Unveiling the Enemy's Tactics: Reclaiming Your Identity in Christ

Spiritual warfare isn't just a concept—it's a daily reality affecting your thoughts, dreams, and identity. In this powerful episode, we dive deep into understanding the battleground of your mind and how the enemy creates strongholds that prevent intimate connection with God.

Ever had dreams that left you feeling unsettled or imprisoned? These might be more significant than you realize. I share my recent experience with troubling dreams and the profound revelation God provided through Nahum 1:7: "The Lord is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble. He knows those who take refuge in him." This scripture illuminates our critical choice—will we fortify the enemy's lies or trust in God's protection?

We explore the barriers that block sonship with our Heavenly Father: unbelief, shame, rejection, wrong identity, father wounds, and pride. These obstacles manifest as sins of commission (what we do), sins of omission (what we don't do), sins of the heart, and even identity-based sins like rejecting who God says we are. The good news? You have the power to overcome everything trying to knock you off course.

The transformation journey requires understanding how God's kingdom operates. When we know our King and His ways, we can navigate life from a position of authority rather than victimhood. Romans 12:2 becomes our battle cry: "Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind."

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Chapters

• 0:01 Introducing Sonship and Kingdom Identity
• 6:39 Two Kingdoms at War: Awareness is Power
• 11:22 Seeking First the Kingdom: Operating System
• 14:41 Barriers to Sonship: Breaking Sin Patterns
• 25:07 Dreams of Captivity: Spiritual Warning Signs
• 30:05 God's Stronghold vs Enemy Strongholds
• 35:36 Taking Territory in Your Mind

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:01

Welcome to the Think Cute Podcast, where thinking cute is a lifestyle not being conformed to the world, but being transformed by the renewing of your mind. Join me as I lead you in the disrupting of toxic patterns. We are pushing back the gates of hell and we are taking authority over our minds and we are changing our lives. So, in Jesus name, amen, amen. Well, welcome back. We have been having conversations around sonship and you know, from finding out where you are in your heart, posture what you're believing to taking new territory, and I just found an unpublished episode that I just published about transforming adversity and embracing faith and mindset for personal growth and fulfillment. So enjoy that bonus episode that is in the middle of the series.

Speaker 1: 1:01

However, I'm excited to talk to you today because God is on the move and he wants you to know some things. And who knows that? The Bible says that my people perish. God says my people perish for lack of knowledge, and so those who get knowledge and know the truth will be set free, and who the sun sets free, come on. Somebody is free indeed, and so today I'm going to bring you some, some truth. I'm going to bring you some revelation that I have received in the last 24 hours, which is very exciting because, who knows, come on, girlfriend, I'm talking to it's just me and you right here but do you know that there is an enemy that is out to steal, kill and destroy you and your life and everything attached to your destiny, your family? He wants to divide, he wants to make you offended, he wants to destroy you, and it's every second of the day that you have the opportunity to be offended or you have the opportunity to think a negative thought that makes you feel a negative emotion, that makes you do a negative thing. And so if we know, if we know this, if we have knowledge of this, then we can be more aware and more equipped to dominate in the game of good and evil. Yes, there's two kingdoms at war right now, and so it's up to us to be educated, be indoctrinated with the truth, okay, and so the society, mechanism, hypnotic system of the world is going to try to show you things that manipulate the word of God and show you things that are like that manipulate the word of God and show you things that are like, oh, this is good, when actually it's bad.

Speaker 1: 3:08

It happened in the Garden of Eden, where Satan manipulated and said hey, did God really say that you couldn't eat of this? You know of? You know all the trees? He focused on lack. He focused on the one thing that they couldn't have when they were surrounded by abundance. And so you know what today is being manipulated in your life for you to focus on the lack versus the abundance that you actually have in Christ Jesus. Come on, like we have to become so abundantly aware.

Speaker 1: 3:46

So let me tell you where I'm coming from today and again we're in this series. I want to. I really am being led personally and you know, with you, into sonship, identity, being a daughter of the Most High King. What does it look like? And the Bible says seek first the kingdom and all these things will be added. And this I've talked about it before and this is just. We got to go back to it because it's the foundation.

