Stepping into Royalty

By Juliana Page

What God has planned for your future, you can’t accomplish on your own. Perhaps you know there’s something you should be doing, but you just can’t pinpoint it. You want to make a big impact with your life, but you struggle with questions like:

• What did God have in mind when he created me?
• Are there keys to unlock my destiny?
• How do I build spirit-driven success?

In Stepping into Royalty, author Juliana Page relies on careful exploration of scripture, using powerful stories to help you think differently about your calling and why it’s important to God. She tells how life offers more when destiny is your focus; stepping into royalty means stepping into the role you were created to play in life. Your divine purpose maneuvers you past challenges, pains, and shortcuts and even what appears to be failure.

Whether you’re just starting out, starting over, or wondering if there is greater success than what you’ve already accomplished, now is the time to step into the frequency of faith. Stepping into Royalty empowers you to take a stand for who you are, what you carry, and the legacy you co-create. It helps you to wake up to new levels of fulfillment and fall in love with yourself and your life.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Balboa Press
• Release date: Jul 14, 2021
• ISBN: 9781982271411

Juliana Page

Juliana Page is a leading expert in the field of coaching transformational work, leadership, and personal development. She has worked in several industries including corporate, nonprofit and network marketing. With a Masters in Film Production, a Bachelors in Journalism and Economics Management and Professional Life Coaching and Ministry certifications, Juliana serves as a spirit-led self-mastery strategist to organizations, companies, entrepreneurs and individuals that know the world’s way just doesn’t cut it. As an author and successful entrepreneur, she offers a carefully curated set of practical wisdom and tools to promote sustainable health, spiritual well-being, and financial freedom. Through her books, unique coaching methods, and programs, she has helped countless people connect with their soul, transform their bodies, empower their minds, gain financial independence, and fall in love with themselves and their lives.

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CONTENTS

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1     Step into the Secret Place

Chapter 2     Step into the Wonderful New

Chapter 3     Step into Your Worth

Chapter 4     Step into the Prophetic

Chapter 5     Step into the Anointing

Chapter 6     Step into Your Deliverance

Chapter 7     Step into Your Capacity

Chapter 8     Step into Reformation

Chapter 9     Step into Faith

Chapter 10   Step into Hope

Chapter 11   Step into Love

Chapter 12   Step into Success by Design

Conclusion

Bonus — Step into Acceleration

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

I express my gratitude to everyone who has contributed to my life, not just to this book, because it’s my life experiences that make any of my books possible.

To God, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit: My greatest gratitude goes to You. This message would never have been possible without Your guidance and wisdom. I’m exceedingly thankful for Your Presence and ongoing revelation. I love You deeply, and it is an honor to serve You and partner with You. To You be all the glory.

To the AuSSM family: Each of you does so much behind the scenes to build God’s kingdom. Thank you for your unending encouragement, challenging questions, and selfless service.

To my family, extended family, and friends: You are each a gift from God and have brought such richness to my life. I love you.

INTRODUCTION

I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you.

—Genesis 12:2–3

"Y ou’ve got a lot to lose. That phrase swirled through my mind and shook my soul. I was a few years into my faith-walk and eager to absorb everything I could learn about shifting my fear frequency to one of unwavering belief. I preach God’s Vibes Matter," after all. Here was my strategy: Replace TV with sermons; preach and pray out loud while walking around the house; immerse myself in equipping classes, conferences and small groups; and turn commutes into car university with biblically based content that would feed my spirit. Voilà! Why would I go through all of this effort to change what I was exposing myself to? In short, I sensed a change was upon me, and I was hungry!

I had come a long way through the school of hard knocks and logic, and frankly, it hadn’t brought me to the spacious place and the promised place I knew God had for me. If asked, I would have told you that I was a believer and that I’m grateful for all God has brought me through and provided in my life. But none of that could overshadow my main vibe, which was most of the time aligned with an undercurrent of dissatisfaction with the present and restlessness about the future.

I knew I was made for more, and I’d seen glimpses of what God had called me to, but I didn’t feel like I was living in it. My belief systems, logic, self-limiting sense of urgency, and subsequent restrictions I was accustomed to were keeping me locked in a holding pattern. These paradigms had become part of my identity via my family of origin, societal ideas, and the dysfunction I’d experienced; and they kept me conducting myself as someone who was no match for blessings and favor as her portion. It’s one thing to know your identity and authority in Christ and another thing entirely to operate in it.

No matter how far from the mark I felt I was or how different my current reality felt from the one I’d perceived, I kept exposing myself to the Word of God and also to mentors and leaders who either were born into a legacy of faith or had come into a position of radical faith and belief; they were sold out to Christ. More than anything, I allowed their lives, ministries, careers, relationships, testimonies, and overall lifestyles to indicate what was available to me. I took what the Bible said as fact—that there is wisdom in a multitude of counselors—and I worked that word! I put aside where I came from and what I was told was possible for someone like me and started to use my imagination to create possibilities for my life rather than just solving problems and living in survival mode.

