Divine Destiny as God’s Beloved Child

In this First Fruits message, Chris leads a time of testimony, meditation, and prophetic declaration about divine destiny as God’s beloved child. The video is for believers who need fresh hope, peace, and a reminder that their identity begins with being loved by God.

• God’s love can flow through Christian community when someone feels alone or orphaned.

• The torn veil shows that Jesus removed separation and opened access to God.

• Believers are invited to leave false foundations and live from their identity in Christ.

• Childlike faith helps people dream again with peace, hope, and trust in God.

• The prophetic declaration focuses on peace, restored dreams, and divine destiny as God’s children.

Hey Natasha, good to see you. Thanks for being here with us. Morning.

Thanks for the invite, sir. How was the rest of your weekend?

It was interesting, but I’m happy to be here.

Happy to be here. Hey, Mary. Good to see you. Thanks for being on First Fruits today. We are just taking some time to let everyone else join. Usually Dan and Chris are also here, so we are giving them time to join the meeting.

I feel like because of the extended fast, I have been spending extra time in prayer. I’m excited to share the revelation that I was getting from God this weekend in today’s First Fruits. So that is exciting.

I’m always looking for good news. Does anyone have good news to share?

Well, I shared the good news last Saturday, so I do not have to share it again. But that has been a teaching experience for me, I must say, and what flowed out of the Wednesday session on that. I thank God for that.

We were riding in our new minivan that we got on Thursday all weekend, and we got to take our whole family to vigil Mass on Saturday. It was the first time the entire family was in the car together, and it felt comfortable. It felt like we were where we needed to be 11 years ago.

I wanted to buy a minivan, but the boys’ mom chose to get an SUV that we ended up adopting in the divorce proceedings. The argument was, “Kids are only young for a little bit of time. Why would you want to drive a minivan? It has that stigma.”

For me, it is a badge of honor. It says to the world when I’m driving it that there is a woman who loves me enough that she is willing to populate enough children to necessitate the need to buy this minivan. Anytime I get in that thing, I am grinning from ear to ear. We are rolling down the highway, playing our Jesus music, and sometimes it is high praises in song. I have my hand up, and my three-year-old in her car seat behind me has her hand up worshiping the Lord.

It is so beautiful. Thank you, God. Thank you, Lord. Praise Your name, Jesus. We love You, Lord. Thank You, Lord. Praise to You, O God. Thank You, Jesus.

Dan, look at you, all spiffy and sharp.

Good morning, everyone.

Good morning. We were just killing some time, and I think the time is killed. Let’s go into the meeting, because I also want to share how last week’s word resonated.

As you know, our agenda is to share testimonies from the prior declaration, go through a guided meditation, make the prophetic declaration for the week, hit some announcements, and then close in prayer.

Last week, the prophetic declaration was that God is thirsting through us for His orphan children, and the question was, will you allow Him to thirst? Here were some of the questions that I felt require us to step out in immense faith to bring the kingdom of heaven to earth.

Can I pray for your son to be raised from the dead? Can I pray for your limb to grow back? Do you want this demon removed? Do you want to hear what I heard from you or for you in prayer? Can I pray for you to be healed?

I’m curious. How did this resonate for you over the last week?

Since everyone is silent, I’ll go. For me, it happened in a little bit of a different way. Last week was my birthday on Thursday. Chris knows, and some of you know, that I have been going through a really tough season of betrayals and people I trusted not living up to their expectations, which has caused severe financial problems for me.

To that extent, I did not want to celebrate my birthday this year. I just wanted to have a very small birthday celebration with two of my closest friends. I told them, “You do not have to do anything. You are just going to sit with me and have some ramen. It will take about five minutes to make.”

I had actually closed down access to community, even though God gives us healthy Christian community many times from which love can flow. It was like God was asking me, “Would you allow love to flow into your life, even if nothing else changes?”

In many ways, I was feeling like an orphan. But when I turned up at their house, I saw that all of my best friends had come. The people who have been part of my life, who have prayed for me and supported me in many ways, were all there.

Sometimes, if you are single, you can do the works of ministry and do a lot of things. But for God’s love to actually flow into your life, you need people around you who will love and cherish you and show that God’s love has many dimensions and many ways to come into your life.

That is where God came for me, as an orphan child who would thirst for Him again.

I love that. I did not think about us being the orphan. I’m happy that you experienced God’s love in a new way and that you felt affirmed in the community God has wrapped around you.

Natasha, what about you? Was this resonating with you at all?

Sorry about that earlier, everyone. I heard some men working outside, so I had to rush out for a bit. I’m sorry about that.

No worries.

