The Roadmap to Sonship: From Identity to Culture

Personal growth, organizational development, and cultural change are part of God’s larger plans for Reformation via Kingdom Business. There is synergism between your identity, story, purpose, strategy, tactics, heritage, courage, clarity, and culture. When you see them together, it’s a powerful arc of transformation into sonship via relational conversations in God’s Divine Council. This progression is a dynamic framework for building meaningful lives, impactful organizations, and resilient communities, all for one purpose:
to bring Heaven to Earth, an exciting Reformation of
People, Businesses, Communities, and Nations.

The paradox is: the sooner we get out of our own head,
ascend to the Council, have conversations around that table,
and get to know the hearts of Father, Jesus, and the 7 Spirits,
the sooner we will meet our true self and learn our real purpose.

 

 

Who Am I?  Why Am I Here?

1. Identity: Sons feeling chosen (By Father)

Identity is the starting point of this journey. It answers the fundamental question: Who am I? and Why Am I Here? Father is repopulating His Council with chosen sons and Daughters all creation has been waiting for. They carry an assignment for Reformation of Nations. They are bringing heaven to earth in heroic exploits and greater works. Sonship is the experience of being personally chosen and strategically positioned by God for greater works, Jn 15:15-16. Now, sons and daughters are the salt of the earth and the light of the world… important to their Father!

Without a clear sense of identity, the subsequent steps become unfocused. Identity grounds us, enabling authentic connections with others and a coherent purpose and direction.

2. Story: Giving Identity a Redemptive Voice (Jesus)

Once identity is experienced, the next step is to grasp our narrative—the redemptive story. Stories connect identity to the external world, translating purpose into language and action. A compelling story resonates with peers, and integrates our past, present, and future in a way that inspires belief and engagement. Sons are energetic and enthusiastic because they believe their own story. They see Father’s purpose redeemed in the tapestry of their history and destiny.

In organizations, this might be the origin tale or the vision of transformation. For individuals, it’s the journey of struggle, healing, triumph, and purpose. Stories are the bridge to purpose that transforms identity into something tangible, meaningful. We are God’s handiwork, fearfully and wonderfully made, but created to do good works that express our identity.

3. Purpose: The Why Behind the Story, the North Star (The Spirit of Truth, Holy Spirit)

Purpose arises as the driving force behind the story. It answers: Why does this matter? Purpose infuses identity and story with meaning. It provides the motivation to act and the resilience to endure challenges through the warfare to reach the purpose of our destiny.

For a company, purpose might be creating innovative solutions, creating Kingdom value, and solving global problems. For an individual, the opportunities to participate in Reformation on four levels is thrilling (Personal, Businesses, Communities, and Nations). Purpose gives direction to aspirations, grounding personal ambition in Father’s larger cause.

What’s my Contribution?

4. Strategy: Translating Purpose into Action Plans (The Spirit of Wisdom)

Strategy connects purpose with actionable goals. It’s the how—the Business Plan that channels identity, story, and purpose into a co-laboring dynamic built on shared purpose (Ecclesia in Business). A prophetic strategy practically aligns resources, energy, and people to do what Father is doing (Jn 5:19) and produce the miraculous fruit. We have stories of Father working with us!

For organizations, this includes defining objectives, timelines, and metrics in credible business and marketing plans with cash flow. For individuals, it starts with setting our hearts on Father’s purpose, then we build career and personal development goals. Kingdom strategies come into focus when we’re intentional about Father’s purpose and see the movement behind Reformation.

5. Tactics: Tactical Advantage of Co-laboring with Father (The Spirit of Understanding)

The are doors and gates in the spirit that can be opened to make implementing a strategy much easier. We can have a direction and bang our heads against doors that don’t open. More banging doesn’t help! How in the Kingdom starts with an open door, a key to the kingdom. When sons co-labor with Father:

• We have the keys to bind and loose on earth what is true in Heaven, Mt 16:19
• Sons have the authority to open what no man can shut, Isa 22:22

Our biggest tactic is very simple, sons do what their Father is doing and ask for His help.

6. Heritage: Shepherding People Into Purpose (The Spirit of Counsel)

Heritage represents the legacy of the journey, the promise of the destiny we own. It is the accumulated wisdom, the living words, and the experience of Father’s movements that shape identity and inform future decisions. We’re not taking anything to heaven for eternity but relationships. Storing treasures in Heaven are the exploits we heroically exemplify and the people we mentor into becoming sons of God. We do have promises for our land and our people, and we understand the warfare and the victories in possessing what has our name on it.

 

Where’s My Tribe, Legacy?

7. Courage: The Fuel for Boldness (The Spirit of Might)

Courage is essential at every stage of this progression. Overcomers define their identity, share their story, commit to a purpose, and execute a strategy. It also requires our presence in the Council to receive the impartations, see the tactics, and embrace the clarity needed to implement our and Father’s Purpose.

Courage endures and triumphs in the warfare because it sees the future victories, the feeling that they have already won them because Jesus has gone before us.

8. Clarity: Seeing Through Complexity (The Spirit of Knowledge)

Clarity emerges from aligning identity, purpose, and actions around Father’s purpose. This alignment enables individuals and organizations to navigate complexity with confidence. Clarity sharpens decision-making with “Why”, enhances focus with “What”, and ensures that efforts are aligned with long-term goals, our “How.”

Achieving clarity requires reflection, open dialogue, and a willingness to keep in step with the Spirit. It empowers people to act decisively while remaining prophetically agile and to stay in sync with the dynamic nature of bringing Father’s Kingdom to Earth.

9. Culture: Connecting Branches to the Vine (Fear of the Lord)

Culture is the culmination of this progression. It is the lived experience of identity, purpose, and values within a business community built on shared Kingdom purpose (Ecclesia).

In organizations, culture shapes how employees work, innovate, and collaborate. For individuals, it’s the treasure we store in Heaven, the nurturing and mentoring relationships for that foster sonship. It’s a business culture of honoring one another’s role in a shared purpose.

Here’s the secret: you learn to prophetically hear people’s hearts by listening to the hearts of the 7 Spirits in the Council, treasuring what you get by putting the conversations in writing, then in action.

 

Conclusion: The Path to Sonship
(Goes Through God’s Council)

The journey from identity to culture is anything but linear. It’s a circuitous path of conversations in the Council and dynamic mid-course corrections in Business to maintain a posture of Following the Lamb Wherever (Rev 14:4).

• Each element reinforces the others, creating a resilient framework for prophetic agility. Identity informs story, which drives purpose. Purpose shapes strategy, which informs tactics. Heritage provides grounding, courage fuels action, clarity sharpens focus, and culture finds the team who share the cause and make it happen.
• Each entity or personality of the 7 Spirits in the Council can be known, heard, experienced, and appreciated. Each is a facet of the fullness of knowing God.

By embracing this conversational progression into sonship via the council, individuals and organizations can unlock their full potential, father new sons and daughters, and create Kingdom legacies that inspire and endure for generations. This framework reminds us that sonship is not just an assignment but a relational, conversational journey through His-Story with Father and people.

Stretch Assignment – If you found this insightful, go to the council for your own life and business:

• • Download the PDF version of this blog with live links.
  • Use these nine categories via conversations with Father, Jesus, and the 7 Spirits.
    (Get out of your head, go the Council, and take notes on what you hear, have a conversation)
  • Example – Here is on of John’s personal Council sessions, with a Courts session at the end.
  • Template – Take notes from the conversations by hand, then type them up.
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