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How Do You Find Your True Identity, Purpose and Path Forward?
Catherine Toon
Catherine Toon is a retired medical doctor, an anointed author, speaker, coach, and founder of Imprint, LLC and Catherine Toon Ministries.
Her first book, Marked By Love, takes the reader on a wild encounter with God as Love to discover their true identity through the lens of the imprint placed upon every person by God, the lover of our souls.
Catherine’s life purpose is to help people connect with God as He really is. A lot of times, we filter things including how we see God through our pain and through our experience, which is not always leading us in the truth.
What We Discuss With In This Episode
- How do we discover our purpose?
- Why do we need to release our self-protective ways of being?
- Letting God reveal Himself to you
- How to find your clear path forward
- The discovery process
- How to connect with God in different ways
Transcript Highlights
Discovering Our Purpose
God created us with a purpose before the foundation of the world. And from that place as we’re seeing Him more and more rightly, we’re growing in that, and we’re seeing ourselves more rightly. When we go in that order, it works really good; but when we go out of order, we get confused and wacky stuff happens.
Stripping Yourself Off Your Self-Protective Ways of Being
God created us in His image and likeness and in that identity piece of who we really are, that’s going to look like a “flavor of God.” So it’s going to look like God in you translated through you who’s unique and distinct. It’s going to look like love because we are marked by love.
But in life, stuff happens and we get wounded. There are faulty ways of being that are self-protective ways of being. There are just ungodly things we pick up that are destructive to us. And when we sin, we are violating love – love towards ourselves, towards others, and towards God.
You’re Amazing, You’re Enough, Just Be!
There’s this mindset that your value is in what you do. In that case, what you do is never enough. But God is the only one that gets to define you. That’s why it’s so incumbent upon us to really get settled in who we are. We’re so loved and we’re so approved.
We’re so accepted and we’re so amazing in the image and likeness of God. That’s a humble statement because you didn’t create yourself. He created you amazing so you just be amazing!
As you recognize you didn’t create yourself, there’s something amazing that happens and people can feel it. You don’t have to strive to be who you are, you just are. But “just being” is hard when that wasn’t enough.
Let God Reveal Himself to You
We actually have encounters with God our whole life, but we just don’t know it’s Him yet. And so if you don’t know God is Jesus then let just God reveal Himself to you.
A lot of times, too, believers have done a really crappy job representing Jesus. We’ve done things to violate love and we’ve done them in Jesus’ name. We’ve made Jesus look ugly and angry, and exclusive and condemning. And that’s a problem.
That’s why for those people where God has been presented to them and shoved down their throats, it’s no surprise why they wouldn’t want anything to do with that. But when God gets to reveal Himself to you, he’s so lovely and so patient and so humble, and he’s a server.
How to Find Your Clear Path Forward
Finding your path, getting your identity, and figuring out your purpose – it’s not a linear thing. It’s not something where you check all the boxes. It is an unveiling that happens when you engage with God.
Once you strip away a lot of these things, He gets to reveal himself. You were born for connection with the one who created you, the one who loved you and gave himself up to you. That is where you come alive and You become the greatest version of yourself.
Stripping Yourself of the Lies to Bring About True Healing
What causes a lot of the pain are the lies that we believe and those lies mar how we see ourselves.
The minute God heals your heart, something starts to come alive in you. A lot of things will be stripped off from you – shame, limiting beliefs, etc. You start to come into yourself and blossom like a flower.
Identity is like clothing that fits you well. It’s seamless. And as you start to meditate in that and walk in, and own that in a confident way, it’s going to empower other people to be who they are.
How to Hear From God
There are multiple ways that you can connect with God. For example, we have five physical senses which are five spiritual senses. But sometimes we don’t know how to use our equipment.
You can sense God’s presence. When you actually feel his presence, it’s a life-giving, unique sensation that’s really hard to describe. But you know it when that happens because you can feel the heart of God.
You can also smell and taste in the spirit. And then a lot of times, and this is a surprising one, God will think through you. That means God will put a thought in you and if it’s God’s thought, it’s going to carry peace. It’s not going to be anything that violates love.
Episode Resources 
- Free Gifts: https://catherinetoon.com/click-me
- Book: Marked By Love
Connect With Catherine Toon, MD
- Website: https://catherinetoon.com
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/catherinetoon
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CatherineToonMD
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCqjtcC6dkLRBP-8-6T8EQA
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/CatherineToonMD
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/catherine-toon-7a924340
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