{"id":13344,"date":"2023-01-09T19:08:54","date_gmt":"2023-01-09T19:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ministry-strategies.org\/testimony\/?p=13344"},"modified":"2023-04-20T17:48:35","modified_gmt":"2023-04-20T17:48:35","slug":"embracing-your-true-identity-in-christ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ministry-strategies.org\/testimony\/embracing-your-true-identity-in-christ\/","title":{"rendered":"Embracing Your True Identity In Christ"},"content":{"rendered":"

For in Christ lives all the fullness of God in a human body,<\/span> and in Christ, you have been brought to fullness. He is the head over every power and authority<\/span>\u00a0(Colossians 2:9)<\/strong><\/em>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.<\/span> Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.<\/span> For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God.<\/span> When Christ, who is your\u00a0<\/span>life, appears, then you also will appear with Him in glory (Colossians 3:1-4)<\/strong><\/em>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with Him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, in order that in the coming ages He might show the incomparable riches of His grace, expressed in His kindness to us in Christ Jesus (Ephesians 2:6-7)<\/strong><\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

For God has not given us a spirit of fear and timidity but of power, love, and self-control (2 Timothy 1:7)<\/strong><\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Jesus answered,\u00a0I AM the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me (John 14:6)<\/strong><\/em>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

If we have become one with Christ in His death, we will be one with Him in being raised from the dead to new life (Romans 6:5)<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0But now you have new life because of Jesus Christ our Lord. You are living this new life for God.<\/span><\/p>\n

Through these He has given us His very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature, having escaped the corruption in the world caused by evil desires (2 Peter 1:4)<\/strong><\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own (1 Corinthians 6:19<\/span>).<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Do you not know that he who unites himself with a prostitute is one with her in body? For it is said, \u201cThe two will become one flesh.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/sup>But whoever is united with the Lord is one with Him in spirit (1 Corinthians 6:16-17)<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Father of all glory, Father of all greatness of splendor, the Great Glory, Eternal Father, and gracious and merciful Father, You are in me, and I am in You also because my life is hidden with Jesus who is my life deep in You (John 14:6<\/strong>). <\/span><\/p>\n

LORD God Almighty, You and I are One in spirit through Christ Jesus in perfect unity by Your Spirit who has bestowed upon me Your own life that is flowing limitlessly through Christ within the person You want me to be in my own spirit (John 17:20-23<\/strong>). <\/span><\/p>\n

I acknowledge that the eternal life that I have comes from You. Jesus is the means through whom I get access to it by receiving it by faith on the basis of His atonement. The Holy Spirit is the One who releases it into me. <\/span><\/p>\n

After saving me, You Yourself seat me with You through Christ Jesus on Your right hand of Your throne in heavenly places in the place of honor, authority, power, dominion, and glory<\/em> by the infinite power of the Holy Spirit.<\/span><\/p>\n

My regenerated spirit is now operating in the heavenly realms of the\u00a0Absolute<\/em><\/strong>,\u00a0Allness<\/em><\/strong>, Supremacy<\/strong><\/em>,\u00a0Sovereignty<\/strong><\/em>,\u00a0Eternity, <\/em><\/strong>and<\/em>\u00a0all<\/em>\u00a0Satisfaction\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>being God Almighty Himself far beyond the mind, emotion, will, flesh, and the natural realm.<\/span><\/p>\n

This place where You seat me through Christ is infinitely above\u00a0all principality, and power, and might, and dominion. It’s, in fact, the center of all authority, power, might, and dominion. <\/span><\/p>\n

I now have the awesome privilege to operate in a dimension far above the world, the flesh, and the devil by living a holy and righteous life for Your glory as king and priest in the Kingdom of God Almighty.<\/span><\/p>\n

I thank You for that undeserved privilege granted to me through Christ Jesus. I lay a hold on that colossal privilege in order to make it become meaningful, purposeful, and transformative in my life. So I pray that You empower me to lead a life before You that reflects that awesome privilege.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Through the indwelling presence of the Holy Spirit, You sit on that same throne with Christ Jesus my Savior and Lord on Your right hand in my own spirit waiting to rule over every domain of my life. <\/span><\/p>\n

