Stop Trying to Fit Where God Never Placed You

On today’s episode of The Morning Charge, Joshua teaches on identity, healing, comparison, and finding your rightful place in Christ. Using the picture of birds singing their own song and puzzle pieces fitting into the bigger picture, this episode challenges listeners to stop reshaping themselves to fit places God never assigned them to occupy.

If you have been living from rejection, insecurity, comparison, father wounds, church hurt, trauma, or fear of being overlooked, this episode is a call to healing and alignment. God created you with purpose, design, sound, assignment, and place. Your job is not to become someone else. Your job is to become whole in Christ and take your place in the body.

Key takeaways from this episode:

• God made every person with purpose and specific design.
• The body of Christ functions like a symphony when each person stays aligned with the Lord.
• Comparison causes people to abandon their own grace.
• Unhealed people try to reshape themselves to survive.
• Healing helps your piece fit where God designed it to go.
• Your place in the Kingdom is found in Christ, not performance.
• Stop cutting on your piece and trust the One who made you.

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Transcript

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Welcome to the Morning Charge. This is your moment to slow down, breathe, and get your spirit aligned before stepping into the day ahead. Life moves fast, responsibilities pile up, voices compete for your attention. But before the noise of the world takes over, this is where we come back to what actually matters. This is a place for honest conversations about faith, life, purpose, and everyday battles we all face. No pretending, no religious performance, just the truth. Because following Jesus was never meant to be complicated, it was meant to be real. So whether you're driving to work, you're getting the kids ready, or simply taking a quiet moment for yourself, you're in the right place. This is real talk, real Jesus, real life. This is the morning charge. Lord, we just thank you for this morning. We say great is your faithfulness. Great, great, great is your faithfulness, Lord. That reminds me of that old song. I wanted to get it right. I didn't want to. But y'all know great is my thy faithfulness.

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Great is my faith is thy faithfulness. Great is thy faithfulness. Morning by morning, new mercies I see. All I have needed thy hand hath provided. Great is thy faithfulness, Lord unto me.