I do not want to disturb the meeting. Can you repeat it?

This screen here is wrong. My bad. It should be 3/23/26. Last week on First Fruits, this is what we discerned. God was saying that He was thirsting through us for His orphan children, and the question was, will you allow Him to thirst? These were the questions to ask the world as we allow God to thirst through us.

I’ll share. When I went to buy that minivan on Thursday, I think if I had stayed there throughout the day, the entire car dealership would have entered into salvation. That is how intensely the Lord was working through me to love the people at that place.

I randomly put a small Jesus figurine in a woman’s hand. She was waiting for her BMW to be fixed, and she was playing on her phone. She had one hand up in a position to receive, while looking at her phone, so I placed this little Jesus statue in her hand. She looked at it, looked at me, looked at it again, and then looked at me. She said, “Sir, my sisters and I just came off a cruise, and we really wanted this type of figurine. How did you know?”

That launched me into prophetically ministering to this woman. She is an atheist. She was raised atheist. Her husband is Catholic and is raising the kids Catholic, but she had separated herself from going to Mass with them on the weekends. I had convinced her that it was time to be open to starting to go to church.

That was amazing.

Then I was ministering to the finance manager who was making me sign the paperwork and trying to sell me additional insurance. All of a sudden, he started opening up all these intimate details about his life. I started prophetically ministering to him, and he told me he was convinced to go back to Mass.

It was flowing so easily. It felt like whatever had blocked people from receiving prophetic messages or receiving the question to accept salvation was gone. There were no hindrances whatsoever. Praise God for that.

I felt like wherever I went, I felt God’s hunger for the lost. I was ministering in the middle of doing life. I do not remember having an intentional three-hour block where I went out to evangelize. It was just praying for people in the midst of life.

Another thing that hit really hard was after we gathered for the accountability group. Natasha, after that, I went upstairs and was cleaning the kitchen because I like to make sure the kitchen is clean before I cook and make a mess again.

While I was cleaning the kitchen, I felt like the Lord said that one of my son’s friends was caught in a lust addiction. They are 14, so ministering a prophetic word about that to a 14-year-old is something you have to be very careful about.

I felt like the Lord told me to go to the other friend and say, “I feel like the Lord was telling me to talk to you guys about pornography and masturbation.” We had also talked about it before, so I was following up and asking how they were doing. I felt like the Lord wanted them to know this mattered.

I started to share my own testimony, that by their age I was deeply addicted and had many issues in my life because of it. I could not even finish my testimony before the friend I felt the Lord had highlighted started to share. He said that four months ago he had kicked it, but about a month ago he had fallen back into it, and now he was struggling to get out of it.

We prayed through that, and I asked the community to pray and intercede for him.

That was just like doing life, and then all of a sudden the Lord starts speaking prophetically about someone’s situation. I was not intentionally trying to pray for those kids that day. I was just open. I had said yes to this prophetic declaration that God could use me however He wanted to thirst for His people, and that started manifesting last week. I’m grateful for that. That is my testimony.

Amen. Thank you, brother, for sharing that. Sometimes that openness is going to be a blessing. You received a word of knowledge so that you could go and minister to them. There will be a time when the word you placed in them is going to bear fruit.

At the same time, on that day, you still had to be open to go and talk to them.

I’ll give a short testimony here. Yesterday, I was coming back home, and I was not in any mood to pray. I just wanted to walk back home and sleep. God said, “Go back and pray for this guy.”

I went up to this person. I had seen him with a couple of different women in the last few weeks, so I had stopped talking to him. I had said, “If you are going through trouble, I will come and pray for you. No problem. But if I keep seeing you with five other women every time something is wrong, I’m not going to keep praying.”

I did not know why I was going to pray, but I turned up. I found out that he had actually cleaned up his act. Even though he has a child out of wedlock, he has moved in with his baby’s mother, which is how he describes the woman who has been his wife in spirit.

Even though he had been seen with other people on the street, in reality, there was a sea change. There was a time when he and this woman could not even be in the same room. So it is also important to be open, to go, and to find the truth.

In many ways, this is an answered prayer. The next step is baptism. Let’s see how God does that.

Wow. Praise God. Thank You, Jesus. Thank You, Lord.

Dan, kudos to you for pressing in again. Sometimes, in your humanity, you are willing to give up, and the Lord says, “I’m not willing to give up on this guy.”

Thank You, Lord. Praise Your name. Thank You, Jesus.

I think that itself is a word, because the last Disarming Lies was pointing this out to me too. Love is patient. If everyone saw the times when I impatiently wanted to give up on people, would my love be defined as patient? That is always an opportunity for me to grow in love.

