Then there's another one I was thinking of is the princess mask. Oh, some wear the princess mask. That's a lovely one. Everything has to be just right for me, everything has to be perfect, just perfect for me - so they control all their environment, try to make it all just sweet, just perfect, just nice. It's very, very nice. Then there's another one I thought of called the genie mask, you know the genie in the bottle, the genie comes out: Master, what can I do for you? So the genie mask - the person who's the genie, now their mission in life is I just serve everyone. I have no life of my own, I just serve. A lot of mothers put on the genie mask. They have no life of their own, lost who they were years ago: Master, what can I do? So they're serving, and they look so wonderful. They are wonderful people to have around. Do you know why they're wonderful to have around? Because they just help you, but in the midst of their helping, they're trying to find their identity.
Do you know what happens? They become very hurt, very resentful people. Do you know why? Because in all their serving, there was an agenda: I want to feel better about myself, I need you to say some nice words to me, and you never said them. Well we know about those ones? Whoa, a few of them - of course it's further down the road. Then I was thinking about some others, I was just trying to think of different kinds of masks - the fairy godmother. [Laughter] Comes to Cinderella, fairy godmothers have no needs of their own, they just know what to do, and they tell everyone else what to do, take over control of their life and make it happen for them. [Laughs] I'm sure you can think of many other masks. I was thinking of the Kiwi, and what a timid, shy bird that is, and some people wear a Kiwi mask. They just run away and hide, you can't see who they really are. You never really see them, you never really know them. Come on, think about some of these ones.
Some people are like a beaver, they're just buried in their work - work, work, work, work, work, work, work. Work, work, work, work, work. Who is that person? I don't know. Work, work, work, work, work. [Laughter] They have breakdowns too. In fact most of these people have breakdowns. You know why they have breakdowns? Because there's a big gap between who I am on the outside, and who I am on the inside, and there comes a point in your life when you begin to ask: I wonder who I am? Then you hate that there's such a gap, and it's very stressful, so take off the mask, be who you are. I don't know who I am! I just don't even know. See, that's the problem. When you try and take off the mask, at least you can identify the mask and take it off. The bigger issue is discovering who you are, and we'll deal with that again, when we look at changing how you believe, and what you believe about yourself.
You've got to stop wearing a mask, and stop trying to be someone. You're a Christian, you ought to be this! Oh, the Christian mask! [Laughter] Come on, burdened and having a breakdown inside. Really we're hurting, but they've got to be this lovely Christian. That's not real. The world wants you to put on your Christian masks, that's what they expect, but when you actually become authentic, they don't know how to handle it. [Laughs] But you're supposed to be a Christian. You're not supposed to have problems! Welcome to my world! [Laughter] Same as yours! [Applause] You know, come on, that's how it is, got to get that mask off. So how many could think of someone else, today as I gave out a list of a few masks? I'm sure you could come back next week, and bring up a few masks of your own. You probably have a whole - start to think about them and you'll start to recognise them: little beaver masks, and the genie masks, the Lone Ranger masks, and all kinds of masks.
You know what happens with quite a few of them? They end up helping people. They're lovely helping people, doctors, nurses, teachers, Pastors. [Laughter] Pastor mask! [Laughter] This is what life is like. I've been around, I've seen them everywhere. One of the problems when you move in the prophetic and deliverance, you tend to peel off the masks. [Laughs] Then you'll see that same person that had that - I remember being at one church there, and I started to pray for two people; one was a man, one was a woman, and they went down on the floor, rolled around, growled like dogs, and the woman Pastor was very shocked. She said are those demons? I said yes. [Laughter] She said: but they can't be, that's my Chief Deacon, [laughter] and that's my Head Intercessor. They're going wah-wah like this. They'd worn the masks to long, the demons got in and filled it all up in behind. [Laughter]