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Think of the lyrics. I know these songs are older. This song was written in nineteen twenty three, according to what I'm looking at. Oh, really, Sherry? I the whole time we were going through that other song, it's the exact song I was thinking too. But think of the the the lyrics to this song are real powerful. It's Great is Thy Faithfulness, O God my Father. It starts out with just praising him. There is no shadow of turning with thee. Thou changest not. In other words, thou that you don't change. Your compassions, they don't fail me. As thou hast as thou hast as thou hast been, thou forever will be. In other words, as you've always been, you're the same yesterday, today, and forever. Great is your faithfulness. Morning by morning, new mercies I see, all that I need your hand has provided. Great is your faithfulness, Lord, unto me. Brandy is like, what are you reading? I'm reading an old hymn from 1923. But the but these words of this song, yes, it's older and it's written like a Shakespearean play. But it really reminds us that he doesn't change, that his compassion is still the same, that he doesn't fail us, that he's always the same yesterday, today, and forever. And then we sing those songs. Great is your faithfulness, Lord. Everything that I need, you give to me. Your mercies are new today. Lord, you're so wonderful. And then it goes on to talk about Jesus and how we were pardoned of our sins and how we were given peace. And then there's there's one verse to the song where it's, you know, summer and winter and springtime and harvest. I mean, it doesn't, it doesn't matter what. We're in to join with all of nature in the manifold witness. In other words, we we join in with all of God's creation to give witness unto the Lord. Great is your faithfulness, your mercy, and your love. I mean, some of these songs are beautiful. Some of them are a little agonizing, but but there are some that are still just beautifully written like this. And honestly, it goes along with what I'm talking about today. And really, if I had to give this a title today, I would I would call it stop cutting your peace and find your place in Christ. Where where in the world am I gonna go with this? What does this mean? Well, as I was walking and talking with the Lord this morning, and I'm gonna be kind of all over the place because I tried to just write this out, this part, as I was getting it, because God was giving me from the moment I woke up this morning, he just began to speak to me and speak to me. And then I walked outside and I had my morning time with the Lord, and as I'm walking and talking, he's showing me things. So I really it was like walking and listening mostly today. But as I was walking and talking with him, I really started taking note of the birds. Now I listen to the birds every morning because in the morning, in the in the garden, I mean, yeah, hey, the cool of the day, Paul. That's I'm walking with him this morning, and I'm hearing the birds. I hear the birds every morning, but the Lord began to speak to me about something specific: that this is the most important part of my day. Walking and talking with him. This is the most important part of my day. When I miss that part of my day, it's like the whole rest of the day is just ah, it's just kind of thrown together. It's just kind of there. But when I take the time to spend time with my creator, to spend time with Abba Father, to give him praise and just thank him just for life and for giving me another day, he began to just be like, this is the most, the single most, this is the important most important part of your day. Because if you're not, if you're not in that secret place and you're not in that quiet place with him, it's like the rest of the day, it just kind of is what it is. And you're gonna you get mad. I get more mad, I get frustrated. I find that when I don't take time to spend time with the Lord, it's like something grounds you in that moment. When you're, when you're when you're taking time to read his scriptures and and you're taking time to give him honor and praise and thanks and just be in his presence, something shifts on the inside of you that carries you all throughout the rest of your day. I want to be in that place where heaven comes in and I put God back in the center of everything that I'm doing again before the noise of the day. It's like you you want you need to have that time before the noise of the day gets a chance to rush in. All of the uh obligations and the responsibilities and the things that come rushing in. You have got to uh you've got to start your day. Amen, Eric. You do that every morning at 4, 4 a.m. See, there's something that comes with that. And yes, you have to get up early, but when you do, he meets you in that place. He just blows my mind every single day you start it with him. Come on, bro. That's it. That's the thing. And this morning, as I'm just I'm thinking about how this is the most important part of the day, that if I don't have this, nothing else goes right. But I'm listening, and as I'm listening to the birds, and the sun began to shine. It's been really cloudy and rainy here lately. So the sun began to shine and it began to shine really bright in the area I was at. And it was just the moment I was just there with the Lord. The birds were singing. He began to show me some things as I began to just enter in and press into him this morning. And I noticed that the birds were all singing their song, but they're but if you think about the birds, they're all they're they're not all singing the same thing. They all have their own sound, and they all have their own little bird song, if you will. And and each one of them has their own sound. Each one of them has their own part, and and and one was not louder than the other one, and one was not, no, and one was not outdoing the other one. And and each one of them, they they stood in their their own different way as God had designed them, but all of them, but it's like there there wasn't a clash. All of them blended together beautifully, and you could understand the symphony of the Lord was singing outside. Yes. Oh, well, there you go, Sherry. It was like a symphony of the Lord was just was just singing. Even though each one of them carried something different, it all blended beautifully. And the Lord began to show me that that that that that is how people were meant to function. That's how that's how you and I were meant to function, that that each one of us were created uniquely in our own way. Each one of us carries something specific. Your life carries something specific. My life carries something specific. Each one of us has a part to play in the symphony of the Lord. See, the birds are just a that's just one species. But God created all of creation. And all of creation comes beautifully together. And then as I was just thinking