The Wounded Warrior
Faith Based podcast built around the Wounded Warrior herself, Amazon Best Selling Author LeShawn Fernandez. LeShawn speaks of faith, spirituality and breaking generational curses through ministry, therapy and self-accountability
The Wounded Warrior
You Are Royalty
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1 Peter 2:9 (NIV)
Broken victory is mine. Y'all see me, y'all see me, y'all see my crown. I hope y'all got a job crying on women. We are queens and kings. I know the men ain't gonna put no crown on, so we're gonna we go wear out, we're gonna rock ours for them, okay? All right, y'all already know before we get started. We gotta say a prayer. Remember, if you're driving, stay focused on the road. We got you in prayer. All right, clothing mind. The heavenly most gracious father, father, we come to you again, Lord, thanking you for another day's journey, Lord. We just give you all the glory, all the honor, all the praises due to you, Lord. Father, we just seeing people transitioning off this earth left and right. We just see massive destruction left and right. But Lord, one thing we can say, those of us that's on the live right now and go do the replay, Lord, you got us. You keeping us, protecting us from all harm. The enemy is getting more clever by the day. But in spite of, Lord, you got us and you hold us close in your arms, protecting us from danger seen and unseen. And we thank you, Lord. We just give you all the praise, all the glory. Lord, I'm asking right now, Lord, whatever sister, brother need right now, Lord, you meet them at their need. Heal them, Lord. Forgive them, Lord, for their shortcomings, for we all fall short. And sometimes that lost soul just don't even know how to ask for forgiveness. We're living in a day and time where people just out here just being a snake. Heal them too, Lord. Show them their wickedness in spite of what they don't see or believe they're doing wrong. Help them understand, Lord, that they gotta seek you and get to know you because going to church don't make you save. Having a pastor is not gonna get you to heaven. Doing right by people is what's gonna get us there. Help us understand we gotta give more love and unity, not division that's needed on this earth. But I just give you all the praise, all the glory, and I ask as you exude through me tonight. You give this message where it blesses the soul on tonight. I exceed in all blessings. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen and amen. All right, y'all. Thank y'all for coming on, beautiful people. I hope y'all had a great day. In spite of all right, so I'm coming from 1 Peter 2 and 9, NIV. But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God's special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. Let me just stop right there for a moment. See, we are kings and queens, beloved. God took us out of darkness and brought us into his pure light. What are you talking about? Let me break it down. See, we all come into this world, we all fall short of sin. But remember, Jesus Christ went to Calvary for our sins, not his own. He sinned not. Perfect, the only perfect being that walked this green earth. There's not another, never will be another perfect being. But he forgave us, and he still forgives us day in, day out. Let me, I got some notes here, so let me go and elaborate a little bit more. See, Peter highlights here from being in darkness, meaning sin, and our being ignorant to who we are and God in light, salvation. Salvation is the truth. Salvation is that light. The letter was originally addressed to believers, often interpreted by the Jewish believers of the church as spiritual Israel dispersed in the Greco-Roman world, reminding them of their new identity in Christ. See, once you heal, you become a new creature in Christ, you transform, always pass away, and all things become new. And we all, the children of God, are heirs to the royalty, king of kings and lords of lords, right? Your heir to that priesthood, your heir to that royalty. God did it for us. We do it for ourselves, and we gotta walk in that authority, we gotta walk in that identity. We're not just your everyday people that they want us to think we are, we royalty, baby. We kings and queens, and we gotta live in it. Christians are identified as chosen, a royal priesthood, having direct access to God, a holy nation set apart and God's special possession. See, a royal priesthood, access to who? God Himself. We got direct access. We don't have to have a third party, we got direct access to him, a holy nation set apart and God's possession. I don't know about you, but I'm glad to be God's possession because we take care of ours, right? So imagine that God takes care of his possession, he takes care of us. We ain't got a want for nothing. We don't hurt like they want us to hurt, yeah. We life or life, but when we got God, he brings us through because we gotta go through in order to get through, just like a storm. That storm gotta come through, it's washing away a lot, and when it's done, it's a disaster most times, a mess. But after they clean it up, whoo, and they restore what it was, they'd be. I ain't never seen one time there was massive destruction, and they didn't make it better than the original format, just like Katrina. I'm from NOLA, I remember when it happened, and I was going there all the time because my parents were living then, so I was going to check on them, make sure they were good. So I seen it at its worst. And when I go now, because I don't go where I was raised all the time, but just to go when I do just go drive through there, it's better than what it was when I was