It’s really challenging to tap into God’s creative power and grace when all you can think about and ruminate on is surviving and hustling to make things work. It’s nearly impossible to hear your instinct and impressions from the Holy Spirit when your inner life is so busy. That mode of operating really reveals a lack of trust and a desperate need to control outcomes in order to manage the anxiety that can come with uncertainty. It also robs you of the prosperity that only comes through effectively drawing on what is authentically in you. As I became increasingly annoyed with me and that mode of being, which I had learned and then reinforced, I began allowing myself to get out of the box and imagine a new way of thinking, being, and operating. Who am I as a great nation? Have you ever allowed yourself to imagine that? That’s a Selah, pause-and-think-about-it kind of question.

Back to the phrase that shook my soul. I was at a huge faith summit with some ministry leaders I was serving in a recovery ministry with when I heard this phrase. While I was consuming masses of information and had more worksheets and pamphlets than I knew what to do with, all I could hang onto was that single phrase from one of the presentations: You’ve got a lot to lose. It was clearly the message I’d traveled for and invested in showing up at the summit for, yet it was also one of those messages that you wish you could unhear because you know how much it will require to steward. I immediately tried to dissect it with my logic and reasoning. Having a lot to lose; is that good or bad? Does it mean I’m losing people or someone I’m connected to like the Genesis story of Abram (later named Abraham) and Lot? What else do I have to lose at this point? Have you been there? You feel like you’re already at rock bottom, and God reveals another deeper level of surrender.

I couldn’t stop wrestling with the questions, and then here comes God speaking straight to my spirit, I’ll show you, and it won’t be by your might or logic anymore. Exactly what I was afraid of, because what did that mean? How long will it take, can I trust a new process, and what happens if I don’t surrender? I’d already seen the movies before where I figured life out and navigated in my own strength and understanding. Those movies were turbulent, painful, and full of unnecessary detours. I was in a position where I literally could not operate anymore the way I was accustomed to, and I was available to cooperate with God’s plan.

Here comes God moments will come as personal divine encounters to wake us up, the real question is, will we give heed to them? Just when you least expect God to change your world, here He comes. Maybe you’ve had a moment like mine, or maybe one is around the corner, but Bible mentors are the best to glean from for wisdom and witness their process. Abram had a here comes God moment when God spoke to Him at the most unexpected seasons: Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, and unto a land that I will show thee (Genesis 12:1 KJV). That’s quite a pull-into-the-new message. One of the first things that I noticed was the challenge of picking up and moving to start all over; I’d known this all too well. What makes Abram’s story particularly interesting was that this call of God came when Abram was about seventy-five years of age, and to top it off, God didn’t even give him a specific place to go. In other words, if Abram was going to find out where God had for him to go, he was going to have to start moving by faith.

If you’ve ever received an encounter, revelation, or directive like that, I don’t know any tool that is more powerful than leveling up your prayer life. Your prayer life is a space and place in your life of sacrifice—often of time and to-do’s or plans—and power to draw on spiritual and supernatural strength. We can’t afford to lose this consecrated space in our lives. It’s the equivalent of not putting gas in your car or not charging your phone and expecting these technologies to function. Our very lives revolve around God and around hearing His voice. So whatever we do, we need to be able to hear Him.

The kicker: the world isn’t set up for people to hear God. There are so many potential distractions that can pull your focus from your Source and His frequency from the minute your eyes open. For example, quick self-check: what is the very first thing you do when you wake up? Is it praising God for your first blessing? Is it grabbing your phone and checking emails and all the socials? I want to present to you that we all absolutely can wear busyness as a badge, but when it comes to deeply desiring change in our lives and knowing Who holds the power to satisfy our souls, this prioritizing is a matter of choice. If we really want God as our Lord, not just our Savior, we’ll make the choice. Besides, don’t you also want to have such a compelling vision of the future that you actually want to wake up every morning to fulfill it?

When you hear the voice of God, He reveals and shows you a compelling future. You don’t have to muster up the courage. You don’t have to muster up the big, beautiful picture, and—my personal favorite—you don’t have to figure out how it’s all going to work out. When the voice of God speaks over your life, you can rest assured that you are known, seen, loved, and right on time.

The reason God’s voice creates a supernatural and compelling future is that He doesn’t speak to us from where we are right now. The voice of God speaks to us from our future. He knows the potential He’s hidden in us, what He’s prepared for us, and what we’re capable of becoming. He also knows and reassures us that if we follow His voice, He will lead us straight into His good plans. The big, beautiful picture is one where when you go to bed at night, you rest easy knowing that you fulfilled His plan for your life. When we get a glimpse of that future, we can’t unsee it. And get this: when our future becomes more compelling than our past and present, we will become the men and women we need to be to follow the voice of God. When you want to hear God, you create space and give Him your ear. This very practice is what enables us to grow and mature as believers.