about the symphony of the Lord and and all of that, I began to see another picture sort of come in front of me. And it was a it was it was a puzzle piece. If I had thought quick enough, I was a little, I mean, I've been a little later jumping on, but I was just getting all of this. So I'm I'm just sitting with the Lord this morning. I should have grabbed a puzzle piece, but it's you don't know what a puzzle piece looks like, and I'll have to solve one here on TT. All you live hosts know here in just a bit. Anyway, but the Lord showed me that when things are right in your life, when you're in right alignment, when you when you've when you have come into right alignment with him, when you when you understand who you are and whose you are, when healing has truly taken place in your life, when you're walking out your salvation every day, your peace fits beautifully in the place that God designated it to go. Some of you might be a cornerpiece, some of you might be a centerpiece, some of you might be off in the bottom left. But it's important that every piece comes together, because when every piece comes together in its rightful place, you can begin to see the true picture that God has given us. But then he showed me something else. Those who are still living from a place of hurt, from pain, insecurities, all right, comparison with others, you comparing your peace to somebody else's, all right, rejection, unhealed places that you still have in your heart. It's like, it's like what I saw was I saw somebody who was not happy with their peace. And I saw this person bend down in this vision and they picked up you ever seen a jigsaw? Oh, jigsaw puzzle, jigsaw. Okay, so as you, you know, you go around and you make the pieces to then put it back together. But I saw somebody come out with a jigsaw, and they started, they started cutting on their on their piece. And what they did is they started cutting on the puzzle piece to be what they wanted it to be. See, they weren't happy because life had come against them and things had happened, and and so now they they've got the jigsaw and they're they're hacking away at their puzzle piece. And they're and they're trying to look over here because they want their piece to look like that one's piece. I I want to look. They they they've got the perfect life, and they've got this going on, and they've got that, and they've got the things and the stuff and the and they seem happy, and the and I wanna I want my piece, it's gotta look like their piece. And what happens is they cut the piece and they're hoping they're gonna be able to place it in somebody else's spot. They're gonna be they're gonna they're gonna try to cut that piece so they can squeeze it into another place because they're not happy with the place that God placed them in. And sure, maybe maybe this puzzle piece it it it it looks like it fits. Cause it, you know, you've hacked away at it, you got the sandpaper at, and you've tried to you tried to make it something that it's not. And then when you try to put it in a place where another piece is supposed to go, and you step back and you look at the whole picture, well, everything around it blends in, and then you get to the one piece that's now sticking out like a sore thumb. If you were to look at that, it would be really painful to look at. Okay. It would be real, real painful to look at. Because see, that was that was never meant to be there. So this morning I want to I want us to talk about some really important things. All right, and this will be a podcast you'll want to share with some folks because you know what? I I'm all about talking about identity, about healing, about your placement in the puzzle of the Lord. And we need to talk about why you need to put the jigsaw down and stop cutting on your piece immediately. So let's look at some key points on this this morning. All right, that's that's kind of the setup. This is what the Lord began to show me. And and I already sort of had some scriptures and some things together because I've talked about puzzles and puzzle pieces before and how we all fit. All right, let's look at our key points this morning, shall we? God has made every single one of us with a purpose and with a specific design. He's made every single one of us to be if you are here and you are breathing and you are living and you are here, he has given you a specific purpose and a specific design. The truth of the matter is what's happened is life and the world has had its way with you, and situations and circumstances has had its way with you because you got to a point in your life somewhere along the way where you stopped fighting and you stopped going and you gave up. You're like a lost puzzle piece. But can I tell you you have a purpose in the grand scheme of the big picture of the Lord? I love using puzzle pieces. I love this analogy because it really puts things into perspective. Have you ever put that puzzle together and you got towards the end and you had one or two missing pieces? I've spent like five hours on this. Where is the piece? If you're like me, we're looking. I'm going through and we're going to try to find this puzzle piece. Of course, it may be in another box. Ah, see, that'll preach. You might be, you might have shoved yourself into another box. You ain't even supposed to be in that. But go back for a second, if you will. Let's think about the birds for a minute before I really jump into this. The birds were not confused about their sound. The birds are they're confident. They they understand the Lord. They weren't fighting for another bird's place. This one didn't want to sound like that one, except for the mocking bird, who can usually, I mean, that's why we call them the mocking bird. They can sing whatever. They then they pick up the other birds that they sing. Regardless of that, each one of them had their own place. Each one of them had their own sound. They weren't trying to change their sound so that they could be noticed. They were just out there being what they were created to be, flying, looking for food, singing their songs, enjoying life because they understand and they get that that God is going to take care of them today. They have no choice but to rely on their creator. Psalms 139. Psalms 139. There we go. Psalms 139. Verses 13 and 14, it says, You formed my innermost being. This is out of the passion. You formed my innermost being, shaping my delicate inside and my intricate outside, and wove them all together in my mother's womb. Do you realize how complex you really are? But he formed you, shaped you inside and outside, and he puts you together. I thank you, God, for making me so mysteriously complex. Everything you do is marvelously breathtaking. It simply amazes me to think about it. How thoroughly you know me, Lord. We we think he's left us and he's deserted us, and you know, I wouldn't be going through this if, if, if, and we