growing up in most areas. That just goes to show you, transforming into that king and queen that you was always called to be. The purpose, the goal of this status is to declare the praises or proclaim the excellence of God, referring to sharing the gospel and reflecting his goodness. Peter highlights the transition from being into sin and ignorance to marvelous lights. See, 1 Peter 2 and 9 is defines believers as a chosen people, not just for the royal priesthood, a holy nation, and God's special possession, call out of darkness into light to proclaim his excellence, but the verse highlights the identity of who you were always called to be when God incarnated you on this green earth, you just was conditioned and programmed to think differently, and it's okay you didn't know. God don't hold us accountable for what we don't know, He tell us we perish because lack of knowledge. The word tells us that. So once the knowledge is brought to you, how you gonna move? How you gonna live? How you gonna respond? Because you're gonna find people come up against you all day, every day. They're gonna try you just to try. Because Satan works, he don't stop, and if you think Satan don't use everyday people like you and me, you greatly mistaken. You'll think they're your friend, you'll think they're your lover, you'll think they're your business partner, even family. Make it think, don't it? People go be people, but we can't allow people to stop us for being who we were called to be and do the work God called us to do. Because nobody puts no money in your bank account. Do they now they're your spouse? That's different. So I want y'all to think about that. You gotta stop people pleasing, stop God pleasing, because God the one gonna make sure you're good. Any and everything you need, He will provide. You think He got all the names for nothing? Yahweh, the divine, the Most High God, the great I Am, the Alpha, the Mega, the beginning and the end, Jehovah, Jarah, Jehovah, Nissan, Jehovah, Raphael. Don't get me started, child. God's good, baby, and every name when you say, you just feel it, it resonates, and you can feel the royalty. You set apart, you set apart, you're not average, you consider a child of a king, making you royalty by birth, not just behavior. You were born into this. You got to change your mindset, it requires thinking and acting with confidence, strength, and authority, ruling by decree, decree and declare. God gave you authority, dominion over everything. Now, He wants you to be good stewards. He don't want you to be arrogant and have the big head. Some people might say, Oh, she's arrogant, she's so kind. Well, you're supposed to be confident. Arrogance and confidence, two different things, they're not the same. Don't let nobody fool you. People don't want you to know who you are, they don't want us you to step into your purpose because once you step into your purpose, you are powerful being. You're that spiritual being, you were called down here to be and be on this green earth to help others achieve and conquer who they're supposed to be. There's greatness in each and every one of you, and don't let nobody tell you otherwise. God didn't call us to be poor in the poor house. Where's that in the word? Now, if you worshipping that money, that's a whole different thing. You selling your soul for that dollar, that's another topic. We gotta stop allowing people because they don't want you to get so far up because they like you right here. If you go too far up, that it's a problem for them. Don't worry about them. If you think Jesus walked this earth and people that mock him, make fun of him, talk about him, you in for a rude awakening. That's just like me. I know people might think I'm I don't care. I was called crazy when I was a teenager. I could care less now. I'm crazy for God, so that's a good thing. I got a good reason to be called crazy now. All I'm doing is plant seeds to help the masses awaken from this deep sleep. We all supposed to be brothers and sisters, we should be coming together in unity. Why is everything so divided? That's what the enemy wants. Kill, steal, and destroy. I'm not here to force God on nobody, I'm just planting seed. You want to wake up? That's fine. You don't. I just know I gotta do my part because when I leave this green earth, I want my heavenly father to say, Well done, my faithful servant, well done. And he welcomed me back in to glory with open arms. That's all I figured it out after healing, and now I'm helping others. And if you notice, the enemy coming on strong and strong nowadays. Notice that he's on a mission, he knows it's time winding down, he knows we're in revelations. Pay attention to revelation, everything coming to pass, everything revelations speak of is happening, and no matter what, always remember this too, beautiful people. There'll never be none before God, and there'll never be none after God. See, your royalty signifies holding a position of immense work, dignity, and spiritual authority, often referring to being a child of God, a core heir with Christ, a part of a royal priesthood. Remember, core heir with Christ. See, as we heal, we awaken the Christ consciousness. You think when Jesus walked this earth, he symbolic walked this earth to show us how to we need to walk, live, love, and be there for one another. That wasn't a coincidence. When you have that relationship with God, you have that relationship with God for yourself, nobody, not your big mom, not your pastor, not your teacher, nobody can tell you about God and what God wants for you better than God. See, you gotta have that intimate relationship with God, you and Him. It's kumboom. That's