Hi, Chris Valalton here. Welcome to my podcast where I hope to inspire you to walk

in your Royal Identity and Christ and experience God's goodness in every area of your life.

I hope you enjoyed this message today and if you're looking for more resources,

check out ChrisValalton.com. Let's just take a moment to pray, Father, we thank you so much for what

you're doing all over the world. Lord, in the midst of darkness, you are light. In the midst of deep

darkness, you arise. And so, Lord, we're thankful that our certainty lies in you, in your nature,

in your carrying fatherhood of us and not in our circumstances. And, Lord, I thank you that you've

actually set us in heavenly places far above all principalities and powers. So, we're not under

the circumstances. We're above them. And, Lord, we bless this day. And, Lord, we declare that this

is the day that you made and that we will rejoice and be glad in it. Amen. Well, I can almost preach

about something totally different. But, this subject is being transformed, I mean, transformed

from the inside out. And, I want to feel churned to Genesis chapter 32. I want to share a story with

you that actually is a pretty familiar story. Bill told this story many years ago and we reveal

really touched me and it's become just a part of my own story. But, we're talking about being

transformed from the inside out. And, how many know the kingdom within you becomes the kingdom

around you? And, part of the challenge that Jesus had with the Pharisees is that they were trying to

convert people from the outside in. And, Jesus talked about the fact that you've got to take,

you've got to start from the inside out. You can't clean the outside of the cup and, and, and call

that transformed. And, and I want to just take this story out of Genesis and the story of Jacob and

just kind of kick off this series with this with this very familiar story in our movement.

He's learned to chapter 32 of Genesis that I tell you verse 22. Now, he arose speaking of Jacob

at night and took his two took his two wives and his maids and his 11 children and crossed

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