forget that He knows, He knows everything about you. He knows all the insides, the outsides, the upsides, and the downsides. He knows it all. You were formed by God, you were made on purpose, you were not a random creation. He didn't just say although I do question things like the duckbell platypus, but that's another story. And I'm just being funny. But you were not made on accident. You were not some sort of an afterthought. You weren't you weren't put together with spare pieces. God intricately knows you. You were woven together inside and outside in your mother's womb. Ephesians 2 and 10, you are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works that he prepared way beforehand, before you were in your mother's womb. God created you intentionally, he created you on purpose. He didn't just make you just some ordinary general person. I'm just a general, oh you know. How you live your life determines how much stuff you're gonna get past, or how much stuff you're gonna keep. Veils, hurts, wounds. And that part, my friends, that is completely up to you. There's a better way. There's a book that tells us there's a better way. We can sit here and go through the scriptures that He knew us, He made us. But see, life came in and circumstances came in and began to beat you up. But this morning we need to be reminded that I mean, your personality, your the way that you're wired, your your your testimony, your journey, your calling, your strengths, I mean, even the way that he wants to to heal and use you, all of that matters. He knows where you are, he sees where you are, he sees what you're going through, and he's like, hey, if you just will trust me and not give up, I shall bring you into a better place. You were not created to be someone else. So stop the comparison. You weren't created to be this person or that person. And if you like what they have and you want what they have, then you too must go through the same cost that they went through. Because I can tell you that probably wasn't handed to them. We can come up with all kinds of things on where they're at and what they're doing and all these things. But if you sat down honestly with and asked them questions, if they were any type of a person, they would begin to answer those questions. Well, you got to start making some changes and you got to start being consistent. We're supposed to become whole in Christ before we can move forward with anything else in life. You have to be whole in Him, and you have to have your identity rooted and seated deeply in Jesus Christ. Nothing else is going to fall into place. The body of Christ, we are supposed to function like a symphony, just like what I saw from the birds this morning. They all molded together. And it's not like, I mean, I could, I could point out the different sounds that I mean, it's like an orchestra. You know, a tuba from a saxophone. Okay. You you you you just you can hear it. But when all of them come together, the flutes, the clarinets, the violins, the all of the instruments begin to play together. It makes a beautiful sound because they all mold together. The body of Christ is supposed to function just like a symphony functions. Romans 12, 4 through 6, it says that we are many members, but we are one body. We do not all have the same functions. Each one of us functions differently. Each one of our pieces are cut differently, but they all fit together. First Corinthians 12, 12 through 27. That's where Paul makes it very clear that the the body has many parts, and every part matters, but a foot can't be a hand, and a hand can't be a foot. All right, a nose can't be an eye. I mean, I can't go around looking with my nose. It doesn't work that way. Being different from someone else doesn't mean doesn't mean that God has made you any less of a person. Just because your gifting and your calling was not to do certain things. Stop trying to do the things that you weren't gifted and called to do. Stop trying to do those things. Stop trying to squeeze yourself into a spot. God has designed you to be who you are. The body only works beautifully when each part functions in its own grace that God has given you to function in the place that you were set in. The symphony can only work beautifully when each sound stays submitted to the what? To the conductor. And everyone, and you know what? Anything any of you have ever grown up, either in band or choir, or maybe you play in the local symphony or something. You know, the conductor is keeping time. And and each instrument has to stay. God is the conductor of our lives. So he is always, I mean, and you got to know where we are on the piece. I don't know any of you guys were ever in band. I played saxophone in the band. If you lost your spot and you Had to rest for 21 measures. One, two, three, four, two, two, three, four, three, two, three, four. Oh man. Okay. It's gonna be a mess when you jump back in. Unless you sort of understand and you've practiced many times. But when each sound stays in place, you come in when you're supposed to, you rest when you're supposed to. Symphonies, bands, they can all teach you a lot about life. When people know who they are in Christ, they stop fighting for position. When you know who you are, and you're comfortable in who you are, I hate using the word comfortable very much, but when you just, when you're so rooted and grounded in Christ, like you know who you are and you know your place, you stop fighting for other positions, you stop fighting for your position or whatever. Because you're you know who you are. When you know who you are in Christ, you stop competing to be seen. You stop striving to prove yourself to other people. There's no need for that. You stop needing to be louder than everybody else and shouting. Why? Because they know that their part matters. If you're rooted and seated in Christ, you know your part matters. You know where you are. You know who you are. Unhealed people try to reshape themselves to survive. And that's what I was talking about, the jigsaw coming up, and and I saw this person like cutting on their own piece. See, this is this is where this is where the rubber meets the road, so to speak. People who don't know who they are, or people who still live out of wounds and hurts, disappointments, they begin to come and they start cutting on their own piece. So I'm gonna reshape myself so I can be accepted. Well, this person is a certain way and they're accepted, so I need to sort of start looking like that, or I'm gonna reshape myself so that I'm noticed. I mean, you might take that puzzle piece and hack off a whole in. I mean, you're gonna get noticed. It's not gonna be for all the right reasons. Or they take the jigsaw and they start reshaping themselves. I'm gonna fit in certain places and I'm gonna, I'm, I'm gonna, I'm gonna create a different identity for myself and do some things so that I'm gonna be seen.

