now? We don’t just stop at the resurrection. We go to where the resurrection took Him, which is where we abide, at the right hand of the Father. Where He is, we are, because we’re in Him.” When it says: “Jesus is at the right hand of the Father until I make your enemies your footstool,” I thought, “Well, that’s where I’m at then! If I’m in Him, I’m at the right hand of the Father!
So, guess what? All I have to do is be there, and He’ll make my enemies my footstool! I don’t have to work on grumpiness, and I don’t have to work on depression. All I have to do is stay at the right hand of the Father.
It was such a beautiful picture of peace to me. I don’t have to work on this. This is not a hard chore. I’m just staying at the right hand of the Father. So, all day long, that’s been my new little revelation. Even though the enemy, like I said before, was tempting me to get a little bit discouraged in motherhood.
The other thing I was saying to myself was “Will that trust stay at the hand of the Father, Serene?” Because it’s easy there. We don’t have to work on our problems because He does. Depression, anything that opposes joy, is an enemy. He puts our enemies under our feet when we’re staying at His right hand.
Nancy: That’s so powerful. I think you really brought out this truth, didn’t you, in the last book that you wrote, “I’m That Girl.” In a way, where you’re encouraging women to leave their old negative state and confess their new life in Christ.
Serene: Well, it’s an identity, really. It’s an identity, because when you think, “Well, my life is hard.” Or “My husband lost his job,” and “I’m dealing with fibromyalgia.” And “I've got five special needs children.” Or whatever it is. These are all real things. I’m not making light of them.
But when that is our identity, that is what we’re thinking about all day. That’s who we see that we are. We’re not going to walk in victory anymore. It’s like the revelation I had today. That’s going to be my new identity.
“I’m that girl who sits at the right hand of the Father!”
Nancy: Whoo!
Serene: So, it doesn’t matter what assails me. It doesn’t matter what my circumstances are. It doesn’t matter what! I’m above that because I’m seated at the right hand of the Father! He’s making my enemies under my feet. They’re going to be my footstool. That’s my new identity. It’s where our identity is. That’s everything.
When our identity is that we are a new creature, like never before seen on this whole planet before Christ came and died on the cross. We are a new creature that was never seen before. It’s not a visitation, where God would come and visit the prophets, and visit people, via visitational culture. Now it’s a habitational, it’s an indwelling. My identity now is, “Christ in me.”
So, what do I have all day? I have hopes of glory all day long! That’s my identity. This life, this day, all is spent with the hope of glory. Every minute, what do I have inside? The hope of glory. And glory is such a huge word. I’m sure that you’ve done a study on that, and you know all about what the glory is, of the Lord.
But that’s huge. That’s my identity. Whatever our identity is, is what we walk in. It doesn’t matter if you hear this podcast, if you read the Scriptures, and even if you try to put it to heart, if you walk away, and your identity is still of one that is discouraged, or your identity is still that of one that has a hard lot.
That’s what happened, sorry, I’m really on a roll. But that’s what happened when I went through my last miscarriage. I was so thoroughly happy to be pregnant, to carry life again. And I had two miscarriages prior to that in a row.
When I lost the baby, the enemy really tried to discourage me, and say, “Well, you can’t be full of joy now. You can’t be happy, really, because you’re not pregnant. You were so happy being pregnant, and now that’s removed from you. You’ve got lack now, so you can’t be really fully happy.”
When I walked around with an identity, I was miserable. Then, when the Holy Spirit came and ministered to my heart, and said, “Ha ha. Now, why I’m fullness? I am your portion, and in Me there is no disappointment. In Me there is no lack. And if I’m in you, and you’re in Me, then you have no room. There’s no space at all that I don’t fill because I’m the fullness that fills all in all.”
There’s no room for disappointment. We’re not like, “Whoa, what a revelation!” That’s what got me out of the great grief that I had. Now, if I get pregnant again, that’s just icing on the cake. But the cake is fully made and fully delicious. He is my whole cake. He is my fullness. I can be completely filled, abundant with joy.
Nancy: Amen. Our time is going, but let’s just finish on these beautiful Scriptures, because you just said, the fullness of joy. The Bible speaks about this.
John 15:11: “These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full.” Not half full, but full.
John 16:22: Jesus said, “Your joy no man taketh from you.” Now, no man can take that joy that God has given you as a gift. It’s only you. Only you, with your bad attitudes, my bad attitudes.
1 John 1:4: “And these things write we unto you . . .”
Serene: The old you, not the real you. The real you is Christ in you. There is no in and out.
Nancy: “And these things write we unto you, that your joy may be full.” Amen?
I see you’ve got this book in your hand, called “Moving Your Invisible Boundaries” by Dr. Jim Richards. Wow, you’ve just got it underlined all the way through!
Serene: Oh, yeah, God had already been bringing me on this journey of identity in Him. It’s been such a fun, exciting adventure! But then a friend of our families gave me this book, Moving Your Invisible Boundaries. I started reading it, and it was another incredible, it helped reveal and give me understanding to this whole in Him, through Him, by Him, everything is in Him. Everything is the “in,” the I-N. It’s the most amazing book. I recommend it to anybody. It’s so powerful.
Basically, it’s about the fact that you’re dead in Christ, you’re buried, and you’re resurrected in Him. Just to walk in that. So many times we don’t walk in it! We forget about all that, and then we try, try to be good Christians, but we don’t have to, when we’re walking in the identity of new life.
Nancy: Amen! If you haven’t already read Serene and Pearl’s book, I’m That Girl, you can order it from AboveRubies.org. That is so powerful and life-changing, too.
We’ve come to the end of this session. Thank you, Serene. So great to have you with us.
“Lord God, we thank You so much for the revelation of Your Word. Thank You for giving us these principles of how to live in victory. Thank You, Lord, that You’ve given us Your life. Thank You, Lord, that You have stated, and this is the truth, that we are dead and buried and risen with You and seated at the right hand of the Father. Thank You, Lord God.
“Help us to see who we are and live in it. Bless these precious mothers and wives and daughters who are listening today. Bless their families, Lord God. Let them come closer and closer to You. May their homes be strengthened more and more. In the Name of Jesus. Amen.”
Serene: May I say one more thing? Amen, Mum to that. Can I say one thing though? That Scripture, “Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ.”
Nancy: 2 Corinthians 10:5.
Serene: I think that’s what it comes down to, too. Casting down all these things is another way of putting off. Any thought that comes to you during the day that says, “This is the reason why I don’t have to be in joy.” Anything! That’s a vain imagination. It’s a deception. We cast it down, because it’s exalting itself against the knowledge of Christ.
The knowledge of Christ is, He died so that everything of that old nature, all the things that are opposing the fruits of the Spirit, love, joy, peace, and all the rest. They are gone! And the knowledge of Christ is, now it’s Him and us. It’s just Him. If we have a thought that’s not Him, then it doesn’t belong in us, and we cast it down, because it exalts itself against Christ in us.
Nancy: Amen! Amen. Thank you, Serene.
Blessings from Nancy Campbell
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