nothing like it, nothing like it, beloved. See this peace and joy I have now that's the past all understanding. He'll never have me go backwards, never, and I can honestly, people always just said never said never. Oh, I can tell you never, baby. It took a long time for me to get here, and I love it. I love the woman I've become, and still growing into. I post my videos to show y'all just who I was a few years back. Confidence, and everybody like, I can't believe he always was confident. Confidence in business and confidence in who you are, it's two different things because I didn't know who I was, I was letting others dictate who I was. I didn't know I was a queen. I used to wear these things, of course, not this big one. Uh, I used to have to wear tieras all the time. People probably thought I was crazy. I didn't care, they didn't know why I was wearing. I wore it until I believed I was a queen. God kept telling me I was because God kept telling me I'm a queen. I'm like, oh Lord, and I'm just like doubting because of everything I've been through in life, but everything I've been through prepared me for the woman I am today, it strengthened me, it didn't weaken me. See, we go through things to strengthen us to help us evolve because we can't get nowhere if we don't evolve we stag. And I know for me, I don't like being snagged, but it all starts in the mind, it all starts with healing, it all starts with understanding that life happens to all of us. How you respond to it, how you react. We have consequences for our behavior. Don't think just because you did someone wrong, you go get away with it, you might get away with it today, amen. You might get away with it tomorrow. But I want you to understand this, and this is how God, a lot you can look at it as God's revenge, karma. It doesn't really matter how you look at it, but I'm gonna tell you something. The way God created this universe, whatever seeds you plant, whether they're good or bad, they got a harvest, it's a circle, it gotta come right back around to you. So if you plant good seeds, good seeds go always return. You plant bad seeds, bad seeds go return. It has to, and so many people think they're getting away with stuff. Baby, you ain't getting away with nothing, because what you don't understand. God is all seeing and all knowing. And it's coming back. That's why our nation is where it's at today. That is like, how long? He didn't let this go on long enough. And now he's letting it all be torn down. And when he comes back, you just watch and see. We serve a powerful, almighty God. He ain't no little guy. He's a big God. That's why I don't play small. My God ain't small. He's a big guy with big blessings. And he makes sure minds and myself is always protected and good. Because you'll always have someone praying against you. And I'm not talking about P R A Y. That's the enemy. We gotta rebuke him, keep moving, and then keep soaring. So going back to the mindset, you really have to change your thinking, change how you respond. You even have to remove yourself from certain people, even if you don't want to. God gonna keep allowing people to do you certain ways. And you're like, Well, that God is a loving guy. Well, God keeps trying to show you, you don't want to listen, so He got to show you better than He can tell you, just like we do with our kids. We constantly tell them, don't do that, Johnny. Johnny, don't do that. And Johnny keeps doing it. And finally say, Okay, Johnny, you're gonna have to learn better than I can tell you. So, what makes you think God he didn't he say make us in his image and like it? Where you think we get it from? People just don't want to hear the truth, and I'm fine with people not wanting to hear the truth that ain't gonna stop me from speaking the truth. I've always been one, even when I was partaking in the world. I used to tell my friends, you don't want to know the truth, don't tell me nothing. And if they didn't want to know the truth, they didn't tell me. Because I always been one that always had to tell the truth. That's just something that I don't know. I guess it was just God instilling that in me. Just being a truth teller, because at the end of the day, you know, why tell a lie? You gotta remember that lie, you ain't gonna remember that lie, and why be fake to be like that the person you like and trying to be like by don't even like themselves most of the time. So y'all both don't like yourself and you trying to be like them, they try uh, uh-uh, uh-uh. Make that make sense. As the young kids say, the mat ain't matten. We gotta wake up. We gotta do better as a people, as a nation. Because we can't say we one nation under God and you got all this foolishness going on. What God you under? It ain't my God, which is our heavenly father, because he's not with with with the shenanigans, he's not with your um what is it? I can't even remember. I'm not I used to watch him the housewives of hip. I can't remember now, y'all. In the Jerry Springer show, y'all know where I'm going. That just goes to show you my old taste has left upon my healing journey, even down to the point of certain foods. I can't eat certain foods I used to eat. Everything just just changed. My my my taste buds for food, my taste buds for people, my taste buds from places I used to go. No, all things become new. This is why it's important we sit with God ourselves. This is why it's important we knock to the what the words say, knock, and the door shall be open. Ask, and it shall be given. We all need to seek knowledge, wisdom, and understanding. They're not the same thing, beloved, they're not. If it was the same, God wouldn't allow