This is what we usually use as the doorway to heaven. It is John 14:2-3, where Jesus says that His Father’s house has many dwelling places. If it were otherwise, He would tell us plainly, because He goes to prepare a place for us. When everything is ready, He will come back and take us to Himself, so that we will be where He is.

But I want to shift it for this week’s prayer.

I was reading through the Passion because Sunday’s Mass was about Jesus’ Passion. While I was at Mass, I had the Penelope duty of running around in the gathering space outside the sanctuary, because Penelope was not going to make it all the way through a longer Mass with a very long reading.

But one section stood out to me as I prayed through the Gospel this weekend. Matthew 27:50-53 says that Jesus cried out again with a loud voice and yielded up His spirit. Then the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom, the earth shook, the rocks were split, and the graves were opened.

The veil was a massive curtain that separated two spaces in the temple: the holy place where priests ministered regularly, and the Holy of Holies where God’s presence dwelled.

Only the high priest could go behind the veil into the Holy of Holies, and that was once per year on the Day of Atonement. We know from John the Baptist that his father was selected for one of those situations.

They used to tie a rope around the priest because if a priest went into the Holy of Holies with sin on him, he could die in it. Then they would use the rope to pull him back because no one else would want to go in and potentially die. It was an intense level of ministry to get that close to God in the Holy of Holies.

According to Jewish tradition, which is not directly from the Bible, ancient sources claim that the veil sometimes required up to 300 priests to handle or move it because it was so heavy and dense. You could not just have two men carrying this veil. It would require almost an army of people to carry it.

The word “torn” in Greek implies violent tearing, forceful splitting, and a decisive break.

If it took up to 300 men to carry the veil, then if it were torn by human hands, they would likely start at the bottom and tear upward. Because of its heaviness, they probably would not climb a ladder to the top to start tearing it.

The fact that Scripture says it was torn from top to bottom tells me that God tore the veil when Jesus died.

The veil is significant because it represents the barrier between God and humanity. The separation between God and us was removed by God Himself. Therefore, access to God became open for us and has been open since.

Praise God. Praise You, Lord Jesus Christ, for what You did to tear the veil so that there is no separation between us. Thank You, Lord.

The word “rocks” in Greek can mean a foundation of sorts. What I’m seeing in this is that Scripture is saying it was a foundation of false religion, or men trying to achieve oneness with God instead of just being in the image and likeness of God because of what Jesus has done.

When we are grafted into the family of God, we are baptized. As we are baptized, we enter into God’s family. Our old selves die off, and now we move in new life. We are new creations.

The word “graves” in Greek can mean tombs, graves, or memorials. In Scripture, it can also mean symbolic death, uncleanness, or hidden things.

Through Jesus’ death, these hidden things, these double lives, are opened. As I have shared before in First Fruits, every heavenly blessing was poured out at the cross. It is not a question of whether the grace is there for us. It is there for the taking. The question is whether we are willing to step out and receive it.

God did it. He already tore the veil. Jesus’ death was one act done for all time, and that act reverberated to save humanity.

This is how I wanted to start today’s meditation.

I want us to see ourselves as the man in this picture, as God starts to melt away all of the old self. Jesus said, “May they be one.” We are grafted into oneness with Jesus, oneness with the Holy Spirit, and oneness with God the Father.

Thank You, Lord.

Ephesians 2:6 says, “And God raised us up together and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus.”

Through Jesus’ death on the cross, God tears the veil. There is no separation between heaven and earth. We can access heaven through the cross. Now, let us go through the cross and access heaven together.

As we start to meditate, get into a comfortable place.

In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Amen.

Jesus, we praise Your name for everything You have done at the cross so that we could enter into heaven and be resurrected beings. We are new creations.

All these old attacks that Dan talked about, feeling alone and separated from God, all of that is the old self. But God is calling us into the new because we are new creations that the world has never seen before.

Now I encourage you, my brothers and sisters, as we sit here, imagine God giving you a gigantic bear hug, like a grandfather would wrap up his grandchild. Start there as we begin our meditation.

Now I’m going to turn up the music so that we can sit in meditation time.

A period of music and meditation follows.

Beautiful people of God, as we come back, feel free to rub your face, wiggle your toes, or rub your fingers together. It helps you come out of the meditation.

As you know, in most of our meetings, there is no real structure outside of certain things we want to do. If anyone wants to share, feel free to say what you feel the Lord was showing you when we visited heaven together.

I got a sense of hoping again. I saw a large balloon that I was holding, and it was going up. It was almost like the guy from the animation with the house and balloons.

