You are a new creation IN CHRIST! What does that look like in your daily life? You can expect miracles! You can confidently expect the best and believe the best! You can love and have compassion on others without hesitation, because you have been given God’s love poured out into your heart! All of this means you can make a difference in your world, no matter how big or small!
Imagine with me for a moment what God has done for each one of us. He’s made us totally new creations by putting us into Christ. He’s rewired us with the mind of Christ, and poured His love into our hearts. He has pledged to do the work in us to want to do and do the things that please Him. We are born of the Spirit—righteous, fresh and alive to a loving, joy giving God! (Galatians 2:20; 1 Cor. 2:16; Romans 5:5; Phil. 2:13)
You have the same faith that Jesus has. It is a faith that has confidence in the unseen and is not based on any evidence other than the Word of God. This faith moves mountains and brings answers to prayer!
Psalm 105:37 tells us that God brought the tribes of Israel out of Egypt with silver and gold, and there were none feeble among them. We have been born again through the Lion of Judah, Jesus Christ, and are now of His tribe, the tribe of Judah! We, too, have been brought out of slavery, and provision has been made that there should be none feeble among us either!
Scripture tells us in Ephesians 1:6 that we are seated together in heavenly places IN Christ Jesus. That’s not a future promise, it’s a present reality that will help you greatly as you navigate the challenges we face on this earth. Our position in Christ is secure, and if we will look at ourselves and the things around us from God’s true perspective, we will take our dominion over the mountains and the enemies against us and change things!
The world is constantly delivering its diagnoses, prognoses and projections of our future to us, so it is absolutely crucial that God’s Word be the louder voice and the unshakeable truth we’re continually living in and from. When it is, in faith we will rise up and roar, “My expectation is in the Lord God Almighty, the creator of the heavens and the earth, the one who lives within me, the one who believes in me and who is my provider, my healer and my covenant!”
The devil tries to rob us of our inheritance in Christ, trying to deceive us with lies and fears. He attempts to turn our attention to our failures, weaknesses and symptoms in areas such as our health—but remember, you are not “trying” to be healed. You are ALREADY healed, because God’s Word declares that Jesus already paid every penalty to set us free. By the stripes of Jesus you already ARE healed! (Isaiah 53:5, 1Peter 2:24)!
Romans 8:32 tells us: “He who did not spare His own Son, but gave Him up for us all—how will He not also, along with Him [Jesus], graciously give us all things?” You don’t have to pay for it, you don’t have to crawl on your knees until they’re bloody to show God you’re willing to pay a price to receive His grace. No, the bloody knees were on Jesus. God has freely given us all things because of the blood of Jesus Christ!
“…when you received the word of God which you heard from us, you welcomed it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which also effectively works in you who believe” (1 Thess. 2:13). It doesn’t say we and our own efforts are effectively working in us, it says the Word of God that we trust and believe is doing the work—regardless of what our senses or other people are saying!
“I set before you today life and prosperity, death and destruction” (Deut. 30:15). What are YOU speaking today? If it’s flu season, we’re not participating just because it’s coming around. If people are coming down with some new ailment, we’re not participating because we know in whom we have believed! And we are confident that He is able to do super abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that is working on the inside of us! (Eph. 3:20)
