Today I want to talk to you about who you have become.

We wonder, well, what will I become in 2017? Maybe I will just become

the same, or maybe I will become a parent, married, or single. Maybe I

will become a graduate, or maybe I will become a student. Maybe I will

become more loyal, more forgiving, more successful, more skillful.

Athletes are becoming faster, stronger; entrepreneurs are becoming more

innovative, singers honing their craft to fine precision. We identify

what I want out of this year, or this life, then we become what is

necessary to get there. But there is a deeper more important "become" I

want to talk with you about today. It is the hidden unseen "become" that

you are that will change how you traverse the bridges on your way, and

will give you the invisible power of God to walk into things you would

have formerly abandoned. 2 Corinthians 5:17 (NKJV) says, "Therefore, if

anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away;

behold, all things have become new." The problem is too many Christians

are trying to "become" something, when instead they need to discover who

they already have become. How many want to see Christ manifest in your

2017? How many want to see Christ and the authority and procreative

power that He has armed us with manifest in our 2017? Whatever you are

trying to do in 2017 is going to become far easier if you first realize

who you are, that is, who you have already become. We cannot have

Christ's destination for our lives without Christ's manifestation in our

lives.