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God is like, that's not what I designed you to do.

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That's that's not what that's what I made you to do. Listen, we have all kinds listen. I mean, the real talk, real Jesus, real life. I mean, we have some people who born one way trying to be another way. Trying to create an alternate lifestyle, but we are, but we are all, we're all the puzzle of the Lord. God created you to be who you were meant to be. I can't be a lady. I can't be a mother. I don't I don't know how to do that. It wasn't instilled in me. That God did not create me to do that. I am a son and I'm a father. That's who I am, because that's the way that God created me to be. We we we have our own peace. God created you as who you are because it's who you are. What's happened is people have lost their true identity in Christ. You got to know whose you are and who you are so you can know what it is that you're walking out. Just being real. Why do people have false identities? Why are people trying to hack on their puzzle piece to create something that they're not? It's because of rejection. It comes down to insecurities. And I'm gonna be 100% honest with you. A lot of what you see in alternate lifestyles, which is how we have to say it on TT, but most of you probably pick up what I'm talking about. If you weren't a girl, now you're this, and the vice versa. Father wounds. Father wounds, father wounds, father wounds. Yeah, you might have some mother wounds as well. We went through crossing to freedom, y'all. Y'all should know this stuff. Father wounds. Paternity is something that's missing, especially in America. Approximately one in four children in America, that's around 18.3 million, 18.3 million children live without a biological step or adoptive father in the home. That's not just that many without their biological father. That's with no father. One in four children. I have eight children, so that would be like two of them not having a. I mean, do we understand this? And that just grieves my heart. That statistic grieves my heart. Do you hear me? Men, we have got to step up into our place because this is unacceptable. There's just no other way to put this. One in four children in America have absolutely no type of father figure in their life. Jen, not really sure about that particular statistic. I don't know if they rolled that into that study. That's something I could look at. Captions. I will have to go back over this study again. I don't remember that being seen, but I don't think they put specific circumstances. I think it was just if there was snow in the home. But still, these are the things that I look at, y'all. But a lot of people have these false identities. They don't know who they are. They're trying to make their puzzle piece be something that they're not because of rejection, insecurity, father wounds, church hurt. That's another whole different breed of itself being heard in church. All right. I want everybody to remember people run the church. Should be Holy Spirit-led, but there's people involved. I heard a friend of mine said one time if you find the perfect church, don't go because you're going to mess it up. In other words, we're all imperfect people. We're all on this journey. We should all be walking our road to healing. We should be living the scripture in Luke every single day. Deny yourself, pick up your cross and follow him every day. Okay. Comparison, trauma, jealousy, fear of being overlooked, wrong ambitions. These are all the things why people are trying to reshape themselves, why people are trying to uh recut themselves into something that they were never meant to be, or to be seen, or to be. There's deep hurt here. But if you're going through that, you have to be one that stands up and arises and makes a decision that no longer am I going to live like this. We can talk about this stuff here. You can hear this stuff maybe on Sunday mornings. I don't know. We talk about a lot of things that churches are talking about. We should be talking about these things. This is what brings people to healing. You have to understand these things. You got to walk through these things, and you got to hold people's hands through these things. 1 Samuel and 18, 1 Samuel 18, see, that's where this is Saul. This is like uh Saul being the best example about what I'm talking about here. He he could not celebrate David's grace on David's life because he was so insecure about his position. Insecurity began to make him very hostile. It's not a very good story. I know we went over that not long ago. Galatians 1 and 10. If you're living for the approval of people, you cannot fully live as a servant of Christ. All right, all these scripture references, and I'm giving you the little synopsis. We only got so much time on the morning charge. Sometimes I'll read it, sometimes I'll leave it to you. This will all be on the blog later today, okay? I'll try to have it up by 11. So 11 a.m., set your alarm. An unhealed heart will many times trade authenticity for acceptance. You're so focused on trying to be accepted till you've lost your authentic self. If you're authentic in who God created you to be, you're authentic in your relationship with Him, you're authentic in your identities, your true identities in Christ, you're going to stop looking for acceptance. The approval of man is what are you looking for? You're looking for somebody to be a mother. You're trying to have someone baby you and to get noticed. Well, can I tell you, your father God has already noticed you and he sees you, and it grieves his heart that you're remaining the same way you've always been. You're over here trying to get the approval of man. Stop that. We've got to stop that. If you're not careful, you're going to be, you're craving attention and things, and you gotta loving heavenly father. You have Jesus Christ that's got his hand held out, and he's like, when you get to the end of this, all you got to do is grab a hole. You get to the end of this, you grab a hole. When you begin to cut your own puzzle piece, it's as if you're saying, I don't trust, I don't trust, I don't trust that who God made me is good enough. So I need to become something else. I I don't trust the one who made me. So I'm gonna try to cut my peace to be something else. That's not gonna bring you peace. You are going to be the most miserable person, and nobody's gonna want to be around you. Nobody's gonna want to hear from you because of how you're acting and what you're doing. Comparison to other people makes people abandon their own grace. You see somebody else's gifting, ah, see somebody else's calling and them walking in it. You notice their platform. You see this a lot in the singing and uh performing arts arenas. It's you do see a lot of people who are very much seeking attention. But they see somebody else, they hear somebody else's voice, and they they see the platform that they're standing on, and they they see somebody else's opportunity and somebody else's assignment that they're running with, and they look all also successful. And and instead of thanking God for what he has put on the inside of them, they then begin to try to imitate what is on somebody else's life. 2 Corinthians 10 and 12 is where Paul warns us against comparing ourselves among others. Comparison blinds you to grace. Comparison makes you makes you despise your own assignment. Comparison is gonna make you crave being seen over being faithful.