Speaker 1: 4:17

It's like if we don't know who the king is, if we don't know what kingdom we are in to seek, how are we going to seek the kingdom if we don't even know what the kingdom is and what that looks like? There's a king that has a dominion. It's the dominion of the king, christ Jesus, god, our Father. His dominion is his kingdom. And so if we actually know how this kingdom operates, what's the ecosystem of the kingdom, what are the rules of the kingdom, how do I, as a daughter in this kingdom, as a princess, as a queen in the kingdom, how do I operate? If we don't know how the operating system of this kingdom is going about, then we can't seek first the kingdom. And so that's why it's so important to get in the word, to know your identity in Christ, know what God says about you and his kingdom that we may operate properly. And so, in sonship, in knowing that you're a daughter of the most high king, so in sonship, in knowing that you're a daughter of the Most High King, we first have to know that there is a king. God is the king of the kingdom. And if we seek him and it says if I abide in you, lord God, you abide in me, am I seeking you, am I abiding in you and you abiding in me? And so, and it also says, if you live by the flesh, you die by the flesh. If you live by the spirit, you, you, you'll live by the spirit. You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 1: 5:54

Like I probably misquoted that scripture, but in in essence it is if I live by my fleshly desires, I'm going to get my like. I'm hungry, I want to be lazy, I want to be comfortable, I don't want to be uncomfortable All of these things versus if I live by the spirit. The spirit is continuously wanting us to get better and if I live by the spirit, he wants me to do the good thing. He wants me to do the good thing. He wants me to do the hard thing that makes me good. He wants me to do the right thing. That's hard. When my flesh wants to do the easy thing, that is equally hard, but a different hard right. We have to choose the hard that we like. It's hard to be broke and it's hard to be rich. It's hard to be fat and it's hard to be skinny, like or fit or thin or healthy. It's hard Like. We have to choose our heart. So you either pay for it on the front end or you pay for it on the back end.

Speaker 1: 6:55

All that being said is where are you? Goes back to that. Where are you and what territory are you taking currently as a son or daughter in the kingdom? Are you seeking first the kingdom? Because when we seek first the kingdom. All of these things will be added. What things will be added? Good things. Jeremiah 29, 11 declares that the Lord says for I know the plans that I have for you, says the Lord, they are plans for good and not disaster or evil, plans to give you a future and a hope. So these are the things that we receive when we seek first the kingdom of heaven. But what I want to bring to you today, in understanding what is trying to knock you off of your path to goodness, knock you off of your path to righteousness and receiving all that God has for you, is what is keeping you from sonship with the Father, you from sonship with the Father.

Speaker 1: 8:04

And in our Transformation devotional this week it was brought up what the Bible says about sin. Now we are humans. You and I, girlfriend, have this thing called sin nature. It's sin nature that keeps us disconnected from the Father. It keeps us from intimacy with God. It keeps us from believing that we're a daughter of the Most High King set in heavenly places, a lamp upon a hill, a lamp that shines brightly with the glory of the father. But when we are operating in sin nature, unknowingly and or knowingly, we are severing that intimate connection with our Father and we, if we are operating in sin nature, we cannot believe, because there's this underlining shame, this underlining condemnation spirit that says you're not good enough, you're doing this, you're doing that and you could just be operating automatically, like I've talked about. It's a subconscious belief that has not yet come to the conscious mind of your being, which you can. Then, if you become aware of this thing, you can then take authority over it and replace it and renew your mind.

Speaker 1: 9:44

Romans 12. 2,. Don't be conformed, but be transformed by renewing your mind in the truth of God, that then you could have the life that God has for you, where it says exceedingly, abundantly, more and beyond your wildest dreams or imaginations that you would have. But we have to do the work, we have to replace and transform, we have to allow God to work on us that we then may step into all of these things that he promises us. But it's a process sometimes and we have to recognize that, and you are not called to do it alone. You have the Holy Spirit and you have God. And then you have people like me that have done a thing or two in this area and are completely, radically obsessed with knowing how to help you do this thing, and so you could partner with somebody like me in going further, faster. You know what I'm saying and so that's what I've done. Personally, I have partnered with coaches and mentors to help me go further, faster. And, yeah, so don't do it alone. Just know that you don't have to do it alone. Um, but can we talk really quick? I'm going to open up this can of worms and I'm I'm really not.

Speaker 1: 11:04

This is going to be a series, so please, please, please, come back If you, if this is intriguing to you, if you want to know what the sins are. There's a list of them. My girl, like there is a list and it's like some of the things are like oh yeah, no big deal. That's like no big deal, that's like not a thing, but actually it is a thing and it's causing you. It's causing you incongruency with intimacy with God. It's causing you to be incongruent with what you actually believe or want to believe. You might think a thing but not believe a thing, and so you're not operating out of that thing. You know what I'm saying. So what are the barriers to sonship? Now there's a list. I'm going to quickly go through this list and then I'm going to let you know that we're going to deep dive in them in further episodes and future episodes.