it to be wrote that way, and and I I constantly tell y'all all the time, I hear so many people say that Bible was written by man, okay. That Bible is written by man, but it was inspired by God. That car was built by man, but God inspired that man to come up with the brains to build that car, and I can go on and on. We gotta stop making excuses for why we don't want to know the truth. Just say you don't want to know the truth. I'd rather you say that. Because nobody knows the day nor the hour. Our Heavenly Father will call us back home. Believe me, you don't know, and you won't know. You just gotta pray and get it right. And if this day and time you don't see that it's more important for you to get right than ever, something wrong. Something is seriously wrong because it's definitely not a joke. Just look all around us. Times have changed, the world has changed, and if you don't want your royalty seat, God ain't gonna force you to take it. He just wants you to know this is your birthright, you earn that title, you his shop. We're warriors, we're not survivors, we're not victims, we're warriors. Yes, we go through so much in life, but you made it through. So pick up your crown, put it on, and and watch how your life just gets better. Declare and decrease your your open door season. God gave you dominion over everything, but he also wants you to balance and be a good steward over everything, and just don't forget where you come from, and help someone else along the way so they can take their crown, put it on, or even you know, from the beginning of my energy, I had to fix my crown all the time. The crown was getting crooked, it wouldn't stay straight from the life of me. This ain't for me. But when you tell yourself that, that's what you're gonna get. That's just like the yesterday. Matter of fact, I got up, I didn't want to, I just was not feeling. I was um I said I was exhausted, I was exhausted. Now, of course, I went to bed early last night. I was thinking I was in the bed by nine o'clock, might have been before that. That's early for me. I still be working, but I was so tired yesterday, and I didn't want to get up. And I said, get yourself up, and me after I pray, I have to listen to upbeat music, it gets my morale going because you know, music is therapy, it's good therapy, it stimulates the mind. Once the mind stimulates it, it gets the body in action. Now you listen to something down and out. I'm sorry, it your mind go give you just what you asked for, so that's why it's important to change your mindset, change your thinking, your thought processes everything, and then change your environment of the people you communicate with. If you see they're not trying to go where you're going, or you see there, I'm not gonna say because everybody's not envy of us. Some people just scared, and it they want you to be scared, and what did God say? He did not give us the spirit of fear, they don't want to go along this journey with you, they wasn't part of your journey. We have to learn the gift of releasing that's a gift because we want to hold on to everybody because for most of us, those of us that's been abandoned or rejected, we just will hold tight. Soon we got somebody and they they seem like they don't want to leave, they don't want to leave for a reason. You're benefiting them. But did God tell you they were supposed to be on this journey with you? Are they seasoned up? Everybody got different seasons in your life, some for a reason, a lesson, and a lifetime. You won't know if you just stuck on, you gotta hold on to them and not let them go. Understand that, beloved. God really wants us to use this beautiful mind He gave us. We gotta put it in action and put it in work. As y'all can see, I'm very passionate about doing God's work now. But when you see me in the beginning, I was like, God, just leave me in the church behind where I'm not seen. I couldn't tell God because when I tell you, God kept me this last time I had to make sure I sat down and healed and kept my promise with God. Because I told God, if he got me out of that situation, now I'm gonna just be very transparent without going into full detail. If he got me out of that marriage, he don't ever have to worry about me again, being disobedient, doing it Sean's way, in the way, because that's all I was doing, being in the way, who better know my life than the one who created me now. Was it easy? No, because with so many years of hurt, pain, abuse, you have to reprogram the mind, the nervous system is out of whack. Even the love emotional signals was just don't even talk about that. You're like a crazy person, a mad person. Because that's all you knew, so you thought that's all it was, but that's not what God had for us. That's what we were conditioned and programmed to believe from the environments we've been in, from the people we chose today, marry, love, and business partners, or even friends. No, and then soon something go wrong. Who do we blame? God, God ain't do it. Why are you blaming God? People did it, and most of the time it's hurt people that hurt people, and you can't can't argue with me on that one. I used to be that same hurt people that hurt people now. I understand, and I'm just loving because I know what it's like, you don't know what it's like if you ain't never been hurt, abused, or went through something tragically. Spare some people some grace because God spared us all grace and mercy, and none of us deserve it. None of us, even the people that oh, I I didn't do this, I we all fall short. Some people just in denial, ain't nothing right. Hey, that's that's between you and God. My job is not to judge, but I just don't