There are two things essential to humankind’s sense of well-being. First, we must feel secure, and second, we need to feel significant. Our security is tied to our relationship with Jesus, while our significance is tied to our impact on our world. When we realize that there are people who God has prepared for us to speak to, and that every life is important to Him, then our value is enhanced. What we do has an eternal impact!
If you are born again, the abundant life in Christ has already been given to you. God has already done it! There’s nothing you have to “get” because you already have it—but if you don’t know what you have, the enemy will continue stealing the fruit of it from you. This is why it’s so important to read your Bible! Once you learn what belongs to you—you can believe it by faith, speak it out and stand strong in it. It WILL come!
The thing standing between God and humanity was sin, and God removed that sin by laying it all upon Jesus. Now the devil has nothing in you, just as he had nothing in Jesus. The sin problem is fixed and your enemies have been cleared away (Zeph. 3:15). Now Jesus’ life is your life, His purpose is your purpose, His redemption is your redemption, and His resurrection is your resurrection!
Jesus suffered for all your diseases instead of you. He has already crucified all your sicknesses and diseases. Through the sacrifice of Jesus Christ, you and I are completely healed from every sickness! The Bible says so in Isaiah 53 and 1 Peter 2:24. This IS the will of God for you!
Do you see yourself as a totally new creation, or are you still thinking and living like the old, sin dominated person that Jesus went to the cross and gave His life to destroy? Apostle Paul said, “It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me” (Galatians 2:20). This is what celebrating Resurrection Day is all about!
When you are in Christ, the devil and his minions have no authority or power over you. They can’t hurt you and must do as you say, because you’re acting in the place of Jesus when you speak in His name. Jesus put Satan under, judged him and cast him out, and demons know that they have to flee at His name!
Jesus doesn’t reign in some political system or church denomination, He is reigning in you and me! If you are born again, His peace, righteousness and joy are now a part of your life. There may be darkness all around you, but you are light because the light giver has His home within you. There may be curses all around you but you are blessed! There may be bondage all around you but you are free!
Salvation means so much more than being heaven bound and saved from eternal judgment. Yes, salvation is deliverance from sin—but that deliverance doesn’t stop there! It brings with it healing for our bodies, peace for our minds, joy in our soul, and the confident awareness that we are loved, protected and cared for beyond any human ability. This is New Creation living!
When you speak what God says, meditating on the verses and allowing the Lord to write them on your heart, the power of His Word works in you and through you to push out the wrong thinking habits of the old man. Eventually there’s no old man left, and you’re living and walking in the real, New Creation you!
Our New Creation life holds no more uncertainty about our future, or of any repercussions from our past. We live in the NOW, allowing GOD to work in us and transform us into the image of Christ. “And the Lord—who is the Spirit—makes us more and more like Him as we are changed into His glorious image” (2 Cor 3:18 NLT).