Your desire is for Your indwelling presence to radically transform my life from the inside out. <\/span><\/p>\n

By faith, I connect my whole life to that divine presence radiating Your glory<\/em>\u00a0in my spirit by subjecting my own soul to You. Within that presence dwells Your infinite authority and power. <\/span><\/p>\n

I want to make Your divine presence\u00a0become preeminent in my life by being consciously aware of it and by subjecting myself to You, Father God. I want that presence dwelling in my spirit to permeate both my soul and body.<\/span><\/p>\n

I understand that true life is based solely on me being connected to You\u00a0so that I can receive Your\u00a0rich provision for my spirit, soul, and body. <\/span><\/p>\n

By faith, I receive all of Your delicious nourishment, provision, and support.\u00a0I want Your greatness, glory, power, and dominion to engulf every aspect of my life, LORD God.<\/span><\/p>\n

Through Christ, I’ve been brought to fullness. In Him, I am a heavyweight individual with the Godhead present in my life within my spirit. <\/span><\/p>\n

I’m not just anybody. The Holy Spirit dwelling into my regenerated\u00a0spirit is\u00a0releasing Your\u00a0life in me, so I have the life of God Almighty flowing mightily in me. As Your\u00a0life\u00a0flows in me, Your\u00a0nature and character are released in me as well.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Besides, I’m not some type of toy with remote control in the hand of the enemy by which he can somehow play game with me. I have You Father God with Christ Jesus reigning in my spirit to effectively demonstrate Your\u00a0own dominion in this physical realm. <\/span><\/p>\n

The greatest fear of the enemy is when I am walking in the fullness of whom I am in You. I am strong and powerful in You.<\/span><\/p>\n

I need to remind myself of that reality day and night. I need to think about it, believe it, meditate on it, cherish it, embrace it, and act in accordance with it.\u00a0I’m a child of the Most High God.\u00a0I am declared holy and righteous through the merit of Jesus. <\/span><\/p>\n

I’m not only made in the image of God, I am in fact the image of God through which His glory can be reflected upon. <\/span><\/p>\n

Through the regenerating work of the Holy Spirit, I have the very nature of God Almighty, the very imprint of His being and existence residing within me.<\/span><\/p>\n

I am a living, energetic, explosive, electrifying, radiant, luminous, fiery, thunderous, and glorious type of being releasing mighty waves of power in the spirit.<\/span><\/p>\n

I have the glory of God, which is His fullness, the manifestation of His holiness, righteousness, and all divine perfections, His divine reactions of His eternal substance of being, and the very embodiment of His divine presence and power in my life.<\/span><\/p>\n

I have His divine vibration, His waves of divine energy, His infinite furnace of consuming fire, His blazing rays of light, and His explosive bolt of lightnings of His being in my life.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the mighty name of Jesus, I pray. <\/span><\/p>\n

Amen.<\/span><\/p>\n

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May the power of the name of Jesus be one with my voice since You and I are One. May my voice resound in the submarine world.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Power Of The Name Of Jesus<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

When you issue a command in the name of Jesus, you invoke the very Entity Himself behind that name to act as He wills.<\/span><\/p>\n

In other words, you simply stand behind the Entity Himself who has supreme authority, power, and dominion under His mighty hand. In other words, under whom supreme authority, power, and dominion in heaven and on earth resides in its fullest extent which He has given all who believe in Him access to.<\/span><\/p>\n

It’s His greatest pleasure when His followers know how much authority, power, and dominion being made available to them through Him for them to exercise over and against the kingdom of Satan.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Father has delegated everything to the Son. All authority and power in heaven and on earth has been given to Jesus by the Father.<\/span><\/p>\n

Everything the Father has belongs to the Son. Thereby, all\u00a0<\/span>His fullness of being, all the divine essence, all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge, all the power, all the greatness, all the effulgence of the glory of the Father, of the human race, and of all things\u00a0belong to the Son.<\/span><\/p>\n