Speaker 1: 12:05

But here's number one unbelief and not receiving God's love. Number two bondage and sin and shame. Number three orphan mentality, the spirit of rejection. Number four wrong identity. Number four wrong identity, lack of mind renewal. I'm telling you this is my greatest passion to see you set free in your identity. And if you are ready and want freedom and want to step into who you truly are, you know you have that, you have that vision.

Speaker 1: 12:44

I want to invite you to the BU times two challenge, where we are going deep, breaking strongholds, just like disrupting all those toxic patterns and limiting beliefs that you've been believing, that are keeping you from your true identity. By the end of that challenge, you're going to have a blueprint challenge. You're going to have a blueprint. You are going to have a blueprint that gives you your purpose, it gives you what you are here to do and why, and you're going to have clarity and with that blueprint you'll never guess again of what you're doing. It may evolve, because we're always evolving, we're always growing and God is taking us glory to glory to glory. But I'm telling you, girl, I want to invite you to get your VIP ticket because that's where you can get coached, one-on-one, in group setting. You can ask a question, I'll answer it one-on-one, but other women will also be in there asking questions and I'm telling you it is the most fruitful, abundant space you could put yourself into with other women that are going after true identity and breakthrough on another level. And so, again, that's just. I want to invite you to get your VIP ticket. A link is in the show notes, but here we go.

Speaker 1: 14:00

Number five father wounds, earthly trauma. Number five father wounds, earthly trauma. Number six pride and self-reliance. Are you relying on yourself? Seven lack of the Holy Spirit relationship.

Speaker 1: 14:23

So listen to this. It gets better. There's more. There's sins of commission, what you do. There's sins of omission, what you don't do. There's sins of the heart, the inward sins. There's social and relational sins and there's sins of the eyes and flesh. There's sins of mental and emotional sins. Mental and emotional sins, religious sins, false spirituality. And there's identity-based sins, rejecting who God says you are. Have you ever said you're not good enough? That's a rejecting of who God says you actually are. And so here's the deal. I don't have time to go through all of these today, but I want you to know that this is where we're headed and this is where we're going. We're going to go deep into this and if you really want to go deeper, join. Join the identity, um, the BU times two challenge, and or my 90 day transformation program, where I take you through all of this stuff and Holy Spirit leads us, um, but you can DM me or email me for information about that. But let me tell you why I'm so excited to talk to you today about this.

Speaker 1: 15:34

I had a couple of dreams in the last week and I've been in this season. I'm launching my business. I'm launching, I'm stepping into my destiny, I have made my blueprint and I am walking it out. Currently, can I tell you that it is not easy and the resistance that I am experiencing internally is heavy and it's hard. But who knows?

Speaker 1: 16:08

I say this all the time Do not be conformed to the world, which will tell you this is too hard, it's okay, just take the easy road. You don't have to do this, or you can choose to be transformed by the renewing of your mind, and so I'm being transformed in real time. We're always being transformed if we choose. And so I'm walking out my calling, I'm walking out my destiny and I'm believing God for massive impact. Completely, when you make an intention, disruption always comes. Something's going to try to throw you off, and so maybe you've heard me say it before but with intention, disruption comes. So, anyways, but we have a choice.

Speaker 1: 16:56

And why do I share all of this sin, the sin, nature that we have, the sonship, the incongruency, all of these things? There's so many layers to this, but the main thing that I want to get to you today is that you, my girl, my girlfriend, you have the power to overcome everything that's trying to knock you off of your path. You have the power. It's your choice that if you're going to do the hard thing to push through the resistance, imagine you're a caterpillar turning into a butterfly. If you help the caterpillar out of its cocoon, you disable it. It will not have the strength to fly if you help it out.

Speaker 1: 19:34

And so I've heard it said by Mel Robbins no one's coming to help you. Nobody's coming to pick you up out of bed, no one's coming to make your bed, no one's coming to do your hair, no one's coming to save you, not like even God waits for you. He gives you the keys to the kingdom, but you have to pick them up and walk, pick up your mat and walk. So the premise of everything that I do and everything that I have a passion for is to tell you that, girlfriend, you are powerful, but there is an enemy that wants to make you believe that you are not and that everything that has happened to you it was your fault and it's because that you were this and you were that, and blah, blah, blah. No, break agreement with that lie and step into your true identity as a son and a daughter.

Speaker 1: 20:36

Repent, repent, repent, repent. We have to repent of our sins, little or big, we have to repent. If you live in a lifestyle and a hard posture of repentance, you will find so much freedom, so so, so, so much freedom I am. So now, quick to repent. It is not above you to bring all of this to the Lord and say, lord, I am, I repent, and say, lord, I repent, I turn from my evil ways. Whether you think it's evil or not, we're going to get into that. I'm going to give you a list God, I turn and I break agreement with this thing.

