The second you were born again, the old you was legally taken away and nailed to the cross. The OLD you is DEAD—you now possess the resurrected life of Christ. Sometimes though, our old habits of thinking and responding still need to be rewired. The good news is, your thinking can be transformed into God’s thoughts and responses when you allow Him to help you renew your mind with His Word! (Romans 12:1-2)

Don’t fall into the comparison trap! It restricts you and can hold you prisoner in a very small cell. When you stop comparing yourself to others you set yourself free to become truly exceptional!

Even if you received some faulty genes from your ancestors, the corrupted blood line of Adam ended when you received Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior. Now you are of the bloodline and DNA of your heavenly Father! Seeds of greatness now live inside you! He is always thinking of you—He sees you through your amazing potential!

“There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment. But he who fears has not been made perfect [complete, mature] in love” (1 John 4:18, brackets mine). When we’re fully walking in Christ and understanding the amazing depth of God’s love for us, the fears are gone. All of His peace and joy and love and kindness and goodness are constantly flowing out of us and into our lives. The world doesn’t know this kind of real love, but it’s the life the Father meant us to live, and the Gospel we’re supposed to be preaching!

People spend half their life trying to feel worthy to be God’s representative, then the other half wondering if they’re doing it right. Jesus isn’t calling you to do something beyond you, because you aren’t doing it in your own ability, you’re doing it in HIS. HE qualifies you and equips you by putting HIS Spirit IN you!

Righteousness, growing up into Christ and being transformed into His image, is something that is given to us in Christ and already ours! Side by side along with this are the blessings—all of God’s goodness—and Him at work within us, causing us to both want to do and do the things that please Him! (Philippians 2:13)

Many people, Christians included, don’t comprehend that God wants to be intimately involved with their lives and destiny. They don’t realize that because the sin of mankind has been eternally removed by the blood of Jesus, God can now impart Himself into every born-again believer. His DNA flowing through their veins, and with His DNA comes His unlimited potential for them!

Say what God says! Reciting His promises and thanking Him for all the amazing things He has done for you in Christ is the heart of true praise and worship. “I will bless the LORD at all times; His praise shall continually be in my mouth” (Psalm 34:1).

Since the fall of Adam the image of God has been distorted little by little, like a photocopy where each copy is a little less clear than the copy before it. Eventually the image is barely recognizable, until fresh toner is installed and the image becomes crisp and clear again. If your walk with God has become faded and lacking clarity, only the Word of God can give you fresh perspective and a clear view of the exciting, limitless life that has been set before you in Christ!

We don’t come into the throne room telling God about who we used to be in Adam and crying for things He’s already given to us. No! Speaking the Word of God from our lips about who He has made us to be and how He sees us, what He has done for us, accomplished and given to us is the TRUE and SINCERE praise and worship that the Father desires from us! “I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship” (Romans 12:1).