He is in all things that concern the Deity, One and equal with the Father in every way.\u00a0In fact, He’s the Agent through whom the Father fulfills His will.<\/span><\/p>\n

Since He’s supreme over all creation; His name is a direct representation of whom He is as a being who is coequal with the Father; a being who is the exact imprint of God the Father; a being who shares the same glory, the same shining greatness with God the Father; therefore, His name has absolute authority, power, and dominion over everything.<\/span><\/p>\n

It’s not just all about the name only, but about the very person who stands behind it.<\/span><\/p>\n

If Jesus is the Word of God, His responsibility is to decree the will of God by speaking it into existence at the consent of the Father.<\/span><\/p>\n

(Since the name of Jesus is the name of the living God Himself which He later gave to the Son as a gift, it’s clear that the name of Jesus was used when the Son spoke all things in existence in order to activate and unleash the power of God<\/span> Almighty<\/em>).<\/span><\/p>\n

The Holy Spirit is responsible to establish, enforce, and materialize the will of God.<\/span><\/p>\n

As Scripture declares it, God has exalted His Word above all His name, it means that the very Entity, the Son of the living God\u00a0who stands behind the name of Jesus is exalted above all the name of God Himself.<\/span><\/p>\n

The glorified Son as the Word of God, the very embodiment of God’s will, and character, the very Agent through whom He created all things is exalted above the name of Jesus which is a name that’s above every name due to the fact that God cannot go against His Word since His Word is as sacred as He is.<\/span><\/p>\n

He’s exalted above God’s own authority, power, dominion, and reputation. He’s exalted above all things.<\/span><\/p>\n

At last, the person who stands behind that name is exalted above the supreme authority, power, and dominion that comes with that name.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Word (Jesus) is supreme over the spiritual and physical universe. The Word is supreme over time, space, and matter.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Word is supreme over time: past, present, and future. The Word is supreme over space: length, width, and height or depth. The Word is supreme over all matters: solid, liquid, and gas.<\/span><\/p>\n

Everything was created through and by the Word Christ Jesus. The Word is both within the creation to sustain it continually and outside of it to rule over it.<\/span><\/p>\n

The creative and sustaining power of Jesus’ Words is operational in all aspects of creation.<\/p>\n

Lord Jesus, Lord of lords, and King of kings, King of glory, King of the spirits, and Master of masters, I magnify Your Almighty name by acknowledging every bit of the infinite divine power and authority of heaven and earth that back it up. <\/span><\/p>\n

That name is given to You as a monumental gift by Your beloved Father. Your name is connected to whom You really are; in other words, it defines whom you are as Savior, Lord, and sustainer of all created things. Therefore, when invoking Your name, I’m not just invoking just a name but the very person stands behind that name.<\/span><\/p>\n

I want Your all-powerful name to be as powerful as it truly is in my entire life Lord of hosts against the forces of evil reigning on this earth while You’re reigning in both heaven and on earth in a dimension infinitely above the satanic realm. <\/span><\/p>\n

The enemy has no hold on You and Your authority.\u00a0Instead, the devil and his acolytes are in total subjection to Your authority. They cannot withstand the massive and devastating power emanating when Your name is invoked.<\/span><\/p>\n

Heavenly Father, I don’t want to exercise authority as someone who is totally ignorant and naive about the supreme authority and power of Jesus’ name, Your beloved Son in whom You’ve invested Your whole being. <\/span><\/p>\n

I don’t want that to become a routine while I don’t consciously take into consideration the very essence of that name. A name that encompasses all authority and power of heaven and earth altogether cannot be taken lightly. That’s why I want that name to be as powerful as it truly is in my life, particularly against the power of the devil.<\/span><\/p>\n

Glorious Father, I’ve come to realize that the name of Jesus fully activates and unleashes Your infinite authority, power, and might which You’ve invested immeasurably into the Son which manifest plainly through the Holy Spirit.<\/span><\/p>\n

