What are you speaking over yourself today? That is a very important mindset to have every single day, the methods that we use every single day to get ourselves motivated, and to remember who we are in our identity, in Christ, whether you're a believer or not, is what you believe about yourself.
Because as Christians, pastors, leaders, whatever, right, you have your belief in God, but then there's beliefs that you have about yourself, and so that's where it's imperative to remind yourself what you are speaking over yourself every single day. Now, what does that mean, “to be speaking it over you?”
And I'm not talking about some fluffy statement, like, “I'm going to be a multi-billionaire in two days.” That’s just way out of reach!
What I want to address today, is the identity that we have in Christ Jesus.
I am a coach that is able to help you find your freedom in Christ, in order to understand who, you are and your identity! Reach out to me if you would like to have a complementary session, and I'll get back to you. You just may need someone to help you to understand what your identity is. You may say to yourself at times, "what's my identity? I go to church, I'm reading the Bible, I'm quoting Scripture, I'm doing the right things, I'm giving my tithe and my offering, I'm preaching, I'm ministering I'm going to the street I'm feeding the homeless, I'm doing all of those things, but I really don't know who I am.”
This is where the part of quoting scripture is very important and personal when you claim the I Am statements into your atmosphere. I've had people tell me, or have heard it in conversation, that using I Am statements is pretty much taking God out of the equation, and I'm like, “No, it's not... How is it taking God out of the equation? If you're quoting scripture over your body, over your mind, over your Spirit?”
We’ve got to remember that the word of God is living, and it is promise. So, when He says, “They overcame by the blood of the lamb and the word of their testimony”, then we in fact can make that personal, because we are they! And when we begin to comprehend and absorb what God has promised us, then we will activate the belief and the truth that the God that lives in Jesus, is the God that lives in us! He is the Great I Am and makes us great to be able to persevere and overcome the challenges that are set before us!
Christ didn’t only come to give us eternal life, but He came to give us power to withstand the things on earth as well! Yes, for redemption, but He also rose from the grave, to show us that we have power and that's where so many of us miss it in Christianity, right? We allow any little thing to distract us from the promises of God. We don't want to get organized; we don't want to be structured; we don't want to listen to anybody because we forget who we are.
Now some of you out there may be saying to yourself, “That doesn't even make sense, that you don't want to listen to nobody because you don't know who you are?” Here’s what we need to come to understand, when a person doesn't know who they are, they're going to cast off restraint. Because if I know who I am, there's a certain humility that I must have, there's a certain humbleness that I must carry, and there's a certain character that I must strive for. There's an integrity. And so when you push those things off when you're being corrected or you're being convicted by the Holy Spirit, what you're really saying is, “that's not who I am, I'm going to do whatever I want to do because this is the pattern that I've always been used to.” But see, when you come to Christ, there's a radical change, there ought to be a change in your spirit, a change in your mind, a change in the way you do things.
Now, don't get me wrong, we all fail, we all have some things that come out of our mouths that probably shouldn't come out. We all have...