Speaker 1: 21:37

Everything I tell you is because of that I want you to know that you have the power to step in and so, where the enemy tries to get you and or yourself, that you tell yourself these lies and or he whispers, and then you latch on and you build this whole story around this lie and you believe it, and then you walk out your life believing this lie. And that's what your operating system is. It's your choice. At the end of the day, I have the same choice as you. So the good news is is that, yes, if we learn what sin is, we can do everything in our anointing and partnership with God to resist the devil so he flees. It's not in our willpower. We partner with heaven for strength and courage.

Speaker 1: 22:32

You cannot do it on your own. Trust me, it was like a decade. I tried to do it on my own for a long time. Okay, I found it very exhausting. It's exhausting. You will burn out. If you're in the middle of burnout, it's because you are doing it on your own power and you're not trusting and releasing to God and trusting him to bring all the things that you desire. Seek first the kingdom of God and all these things will be added. Let's learn who the king is so we can be in the kingdom and be the queen of what our destiny really really is. Okay, so, with that being said, let me get to my point. That was my introduction.

Speaker 1: 23:18

I'm I like had this revelation this morning. I had another dream last night. I had two dreams this week and they were dreams of imprisonment, of, like I was cleaning dirty houses, like a house, and I was stuck. And then I was kidnapped and I'm like what is going on? And in my second dream, they were trying to distract me to make it comfortable that I was actually being kidnapped. And I'm like, what is going on? Like I am on alert. I got your number. You are trying to take me somewhere. I do not want to go. Nothing that you give me to try to distract me with all of these good things that seem like they're good to make me relax is going to get me to come into agreement with you taking me captive. Okay, so these are dreams. And now I wake up and I'm like dang, these are two dreams in one week. This is very interesting. I haven't had a dream in a long time and the last dream I had that I can actually remember.

Speaker 1: 24:21

I was like rebuking something in the name of Jesus in my dream and I'm like, oh, that's always a good dream when you bring Jesus and you got your authority in your dream. You know so. But I'm like ding. So I wake up and I'm curious, and so here's what we do. Something happens, we have a dream or whatever, and then we go to a person. So what did I do? I went to somebody and I asked somebody who I trust you know, I don't go to just anybody, but somebody that I trust. And here's the mistake. Here's the mistake my people perish for lack of knowledge.

Speaker 1: 25:16

Quickly after I shared my dreams, and this person was very like telling me oh, what is God trying to tell you? Um, um, like, what is going on? Like, you know, are you doing something? Are you doing something? Are you doing something that's causing this? And I had to really like check this situation, this spirit, and I had to remember my authority in this moment. And so I actually went to the Bible. You know which I should have done first? First mistake is going to a human to try to get a revelation. That was not like.

Speaker 1: 26:09

You know what I'm saying Like let's not, let's not do that, let's go to let's, does God say, and the Lord really reminded me as I was sharing this, and even I went to my husband and I had to stop and I was like no, no, no, I really don't want to hear what any other human has to say about it, because what we do is catastrophize. It's our sin nature to catastrophize things. Well, you got to think about this and you got to think about this and you got to think about this. Now, the lies of the enemy are very, very complicated.

Speaker 1: 26:47

The word and the truth of God is very simple. Healing is very simple. Healing, transformation is simple. The truth is simple. But let me tell you lies and all of the stuff that the enemy offers is confusion, it's like overwhelming, it's fear, it's all of those negative things. But God is very simple. He's truth, he's goodness and he's joy and he's love. You know what I'm saying. So if something has you going down a road where you feel confused, fearful, that is the enemy's snare. It's a trap and it leads you to start investigating something you actually do not need to investigate. You don't need to open that door. God said hey, this is what God said to me. He said don't overthink it. You had these dreams, don't overthink it.

Speaker 1: 27:48

And then I go to the word and I'm looking at my scripture, my scriptures on sonship, and I'm like, okay, lord, don't overthink it. And then I come to Nahum Nahum, nahum, nahum, 1.7. And it says the Lord is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble. He knows those who take refuge in him. And I'm like, ooh, stronghold, stronghold, stronghold, stronghold.

Speaker 1: 28:19

Do I talk about stronghold? I talk about strongholds In strongholds. I also talk in the same sense of a stronghold being a mindset that is keeping you stuck, imprisoned. And what were my dreams? My dreams were like, oh, you're captive, you're prisoner, you're being taken, blah, blah, blah. I'm like this is so good.