You and I were never created to live a life that is a conveyer belt. We were created to build and to grow, to encourage and inspire. I believe that when it feels like God is pulling us back, it’s because He’s getting ready to launch us forward with greater accuracy and fervency into the desires that He’s hidden in our hearts, which we couldn’t have come to without the development of the Holy Spirit challenging our passions, our purpose, and our resolve. Leaders who change the world, specifically royal leaders, have developed resilience. This isn’t something that you can just give someone. Resilience is something that emerges through the process and the wrestle. Knowing how to effectively pivot and control-alt-delete things in our lives is part of the pioneer spirit.

Maybe you got your hands on this book because you believe you are part of the royal priesthood, but you’ve been allowing your reality to convince you that you’re small. Maybe you once had a compelling future, but it fell apart and it seems too risky to dream with God again; there’s too much to lose in another heartbreak or disappointment. Or maybe you sense something compelling is on the horizon, you actually really are hungry for it, but you can’t see it at all and fight through major resistance just to cling on to the mustard seed faith that you have. Wherever you find yourself, let me remind you that Egypt—where you’ve been or even where you are—is not your promised land. Where you are is exactly where you need to be, and you’re right on time. Even now, there is a promised land and a compelling future for you.

One year from now, everything could be different. You could access the person that you’re going to be and take consistent steps towards that future you. God wants to use you, and because He wants to use you, He will appear to you. In the case of Abram, he was an ordinary citizen. He was no different from his neighbors. Like his neighbors, he worshipped idols and believed in mythology, and yet, it was to this superstitious, sinful idol worshipper that God showed up. Why Abram? It was just grace. There was nothing that he did to earn this or to deserve this. God simply wanted to use him, and because He did, He appeared to him. He was chosen and blessed by God, and as a result of the relationship the two of them established, he became the one to whom God would reveal His secrets, steps, and keys. He became the one whom God would refer to as His friend. He was one of the first great intercessors that the Bible talks about. His prayer life caused Him to know God, and knowing God was important because knowing God gave Him the faith to step out and believe God.

Abram was a man of many convictions. He was a man of principle, he was a man of wealth, and he was a man who had lots of promises, and yet his hope was never in the promises; his hope was in the Promiser. He knew that as long as he clung to things that were material, he would never embrace the reality of the promises of God. Abram could have never become Abraham, he could never have become the father of the faithful, a mighty man of faith, if he continued to live his life where he had lived it in the seventy-five years before God initiated a plot twist.

In my life, I was hungry for redemption and for God to restore the years that were stolen from me. Those were years of being forced to grow up too quickly, years of carrying the burden and weight of others’ responsibilities, years of blindly suppressing my needs and desires, years of mistakes and heartbreaks, crushing fears and anxieties, losses and disappointments. Where was the compelling future you speak of, God? I had to admit, I was angry. It didn’t seem fair, and I’d often felt alone and as if I were out in the world flapping in the wind. What did I really have to show for my life? What was great about it? Where was the return on all of the investments? What I was experiencing felt more like the Ecclesiastes sentiment that all is vanity, and that’s no way to live. I share this because when you’re honest, you can start moving with God. God can handle your anger, your questions, and your anxieties, but He won’t restore what you don’t identify and bring to Him.

In my anger, I was met with a promise. It was the message of Isaiah 43 which is literally the promise of restoration. It was God soothing my soul and saying, Even now I am still God. Even now I am still at work and no one can hinder or reverse it. Even now I am making a way. That’s what it means to put Him in remembrance. Even when we drift out of alignment and start tuning ourselves to different things and settling into a lower expectation than God has, He doesn’t turn off His love or shift His focus, He affirms and assures us. His frequency isn’t one of confusion, doubt, fear, inconsistency, and condemnation. He is an unwavering flow of love, hope, grace, ease, pleasantness, peace, power, and life. In moments of hopelessness that’s what we need to invite in, remember, and allow to wash over us.

God flows with our best interest at heart. He holds His vision for our future even when we let it go. He also won’t let us drift to the point of no return. Think about your own life. If God had not pulled you out of some stuff, you would not be where you are today. God in His grace, and in His mercy, revealed Himself to you and ordered your steps. When God came to Abram, he had to lay his old self at the feet of God and walk away from his comfort zone because comfort and growth never coexist. In other words, in order to make an advancement for the kingdom of God, he had to lay some things down. If you’re ever going to step into your compelling future and have real advancement in the kingdom, it will involve laying down pieces and fragments and things that are dear to you, to consecrate yourself to God.

That can look like waking up knowing that there is a compelling future in front of you because God affirmed it and that the Spirit of God will help you even when you don’t feel like getting up and it looks as though nothing has changed. It can be investing in finishing the degree or taking the test. It can be asking for forgiveness. It can be mustering the courage to dream again. It could be crying, grieving, and healing. It could be stopping the acting and showing up authentically because deep down you want the more that God knows and has for you, and it’s greater than anything you could manipulate or manufacture. We have one life to live, and if we don’t have a compelling future, then we will end up doing what we didn’t want to do and living without actually really living.

Abram knew the importance of stopping and laying down his life as he knew it, because he knew that the place of separation from his past generational traits and