Therefore, in all authority and power of Jesus’ name by which\u00a0the things we can see and the things we can’t see were all created\u00a0\u2014\u00a0such as thrones, kingdoms, rulers, and authorities in both the invisible and visible world. The very name by which everything is held together, I take complete authority against…<\/span><\/p>\n

Your True Identity In God<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n

I used to lead a hypocritical life, a double life. But now, this life is under my feet. I now have authority and power over this life by the grace of God.<\/span><\/p>\n

Keep in mind, your relationship with God starts from your spirit the moment you come to Christ. Therefore, the Christian life that you have to live starts out from your regenerated spirit by the power of the Holy Spirit in accordance with the atonement of Jesus Christ.<\/span><\/p>\n

You have a Chrislike personality being imparted in your regenerated spirit in the form of a seed, which is the very embodiment of your Christian life. That personality has to grow and grow and take over your whole being by repelling the old sinful life you used to live.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Next, it has to go straight to your soul through the renewal of your mind. That personality is in perfect harmony with the Word of God. Therefore, the soul must be in proper alignment with the Word in order for that personality\u00a0to pervade every aspect of the soul.<\/span><\/p>\n

At last, this personality has to manifest outwardly through your body. There must genuine transformation that takes place in your life, particularly in your behavior, attitude, and so on.<\/span><\/p>\n

Did you know that your true identity in God has absolutely nothing to do with whom you are in people\u2019s sight? <\/span><\/p>\n

Your true identity in God is exactly the person within your regenerated spirit He wants you to be. Your spirit is the innermost part of your being.<\/span><\/p>\n

It’s the person He wants you to be when you are at home, either alone or with family members, when you are with friends, when you are at work, when you are out of your spouse\u2019s sight, or when you are at your most secret place or moment, not whom you fabricate yourself to be in the presence of those who know you. <\/span><\/p>\n

It all starts with whom you truly are when people who know you cannot see you. In short, your true identity in God is the person He desires for you to be in every situation.<\/span><\/p>\n

The problem is that since you just don\u2019t want to be whom God wants you to be due to sin when you\u2019re out of people\u2019s sight, then the enemy has given you another identity, which cannot be revealed openly, especially to those who know you to have been someone else throughout their close relationship with you over the years.<\/span><\/p>\n

Then you have to pretend that you\u2019re the person that you fabricate yourself to be in people\u2019s sight in order to deceive them with the sole intent of keeping them from finding out your true identity. <\/span><\/p>\n

The bottom line is that you cannot have two identities at once. But if you were willing to be whom God truly wants you to be in every situation, you would have no problem of letting it come out in people\u2019s sight.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

People should know who we are as children of God in accordance with whom He wants us to be, not according to whom we want or choose to be, which has no biblical basis.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

The main reaaon it is all about what God has already done on our behalf on the cross as well as what He’s willing to do in order transform us in the likeness of His Son Christ Jesus.<\/span><\/p>\n

Beloved, God wants us to have one identity. That identity pertains to whom we should be on the inside, the center of our being in the light of His regenerating work. <\/span><\/p>\n

You see, if there\u2019s inner purity, it will create such a strong desire for holiness and righteousness. And there\u2019s absolutely nothing to hide when our lives are producing these types of fruits. <\/span><\/p>\n

The light of God shining within is going to manifest through our behavior. But if the inside is filled with wickedness, it will create an ongoing desire toward sinful things in order to feed it, thus causing us to keep on hiding something if we don’t want people to find out.<\/span><\/p>\n

We should be much more concerned about how God sees us instead of trying to impress others when knowing that we’re being hypocritical to ourselves.<\/span><\/p>\n

Well, that\u2019s where I was at one point. And it\u2019s one of the most troubling situations to find yourself in since there\u2019s no inner peace and joy. Not only that, you\u2019re walking out there feeling empty and guilty because you know that your life isn\u2019t right with God.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Grace and peace to you from him who is, and who was, and who is to come, and from the seven spirits[a] before his throne, 5 and from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth.<\/p>\n

To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood, 6 and has made us to be a kingdom and priests to serve his God and Father\u2014to him be glory and power for ever and ever! Amen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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