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I gotta be seen, to be noticed, to be heard. I'm gonna stomp the loudest. Because you want to be seen based instead of being faithful with what God has given you. In John 21, 20 through 22, is where it's where Peter asked Jesus about John. And Jesus pretty much what he basically told him was, What is that to you? You follow me. What are you worried about him for? You need to worry about what you need to be doing. That's following me. See, that's you wanted a word that preached today. That's a word that preaches. This is right from Jesus. Stop obsessing over somebody else's lane and start running your own lane. Stay in your lane. I've said that phrase many times, especially in business. You got people trying to run in this lane. I need you to run in this lane. If you ain't running, if you're running in their lane, they can't run in their lane. You stay in your lane and do what you do, they'll stay in their lane and do what they do, and everything beautifully works out. It works out great. Comparison will make you abandon your place to chase somebody else's place, a place that was never your own to be in. And that, my friends, is when you've entered into a life of striving. See, this is where striving comes from. You're running somebody else's race. And the Lord's like, I need you to run the race I've given you. Now we begin to flip things a little bit. I want to talk about healing. Healing is going to help that piece that God has given you fit perfectly in the puzzle. When healing has taken place, when alignment has come to your life, and when you know who you are and whose you are, your piece fits perfectly where it was designed, exactly in place, because healed people don't force anything. Healed people don't perform. Healed people, uh they stop pretending to be something that they are not. Healed people stop chasing, stop, stop chasing after rooms they were never called to occupy. Hello? We could say it that way. Healed people stop twisting themselves to be seen and to be heard, to be loved. Psalms 147 and 3. Psalms 147 and 3, he heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds. Isaiah 61, 1 through 3, as the the anointing of the Lord brings what? What does that tell us? It brings healing, it brings freedom, beauty for ashes, it says. Joy for mourning. Healing does not just make you feel better, it helps you fit in your place. It helps you to fit rightly. That's what healing does. There's no striving, there's no pressing, there's no pushing, there's no cutting, there's no sanding. He is the one that puzzled out your piece and handed it to you. We all hold our peace in our hands. And what we do with this piece is what makes the matter, which makes our lives matter. So it makes it so where you can live it according to kingdom standards or just be a mess. It is amazing. What God does. You know, we are the only from what I have read and studied, we're the only bit of God's creation that worry. The birds don't worry. The rest of creation doesn't worry. Everything is already instilled in them. They just trust. Animals have no choice but to trust. The trees and the plants, they have no choice but to trust and to grow. We are the only bit of God's creation that worry. Even go through things like this. Which is why this is so important to us. See, he's given us a choice. He cut your piece out and handed it to you. What are you gonna do with it? Are you gonna take it, understand who you are, give it back to the Lord and put yourself in place and be in right alignment? Or are you gonna try to hack on it and and and make something out of it that it's not? Unhealed people, they settle for things. Well, this is the way it is. The way it's gonna be. Unhealed people try to force themselves in places they don't need to be at.

