Who You Really Are

We all have insecurities. But those are NOT from God. The negative outlook we have on ourselves is not how God wants us to see ourselves. The enemy wants us to live upset, down and defeated because he wants us to constantly live wishing who we could be. God doesn't want that for us!!! He wants us to be what were called to be, what He has spoken over us! Do not let the lies of the enemy stick in your head. I have heard them and struggled them from such a young age, but the more I study and read who God says I am the more its engraved in my heart and I believe it and live it out. The enemy tries to blind us and distract us because when we know who we are, our identity, we have power in Christ. That scares him! I saw a teaching before that someone said they were nervous that they were about to speak in front of others and give a message. They were praying for God to settle their nerves. God revealed to them that God wasn't nervous about what was going to happen that night, the enemy was and the feelings of the enemy were coming on him as he was about to teach others about Jesus. Once he realized this it actually excited him that the enemy was nervous, because that meant God was going to show up BIG! He is always trying to steal joy and hope from us. Check out Ephesians 1. Were going to go through some of the promises of who we are, and in doing that destroy the work of the enemy in your life and mine!!!

Ephesians 1:3-14

Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ. For he chose us in him before creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love he predestined us to be adopted as his sons through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will to praise of his glorious grace, which he has freely give us in the One he loves. In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God's grace that lavished on us with all wisdom and understanding. And he made known to us the mystery of his will according to his good pleasure, which he purposed in Christ, to be put into effect when the times will have reached their fulfillment to bring all things in heaven on earth together under one head, even Christ. In him we are also chosen, having predestined according to the plan of him who works out everything conformity with the purpose of his will, in order that we who were the first to hope in Christ, might be for the praise of his glory. And you also were included in Christ when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation. Having believed, you were marked in him with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit, who is a deposit guaranteeing our inheritance until the redemption of those who are God's possession to the praise of his glory.

This is good news guys!!! We are sinners and don't deserve this, but God gives us this awesome gift anyway and we ought to take that to heart! Stop living defeated and letting the devil win when Jesus died so we could have VICTORY!!! 

1- We are blessed with every spiritual blessing in Christ!!! Jesus wants to bless you, even though you may have felt unworthy, you are worthy of God's love, because he sent his Son to die for you, he loves you that much!

2-Jesus chose us before the foundation of the world! He had you in mind. He loves you and put you on this earth for a reason. Lets find that purpose and BE it. I bet Jesus has awesome things for you to do for his kingdom, I think praying for those to be revealed so you can live those out is a good start :)

3-Holy and blameless in His sight. Who sees you like that? No one besides him! Not even the person you love most on this earth. They see your sin. God doesn't.

4-Adopted as sons and daughters through Jesus Christ. Wow. This blows me away even though we are imperfect he chooses to see us through Jesus, and adopts us as his own. If we lived like we were His sons and daughters it would be life changing.

5-We are redeemed and forgiven. The definition of redeemed means gain or regain possession of something in exchange for payment. Jesus payed the price for us. So our sin could no longer separate us from the love of God, but let us have a relationship with him in which we are forgive and FREE!!

6- Lavished in His grace. He bestowed generously the free and unmerited favor of God on us. We have the favor of God on us generously!! When we accept God we gain these awesome promises and I don't want you to miss them. I don't want us to live like the enemy has his grip on us, while we believe the lies he puts in our heads and hearts. Lets clear that crap out and just rest in the lavishing grace of God.

7-Predestined. When we have a relationship with Jesus, we are predestined to an eternity with him in heaven. This is an amazing promise!

8-Marked the promise of the Holy Spirit. When we come into this relationship we also receive the Holy Spirit which is an amazing gift. He is our counselor, and many other things. He is God-breathed, and living in us. The more we are in touch with this promise the more the power of God is in our lives.

I know its a lot to take in, especially in just a couple short verses, but soak it in. The enemy tells us the opposite of these things...example: You are cursed, you'll never experience blessing in your life....No one cares you exist, your life has not point or purpose....God sees all your faults and doesn't love you because your unloveable....How could you possible be a son or daughter of God look at you....There is no way God can forgive you, look what you've done....God's favor is only on those who are "strong Christians" not you....your destiny is hell...You can't feel the spirit of God because he chose not to come to you.... these are some lies you might be hearing, but the key word here is LIES. Erase those with the truth of GOD!!! Your BLESSED, CHOSEN, BLAMELESS, HIS CHILD, FORGIVEN, LAVISHED IN GRACE, PREDESTINED, MARKED IN HIM. HALLELUJAH!  

prayer:

Lord, bring to surface those lies the enemy planted in me so I can demolish them with your truth and promises! Bring light in the dark places and let me live in victory. Thank you for your gift that I did nothing to deserve, but you love me so much that you give it to me anyway. I love you!

AMEN!