I sensed the authority and the legal rights to dream again. Not just to dream that I am being displaced, but to dream knowing that all the prayers and wishes are going to a place.

I saw the dreamers go up, and there was a balloon almost at the end of the year. God was standing there, basically saying, “Now you can come and join Me inside the balloon.” The balloon that was impermanent, which I was holding, now becomes permanent with God.

Mary and Natasha, would either of you like to share what you were seeing while we were praying?

I will go, please. It was a great sense of peace. It was overwhelming peace.

As I mentioned before, whenever I try to come to these meetings, there is the biggest war. Today, a few minutes before we started, I began to feel really unwell. Then these men showed up. I’m not sure if they were from the electrical company or a utility company, because today is a public holiday.

I was feeling bad for disturbing the meeting and not feeling my best. But during the meditation, it was as if a lot of my issues were flashing before me, all the negatives.

I remembered your word when we started, the good news. As those images started to occur, with the bad feeling and the embarrassment from the men showing up, I started to pull on the word you gave.

“God, thank You for tearing the veil to bring me closer. God, thank You for tearing the veil to bring me closer.”

Then the images stopped, and the sick feeling left. Thank God, I am not hearing the men outside anymore. I want to thank God for the peace He brought in that meditation and for helping me really focus on Him. That is what I experienced: peace and a deeper focus on Him.

Thanks.

It is interesting that you share that you were feeling sick before the meeting. Hannah had the same thing. She is very sensitive to the spirit. I feel like whenever we have these supernatural gatherings, she often starts to experience sickness in the body, or we have had kids with issues. We just have to resist the devil, and he will flee from us. Thank You, Lord.

Amen.

I was all over the place, so I did not have enough time to synthesize my thoughts. I’m just going to share out loud what I was seeing.

I saw my son when he was dressed as a superhero as a little kid. This is the son that a lot of people say looks a lot like me, Carter. At first, I felt like the Lord was saying it was me. But as I kept looking at it, I saw an angel of the Lord standing there.

I felt like the Lord was saying that He is our superhero. The word “superhero” was at the forefront and center of the whole meditation. As I looked at the angel of the Lord, I felt like He showed me that we become His superheroes.

Then I saw my daughter, Athelia. Dan got to snuggle with her. She is like the most pure and innocent kid you will ever see. She has these chubby cheeks, a little space between her teeth, and chubby thighs. She is all the baby things. You cannot help but want to turn her into a little doll and put her in your pocket because she is so cute.

I felt like the Lord was saying, “Remember who we were as children.”

The kingdom of heaven is for the childlike. So many of us go through wounds, trauma, and demonic oppression, and then we wear masks to cover ourselves from who we really are and who God made us to be.

I feel like God was saying, “Remember who you were.”

I started asking, “What do You mean by that?” The first image that came to mind was how we used to love playing street hockey on my cul-de-sac growing up. I was always a leader among the kids in the neighborhood.

Then in fourth or fifth grade, I got put on a select team called Young Guns. Suddenly, I was playing with kids who were all at my level. I was usually the best kid on my travel hockey team, but now I was playing with a select team where everyone was incredibly good at the sport.

Out of my woundedness from my upbringing, I ran from that instead of seeing it as a challenge. But I remember that when I was playing with those kids, I felt that was the time when I grew the most because I was being stretched the most.

As I looked at this image of being stretched, suddenly I saw a sea of saints in heaven. I felt like the Lord was saying not to run from the saints’ lives. When we know about the saints’ lives, it should not draw us into a place of, “Look at how amazing they are.”

For example, St. Francis of Assisi could float to the top of a tree and preach, and fish would come and listen to him preach. There are these incredible supernatural miracles. But all of that is God’s grace flowing through them.

We too, as we are formed, as we move in the identity of God as His beloved children, grafted into His family, in the resurrection life, step out of these graves and leave the firm foundation of false religion and striving. We sit in our identities as His beloved children.

Then this grace flows through us. We do not have to worry about someone else flowing in resurrection power or whatever God is doing through the rest of the saints, or what He has done through the saints. If we are just in our childlike state, that is where the greatest fruit flows into our lives. That is where God releases the greatest level of His superpowers into our lives.

I feel like this requires additional meditation. But I would challenge you, Natasha, Dan, and Mary, to spend some time thinking about who Natasha was and who Dan was in second grade. Who were you in first grade? What were some of those traits that you saw?

I feel like that is what the Lord is going to magnify. That is likely where our greatest superhero strengths are, when we are flowing in our best selves and what that looks like in this life.

I know that is a lot. I’m sorry for rambling, Dan. There is a lot to write down.