SPEAKER_02 38:06

Healed people though, they know how to flow. They know how to go with the flow. Unhealed people, they compete. Heal people, they contribute.

SPEAKER_01 38:26

Inner healing matters much to the kingdom of God. Getting what's on the inside correct. Getting past see, you you didn't you didn't have a choice. When you were growing up as a child, maybe you had a a bad childhood. Parents that didn't care, they neglected, you went through different situations, nobody to talk to. Life came your way and circumstances came your way. And yes, those things happen, and yes, those things are real, but you're living in a new day today where you need to forgive and be forgiven, and you need to stand up, and you need to arise and shine and say, I am not carrying that down any more generations, and I break off all generational curses and I'm moving forward. When you begin to take those steps and you begin to declare those things out of your mouth so much that your feet line up with what you're saying, now God has something to work with. Your place in the kingdom is found in Christ. It's not found in performance. A lot of people are trying to earn a place that can only be received through having right identity in Christ. Colossians 2, 9 through 10. You are complete in him. John 15, 4 through 5, abide in him. Fruit does not come from striving, fruit comes from abiding in him. You do not find your place by performing. You find your place by abiding in Christ. You don't have to be the loudest, you have to be the one that is rooted and grounded. When you remain close to Jesus, he does several things we see all throughout scripture. Once again, recap notes, coming to the Branjo Collective blog here in just a little bit, okay? But when you stay close to Jesus, he reveals who you are. He heals what is broken, he prunes what is not supposed to be there. He strengthens when he begins to prune, then he can strengthen what is real and what should remain. And he aligns you with your true place. The secret place is where identity gets restored and becomes settling in your life. If you're not in the secret place, I don't know what to tell you. That is why your morning walk with the Lord matters so much. That is why your time with him in the mornings means so much. That is why you need to spend time in the secret place in his word, listening to his voice. It means more than you'll ever realize until you start doing it. See, those are the times when it's like a you you get tuned in again. Like the old dials on the radio. Remember, you kind of had you had to get it just in the sweet spot. Everything's digital now. You just it just pops into place. But you used to have to get that dial just right. And when you got it just right, that crystal clear stereo would come through. There's a lot of people walking through with a lot of static in their lives. And you're just, you're just you're just off the frequency. You need to get you need to get a hold of that dial and start turning some things again. You want your heart to come back in alignment with the Lord, in alignment with heaven. If you're going to be a KCA, as we call them, kingdom change agent here on the earth, then you got to be in proper alignment.

SPEAKER_02 42:04

This is this is important stuff, y'all.

SPEAKER_01 42:10

One other key point I want to give you on this this morning is the Lord puts people in the body where he wants them to be. First Corinthians 12 and 18, God has set, he set the members, each one of them, in the body just as he pleased, is what the word tells us. That's I mean, that's something we need to really pay attention to, something we really need to look at. The members weren't set in place as people had pleased, not as not as comparison pleased, not as not as ambition pleased. No, no, it said as he pleased, as he pleased. People were set in the body. Your place is not self-assigned. Your place is God assigned. The places that God has set you should be God assigned. When you realize this, humility and peace come to your life. Humility comes because you do not get to force yourself in a position. When you're humble, you're you're where you're need, well, you're where you need to be. You're doing what it is needs to be done, what God has called you to do. So humility comes because you don't get to force yourself in. Peace comes because because you you don't have to. So stay humble and peaceful. And God does it. He just does it. If God has placed you, you get to rest in his grace in that spot. If God has called you, you can stop striving for something. If God is the one that has assigned your part, you can stop cutting on your peace.