Speaker 1: 28:43

And then I find out, oh, the Lord is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble, and he knows those who trust him. And then I looked up what stronghold meant, and I've done this before, but it's a good reminder to know what does stronghold actually mean? Stronghold is a place that has been fortified so as to protect it against attack. So we have a choice. The Lord said to me about these dreams don't overthink it. You have a choice. Are you going to build a stronghold that protects the enemy's attack against your mind? Are you going to build and trust in my stronghold. That says in Neom 1.7, the Lord is good and a stronghold in the day of trouble. Could I have like this is trouble. I had two bad dreams. This is trouble to me you know what I'm saying. Like it could be. But am I going to trust in the trouble and like really dissect this thing that actually is nothing. Or am I going to stand with the Lord and know he is good and he is my stronghold in a day of trouble? He's my fortress, he's my protection against attack and he knows those who trust him. So he's going to know if I'm trusting him or if I'm trusting the devil. He's going to know.

Speaker 1: 30:11

And then I have this book Fire Prayers and I'm like I knew I saw something about dreams. I remember it and I in fact did, and it says Prayers to Destroy Satanic Dreams. And let me tell you what this says. It says if the enemy can't sow Okay, I'll start from the beginning Satan likes the night shift not only to attack you outright, but also to sow demonic seeds in your dreams.

Speaker 1: 30:38

He wants you to entertain and cultivate those seeds so that they eventually bring the plans of his plans to pass in his, in the natural realm. The Bible shows how this works in the story of a farmer whose fields came under enemy attack While his men were sleeping. His enemy came and sowed seeds of resembling wheat among the wheat and went away. So when the plants sprouted and formed grain, the weeds appeared also. Matthew 13, 25 through 26. So here's the thing If the enemy can't sow bad seeds into your mind when you are wide awake, he will try when you are sleeping. He does it through tormenting demonic dreams that replay in your mind during the day and can wreck havoc in your life. Most people make the mistake of not cursing these dreams to the root. Then, instead of shriveling up and dying, they demand attention and cause worry.

Speaker 1: 31:45

This is out of John Ramirez's book Fire Prayers. I will link it in the show notes. Book Fire Prayers. I will link it in the show notes. Highly recommend this tool to take down the enemy.

Speaker 1: 31:59

But here's the thing, and I'm coming to an end and we're going to go deeper into these things in future episodes. I could talk to you all day about this, but I don't want to keep you any longer. My friend, my girlfriend, my amazing, beautiful sister, are you taking something that is made up maybe a dream you had or a lie you believed, and fortifying it as a stronghold and building a wall of protection against it for it. But it's actually the attack of the enemy to take you off kilter and away from your destiny. And can you break down the enemy's stronghold that's keeping you bound in your mind with lies, keeping you bound in your mind with lies? Can you believe?

Speaker 1: 32:54

Nehemiah 1.7 says the Lord is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble, and he knows those who trust him. This is seeking first the kingdom, and all will be added. We have to know our God, we have to know our King In this kingdom. He is good. In this kingdom he builds a stronghold, which is a fort, which is let me get it right which is a place that has been fortified so as to protect it against attack. He wants to build a fortified place around you that is protecting you from the enemy's attack. And here's the thing he knows those who trust in him. He knows. Does he know that you trust him more than the enemy? More than the enemy? Are you ready to push back the gates of hell that have put strongholds in your mind? That have put strongholds in your mind? These are the mind gates that are keeping you. You've got to take the territory in your mind Romans 12, 2,.

Speaker 1: 34:00

Do not be conformed to the world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Today is a good day to take authority and stand in place. Read the Bible, know the word, know the kingdom, know the king king, know your god, know your father, know that your daughter and you will be informed. So you will not perish because remember he said, my people perish from lack of knowledge. But but you, my friend, you, my sister, you, my girlfriend, are informed, and once you know something, you can't unknow it. So, girl, you are accountable to it.

Speaker 1: 34:45

I believe in you. I trust that this is going to land on soil that has been tilled and is ready. The seeds are going to be planted in your heart. That they would just start your roots to grow deep and you would take that time. That your roots are growing deep in the dark, because roots grow first and they're in the dark. That your hidden, secret place with the Father would reap such a great harvest of fruit that will be seen publicly that you will be a ripple in this world to share the good news in your testimony of transformation. Go make it happen. I pray that this was encouraging to you and I'm so excited to see you next week. If you did not catch the last episodes, girlfriend, go listen. They got some nuggets in there and I would love to know what you think. Leave us a review. Leave us a review and a five-star, detailed so I can see what you think. So I love you. Go be transformed and make it an amazing day.