The synergies I am seeing are that you said dreaming again and balloons. I think you said the movie with the old man whose house gets lifted by balloons and goes into the heavens. My favorite cartoon growing up was Winnie the Pooh. Pooh Bear borrowed Christopher Robin’s balloon because he wanted to pretend he was a raincloud to trick the bees and get honey.

Dan, do you want to weigh it? I’ll give you the authority to pull it down. Natasha is saying peace. I’m saying superheroes. You are saying balloons and dreaming again. What do you have, brother?

I sense that God wants us to be like children so that we can dream again. It is not just the ending point. Even in the journey, there will be peace.

As we embrace our identities as God’s children, we are going to have peace as we go up, knowing that our dreams are not being robbed. Rather, we are being elevated toward Him. That is what I felt.

All right. Now let’s make that prophetic declaration.

In Jesus’ mighty and holy name, speak it out. In Jesus’ mighty and holy name, we decree and declare that what You have shown us will come to pass. Even by the end of next week, we are going to see the results. We are going to find and feel God’s peace as we dream again as God’s children.

God, You remind us that we are Your children first. That is our identity. In that, we are going to find our hope, our joy, and our peace.

Amen and amen.

I do not know about you, but it felt hard for me to want to leave. I felt so raptured in today’s meditation. I feel like this is going to take more time to unravel.

Thank you, Dan, for writing it up and sending it over. I’m thankful to Mary, Natasha, and Dan for joining us and for your yes.

God, I pray for Dan, Mary, and Natasha, that You would create a rapid acceleration of their childlike state coming into formation. Jeremiah 1:5 says, “Before I formed you in your mother’s womb, I knew you.”

Lord, I pray that the divine destiny You spoke, that You sang over Natasha, Dan, and Mary, would reverberate strongly in their ears. I pray that they would remember the divine dance You called them into before You spoke them into existence on the earth.

God, like Dan said, even in the next week, let there be a clear shift. The veil is torn. The rock is shaken. Lord, we put our foundation on the cornerstone, which is Christ. All other false foundations are broken.

Lord, as we make You the cornerstone, that is the foundation on which You can build a life uncommon. I pray that in this next week there would be major movement and shifts into their divine destinies.

Thank You, Jesus. Thank You, Lord. Praise Your name, O God. Praise Your name, Lord Jesus Christ.

My beautiful people of God, we have only a little bit of time left before we go live with shifting from strictly a deliverance ministry into a healing and deliverance ministry.

A week from tomorrow is our first healing meeting. If you have friends with terminal illness, cancer, deafness, blindness, or serious physical conditions, bring them. Bring them all.

My wife and I were chuckling this weekend as we thought about healing ministry and the word where Jesus says that when you throw a party, do not just invite the elites, but invite those who are suffering, downcast, and downtrodden.

In a healing ministry, it is like saying, “Bring all the people who have issues.” Invite them.

Natasha knows this, but Dan, my commitment for the week was to really market the healing event. I started over the weekend, and I think I sent out over 50 texts already. I’m going to try to text all the people I know who are moving with Christ or have some physical ailment. I would love to see over 30 people show up at that first call so we can start strong for our brother Mark, who has seen many healings in his ministry.

We are certainly graced and blessed to have him. All the links for our ministry can be found here. If this ministry has touched your heart, there is also the ability to donate to the ministry to keep the mission alive and strong, and to pay it forward for someone else who will receive the same blessings and giftings in their own life that you have experienced in this ministry.

Thank You for that, Lord.

Natasha, do you want to close us out in prayer?

Okay. In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Amen.

Father God, we thank You for this ministry. We thank You for giving us the time to meet here today. We thank You for Mr. Chris, Mr. Dan, Mary, me, and all those who wanted to be here and who may have joined by the stream.

Lord, we thank You. We ask for Your Holy Spirit to be poured out upon this ministry and upon us here today. We ask for Your Spirit to be poured out on the commitments and declarations that were made, and on the upcoming healing event.

Father, we thank You for the empowerment of Your Holy Spirit. We ask for continual empowerment on us, on our families, and on all that needs to be done. We ask for the fulfillment of Your word that was decreed and declared today.

In the name of Jesus, we ask for the outpouring of the precious blood of Jesus on us to protect us, our families, our work, our homes, and our vehicles. Protect us in our going out and our coming in. Bring us back safely to our upcoming meetings on Wednesday, Saturday, and Monday.

We ask this in the name of Jesus Christ. Even for all unsaid prayers, Father, You know them. We ask for fulfillment and for Your manifestation in them. In Jesus’ name. Amen.

Amen. God bless you all. We’ll see you soon. God bless you. Peace.