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Put the jigs. Saw down.

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Look at what God perfectly gave you. And make sure you're popping into place where you need to be. Your salvation is something that you walk out every day. Because when healing takes place and you're walking out your salvation every day, your peace fits. It fits. Philippians 2, 12 through 13. Work out your salvation with what? With fear and trembling, for it is God who works in you. If you're walking out your salvation, you're doing it with fear and trembling, and God is working on the inside of you. This let's let's make this clear. I say it all the time. Salvation is not something you earn. Salvation is something that is given, and then it is something that you live out every single day. Let what God has done inwardly be worked out outwardly. God, what your fruit is what is shown out here. So whatever he's walking in, whatever he's working on in here should be shown out here. Daily walking, daily spending time with Jesus, it is what keeps your life in alignment with your true identity in him. No striving, no pressing, no pushing. Spend time in the secret place. That's why you can't just, you can't just be in it to win it on Sunday. This has to be a daily surrender. You need to be praying daily, you need to be listening daily, you need to be obedient every day. You need to deny yourself, pick up your cross daily, and follow him. Anybody who comes after me, this is what you must do. That's what Jesus tells us. But when every piece is whole in a line, the beautiful picture is seen. The beauty is not that everyone is the same. Think about it for a minute. The birds I was hearing this morning, the symphony that the Lord was showing me, the puzzle that God was showing me. The beauty is not that everyone is the same. The beauty is that everyone is rightly aligned so the big picture comes across. Heaven doesn't need a whole bunch of clones to be the same person, the same thing, the same way. What heaven needs is healed sons and daughters who know who they are and whose they are. Healed sons and daughters that are willing to take their place with clean motives, clean hands, surrendered hearts, pure hearts. And it's built up in love. Some of you this morning need to put the jigsaw down. It's time to put the jigsaw down. You need to stop cutting on your peace. I mean, some of you have just hacked away at this thing. The Lord is the one that has He now He comes and restores. I just there may be some people saying, Josh, what if I've cut my peace so much? How in the world am I going to be able to? He is the God of restoration when you come humbly before him and he begins to reshape and put your peace back together. But once he does and he gives you that peace and he hands it to you, what are you going to do with it? Are you going to trust with what you have? Are you going to trust him with what you have now and put yourself down in the big picture? Are you going to remain the same and just hack away on that one the way you've been going? Stop trying to reshape yourself to fit places that God never assigned you to go in. Stop trying to sound like everyone else. Stop trying to wear somebody else's grace and look like somebody else. Stop trying to be seen with motives that are not healed. Let him heal you again. Let him align you where you're supposed to be and let him remind you of who you are and whose you are, the whole heartbeat message of the morning charge. Your identity. That's it, Apostle. He's the master builder. He knows how to reconstruct you. He constructed you. You're the one that came in and remodeled, not knowing how to build. Now he's got to come in and restructure you. You have to trust him with all of the details. Because I want you to know your sound matters. What God has bestowed upon your life matters, your assignment matters. But it only becomes beautiful when it is surrendered to the Lord and it's aligned with heaven and the kingdom of God. So, the questions, you know, I give you questions. Where have you been trying to cut on the puzzle piece of that you have been given? Are you trying to fit into places that God never assigned you to be in? And then you need to assess the wounds and the insecurities that are making you compare yourself to other people. What are these veils over my eyes? What are these wounds that I have in my heart? And Lord, I want to better understand the life you have for me because it ain't their life and it ain't their life. This is mine. And it's what you have given me. And you're the one that's formed and fashioned me. So, Lord, show me my unique sound in the symphony that you have here on this earth. Show me how the piece fits with all the other pieces, the body of Christ. And then just get in his presence and say, Lord, help me understand your ways. And then you're going to begin to walk out your true identity in him. That's today's morning charge. Before you move on with your day, take a moment and let what you've heard settle into your heart. Faith isn't just something we talk about, it's something we live out in the ordinary moments of everyday life. Wherever today takes you, remember this. You don't walk into it alone. God is already ahead of you, working in ways you may not even see yet. Stand firm, walk in wisdom, lead with love, and don't forget who you belong to. Until next time, keep your heart anchored, keep your faith strong, and keep living out real talk, real Jesus, real life. We'll see you on the next morning charge.