Prayer: Lord you are so good and your ways are so far above my ways. Lead me today in your ways for my life. Help me be about your business Father God. Its in the name of Jesus I pray. Amen
Verse of the Day: " Now if we are children, then we are heirs-heris of God and coheirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory." Romans 8:17
Worship Song: Friend of God by Michael Gungor and Israel Houghton
Today I want to talk a bit about or Identity in Christ. There are so many verses that point to who God says we are. They gave us this paper at boot camp with our identity in Christ on it. I am going to share that with you and then talk about what we can do to find our specific identity in the Lord's army.
My Identity in Christ
I am a child of the king, a joint-heir with Jesus.
All that Jesus bought and paid for is my inheritance.
Jesus redeemed me from hell and gave me a new destiny.
I am saved by grace through faith in Christ.
I have great worth apart from my peformance because Christ gave his life for me.
I am deeply loved, fully pleasing, totally forgiven, accepted, and complete in Christ.
I am one with Christ.
I have died with Christ, was buried with Christ, and raised with Christ to walk in new life and renewed fellowship with God the Father.
I carry the authority of Christ-- Authority over sickness, over demons, over sin, and over the world.
I am the light of the world.
Christ in me displaces the darkness of my old life.
Because I am one with Jesus, I am righteous.
I am holy.
I am a saint of God.
I am a new creation.
The old is gone, I have been made new.
I have spiritual weapons and armor, given by God and divinely powerful, to tear down strongholds of darness and build strongholds of righteousness in their place.
Because I am one with Jesus, I can resist the devil and he will flee from me.
I can do all things through Christ who is my strength.
I can live a vicorious life because greater is He who is in me than he who is in the world.
The same Spirit of Power who raised Jesus from the dead lives in me!
That was long I know but its important to know these things about who God says you are. If you ever doubt your worth or Satan is telling you that your not worthy recite those things out loud and call Satan out as the lier he is. You tell Satan what God says about him that he has a future of eternal punishment in the lake of fire.
Now for what we can do to find out our specific identity in Christ. There are several times in the bible where God gave someone a new name that better identified them after a call from God on their life. Abram became Abraham when he was to made the father of the nations, Saul became Paul when he found new life in Christ, Jacob was renamed Israel when he wrestled with the Angel of the Lord, Simon became Peter when Jesus called him.
We all have a name in Christ Jesus. When you accepted Christ you became a new creation and Christ gave you a purpose. Its time to seek that purpose. Sit and meditate quietly and listen for God to speak to you. Ask God who he says you specifically are and see what God reveals to you. This is something we did at boot camp and can be powerfully revealing for you to know perhaps some of your spiritual gifts or even your direct purpose in the church. It could come to you as an actual name or perhaps a phrase. God may even say your current name fits who you are in him.
I was given my name in my first boot camp four years ago. I got the phrase Worship Warrior which lines up heavily with my spirit. As I have said, when I worship it is the closest I ever feel towards God. My soul rejoices in worshiping the Father. The warrior part took me a bit by suprise but it shouldn't really as we are all called to be warriors in the kingdom. Also its a good parallel to how in Israel the worshippers and priests would go out in front of the battle. I am interested to know what name you may be given by God. If you feel a strong urging from God about your name then tell me about. Email me or leave a comment.
Well we have come to the end of another post. I have to say I am having fun writing this blog and it has helped me a lot with how I seek to draw closer to and worship God. I hope you have been equally blessed. Well until tomorrow may you be ever blessed by Lion of Judah and all praise to him who sits on the throne.
Your Brother in Christ,
Brian
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