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You Are Who God Says that You Are

8/21/2017

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1 Peter 2:9 But you are not like that, for you are a chosen people. You are royal priests, a holy nation, God’s very own possession. As a result, you can show others the goodness of God, for he called you out of the darkness into his wonderful light.

10 “Once you had no identity as a people;
          now you are God’s people.
      Once you received no mercy;
          now you have received God’s mercy.”

 
Only your Heavenly Father can bestow upon you your truest identity and in Christ alone is your inheritance revealed.
 
In Christ, you are purposed to receive, to live, to move in, and to share from, the overflow of His exceeding abundance and transcendence, as is declared over, and poured into, your life through God’s Word.
 
In The Father's love you are not entitled to live with reckless decadence, but in His authority, to thrive in the unrestrained freedom and fullness of joy, a life not measured by its prohibitions but by our Father’s invitation into abundance through His Son.
 
You are infused with power and only conquered by confidence and occupied by inexpressible joy.
 
You are created by a transcendent God who made you unique, and filled you with His Spirit, making you one with those whose names are inscribed in heaven by the signature of the Father, written in Holy blood.  You are raised up in spirit to live beyond the reaches of mere and measured existence. You are empowered by the same Spirit, to be a World Changer and not merely an adherent to someone’s branding, bound to an assignment to that which is vain and soon extinguished. You are not a resident in the wasteland of mediocrity.  You are led by God’s presence to still waters, green pastures, and life eternal, undeterred by the storms of life. Eternity lives within you, not in the distant future but from the moment of your spiritual birth in Christ, your days here were seamlessly woven into timeless eternity
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1 Comment
Deb
8/24/2017 07:13:24 pm

Beautifully written...love this!
This is one I will read often.
Thank you Pastor Rick!

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