Fearless One with Nerissa Golden
Ep 3 - Live Blessed Now

What would your life be like if you chose to get up every day not just declaring but knowing you are blessed?
Hi I am Nerissa Golden. Host of the Fearless One podcast. I am an author, strategist, mom, entrepreneur, and lover of Jesus Christ.
I get a kick out of helping my friends and clients unlock the value in their gifts and business and for the next few minutes I want to encourage you to do the same. Let’s go!

Hello Fearless One...
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Today, let’s talk about living blessed now.
In Genesis 1:28 the first part of the verse says And God blessed them.
That is our default state. Blessed.
To be blessed is to be the object of God’s favour. Doesn’t that sound amazing?
Over the years, you might say hello to someone who is a Christian and you ask them how are you and their response is: I am blessed.
I’ve got to say it often comes off as an automatic response and not a living breathing reality.
I want you to know today that it is your living breathing reality that God says that every day you are the object of His favour. He is looking for ways to bless you.
You can’t earn His favour. You can reject it and deny its reality, but it is still yours to access at any time.
So why is it that most of us don’t live life from a state of blessed and favoured. 
What happened to make us operate from any other position than that of God’s favourite?
When we are unaware of who we are whose we are, then our identity becomes framed by our culture, our circumstances, our mistakes, and from the outside.

Before Adam and Eve ever planted a garden...
Before they named an animal...
Before they fulfilled a single assignment...
God blessed them.
Blessing wasn't the prize.
It was the starting point.
And that remains the same for us today.
But when Adam and Eve chose to believe the enemy’s lie that God was withholding something from them, they accepted a lie. A lie that took them outside of their true identity of blessed, Loved, provided for and protected.
We being born into a world which desires to give us our identity can be fooled into believing that being blessed isn’t part of our inheritance, but I want to tell you it is.

Mephibosheth

I love the story of Mephibosheth in 2 Samuel 9. Mephibosheth was the son of Jonathon, the grandson of Saul, the first king of Israel. Jonathon was David’s best friend from childhood. But after he and his father King Saul were killed, David mourned and lamented that there were no family left that he could show favour to.
Mephibosheth wasn't born a pauper. He was born a prince.
However, after the death of his father and grandfather, his nanny was attempting to run away with him and the five-year-old boy was dropped and somehow both his legs were crushed. He was taken into hiding in a town called Lo Debar – the place of no pasture. This prince spent his life in hiding dreading the day that King David would discover him and kill him.
He lived in hiding. In poverty and fear. He had no idea that David was mourning his friend and wished to find someone of his lineage that he could bless.
Once David discovers that he is still alive, he asks for Mephibosheth to be brought to him. And he restores all the lands and property that was his father’s and grandfather’s and invites him to sit at his table for the rest of his life.
We were all in a similar state like Mephibosheth. We have been living unaware that we are royalty and that the king desires for us to sit at his table.
We stay in hiding. We hide our gifts, our dreams and our callings.
We do just enough to survive but not enough to be discovered.
But I am glad that just as Ziba who was a servant of King Saul was ready to advocate for Mephibosheth and call his name before King David, so does Jesus call our name and has advocated for us.

Jesus paid the price to restore us to our identity of blessed and He continues to sit at the right hand of the throne calling your name as a blessed Child of the Most High.
Psalm 23 tells us the Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want. He makes me to lie down in green pastures.
Some of us have spent years living in Lodabar – a place that had no pastures. We have been in want emotionally, spiritually and mentally, believing that our circumstances have changed who we are. Never knowing that there is a place where we can want for nothing.
But God has never forgotten whose we are and He is calling us to return to living blessed now.

Hey Fearless One. This is Nerissa Golden. I know you already have a copy of my book Live Fearless: A Christian Entrepreneur’s Guide to Life and Business on your book shelf or on your kindle. But you haven’t cracked it open yet. I want to encourage you to do that. Read it a little at a time and work through the reflection questions at the end of each chapter. If you don’t have a copy, be sure to get yours in the format you prefer at amazon.com.

Prince Harry
Whatever your opinion of Prince Harry, one thing became very clear when he stepped away from being a working royal.
His relationship with the institution changed.
Certain privileges changed.
Certain responsibilities changed.
He didn't stop being a prince but he became responsible for his own protection and provision. 
Many of us have done the same thing. Some may never have known they are blessed and entitled to access all that the creator has made and others have intentionally walked away, choosing instead to live a life working to provide for themselves, trying to prove their worth, and striving to protect themselves and those they care about.
When we live unaware of how God see us, we don't stop being loved by Him, but we can live way beneath our status and privilege.

Living blessed doesn't mean life is easy.
It doesn't mean there won't be grief.
It doesn't mean there won't be setbacks.
It means your circumstances never get the final vote on your identity.
Your bank account, your postcode, your childhood, nor a bad diagnosis get to define who you are.
God's declaration does.
Galatians 3:29. If you belong to Christ, you are Abraham's offspring and heirs according to the promise. 
That promise declares that Abraham was blessed and all his descendants would be blessed so that all the families of the earth would be blessed. Genesis 12: 1-3
Fearless One...
You don't have to wait until next week to believe you're blessed.
You don't have to wait until the promotion.
Or the business succeeds.
Or the marriage comes.
Or the healing happens.
You can agree with God today.

As you are listening to this, I want to invite you get out a piece of paper or make a note in your phone. Ask God How do you see me?
Listen for his response.
If you don’t hear anything, I invite you to linger a bit longer. Ask what is stopping me from hearing you? Often it is unforgiveness or anger. Allow the Holy Spirit to bring to your memory the area of unforgiveness or anger you have not dealt with. Be ready to release it and receive God’s forgiveness in that area.
Write down what comes to mind as He answers your question of How do you see me?
Don’t stop there. Ask Him What do you want me to do?
I have found that sometimes the first response I get is a loud negative voice. My own belief system, my fears come to the surface as if to say Don’t believe you are anything other than a scaredy cat or incompetent. Know that God will never call you anything other than what His word already calls you..He calls you blessed. His beloved. He will share an identity with you that you can find backed up in His word.
In episode 2 when I mentioned that I heard the clear statement that I was an encourager it settled with me and I immediately went to the bible to research the gift of encouragement and read up on Barnabas whose name means encourager.
If negative words are rising to the surface. I want you to declare that you are the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. You are fearfully and wonderfully made. And God calls you beautiful and beloved. I want you to find the opposite of that negative word. If you hear you are a failure, then know that success is your true identity. If you hear unlovable, then know that loving, lovable, beloved are the truth.
Go ahead and write down those negative words and then counter them with the opposite which is the truth. Speak out loud and tell yourself you are beloved. You are blessed. You are successful. You are capable.
And then pray into that to seal that word.
Lord, I denounce these negative words, these lies that often come to the surface when I seek to know you more and seek your identity for me. I know that I am your beloved child. Before I was even born you declared I was blessed. I don’t have to earn it or deserve it. It is a statement of fact that is written in the heavenlies.
I claim my right as your beloved and blessed child, in Jesus name. Amen.
Let me leave you with this final question.
What would change in your decisions, your relationships and your work if you truly believed you were already living from God's blessing instead of trying to earn it?
You are absolutely His favourite.
Live Fearless!

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