like others judging others when we all have different flaws, we all have different sin. All sin is sin to God, ain't no sin worse than the other to God, sin is sin. But before I close tonight, I just want y'all to understand heal, get to know God, let go, let God, and if you know you're not appreciated and valued, let that person go. Let them be great in my book. That's my favorite line. Let them be great. That's that's a motto I came up with on this healing journey. I'm gonna let them be great, no matter what it is, whether it's business, personal, let them be great and wish them all the best. Please don't try to do tick for tat. But one thing I learned, God's vengeance. You have to say, and I'm just telling you, I had to say a couple times, Lord have mercy on they soul. Because see, you can't mess with God's and think you're gonna get away with it. God don't play about us, his children, he don't play about, so you gotta be careful who you're messing with. You really do, because that ditch you digging for me or somebody out, it'd be the same ditch. God had you be trying to get out if you can get out, so be careful what you do to people, how you treat people, and always remember when you're walking around and you say you're a child of God, you're Christian. Remember that meaning should be Christ-like. You should be walking in the path that Christ walked in. You'll never be perfect, but he walked in love, he always came in peace. He breathed life into people. How he just brought things together in harmony, that's why you just can't go around just messing with folks because you don't know what folks you're messing with. Because if it's God's, as they call it, chosen ones, you're playing with fire, and if you never see fire exploded, it's dangerous. So we're gonna leave tonight. We know who you are, become who you are, let go of all those negative ways, toxic ways, dysfunction ways. Release them, do whatever you gotta do, but let them go. Go to God, pray, and this is what I want to let y'all know too. Don't ever think you're too cute to get on your knees and pray just because you're grown, don't mean you're too cute to be. Sometimes you gotta meet God on your knees, and you don't have to be on your knees to pray, pray all the time. But sometimes you gotta go on your knees and cry out to God, it ain't easy down here because this world is full of so much chaos. That's right, you gotta humble yourself, that's right, and that's the key word. Most people don't want to come in humble. You want credit for everything, you want to just be almighty. At the end of the day, you wouldn't have done what you did if it wasn't for the God that dwells in you, that exists through you. Be humble, be understanding, be patient. God, all that, he's all that with us. You know how many times we probably got on God's nerve and still do. Make you think, don't it? But I just pray my word help someone on tonight, help a few people understand that there's no relationship like a God relationship. That's right. Some people play Christian to gain the audience, but not truly believers. That's why God tells us test the spirit by the spirit, your discernment, the spirit of discernment gets stronger the closer you get with God. You're gonna notice things that others might not notice. That's why it's important we have that relationship with God. Because then your God like pause really kick in. People be like, who is she? Who is he? That's the God that dwells in them and exudes through them. But we're gonna talk about that another day. We're gonna let that go because that's a whole nother podcast, baby. But anywho, I hope y'all enjoyed your favorite gathering night. Woohoo! And I got my crown on y'all. I'm about to take it all now. But hey, I hope y'all enjoyed this message. I hope y'all got something from it. I hope y'all release, let go, and stop paying attention to people, y'all. Stop letting people play you. You better than that. You royalty, baby. Let's go, king and queen. Let's pray. Dear Heavenly Most Gracious Father, Lord, I come to you tonight saying thank you. Thank you for the word you gave me, Lord. I accidentally blessed one of my brothers and sisters. Help them understand that people go be people, but at the end of the day, you will be all God, God Almighty, all by yourself. You don't Need no audience and you don't need no helping hand. You got it all under control. We just need to trust you. Let go of you and understand that you got all power. All power in your hand. And also let those that don't understand know that you can't play with your children, Lord. I give you all the praise, all the glory, all the honor. It all belongs to you. And the only name that has power in heaven and all my name. In Jesus' name. Amen. Until next week, beloved. Bye-bye.
SPEAKER_00I didn't fall apart in public. I fell apart alone, where no one could see. My mind became a place I was afraid to be. Every thought felt like an attack, and the silence was louder than any scream. I believed in God, but I didn't understand why I was hurting like this. I prayed and still felt broken. There were moments I didn't know if I had the strength to keep going. Moments where surviving felt harder than quitting. That's when I realized something. I didn't need to be ashamed. I needed to fight for my mind. I learned how to confront the pain, how to face the thoughts, how to heal without pretending. This book tells the truth about that fight. I didn't just survive mental anguish, I broke free from it. If your mind has been a battlefield, if you've been fighting in silence, you are not weak. You are a warrior. Because healing is possible, and your story isn't over.