Monday 24 August 2009

Maybe the reason you dont feel good is because you haven't given yourself permission

Positive Power Card; Maybe the reason you dont feel good is because you haven't given yourself permission

The way we were before we were saved;
1Pe 4:3 You spent enough time in the past doing what unbelievers like to do. You were promiscuous, had sinful desires, got drunk, went to wild parties, and took part in the forbidden worship of false gods.

To be reborn;
"Christ in me" is the partnership we have received at the very moment that we were reborn
1Co 1:30 You are partners with Christ Jesus because of God. Jesus has become our wisdom sent from God, our righteousness, our holiness, and our ransom from sin.

The nature of Christ in me gives the in us the characteristics of Christ. This in now our true identity!
Gal 5:22 But the spiritual nature produces love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

The working of the cross; In Christ we are new creations
2Co 5:17 Whoever is a believer in Christ is a new creation. The old way of living has disappeared. A new way of living has come into existence.

We are newly created persons with a new identity, a reborn person with the nature of Christ in us. God looks at us and sees Christ in us. We are indeed Christ before GOD. We are children of GOD.

Jesus was crucified, also buried, brought back to life and now is given the authority to rule over heaven and earth.

At the time we were reborn, how?
Rom 10:9 If you declare that Jesus is Lord, and believe that God brought him back to life, you will be saved.

we were crucified with Him,
Rom 6:6 We know that the person we used to be was crucified with him to put an end to sin in our bodies. Because of this we are no longer slaves to sin.

buried with Him,
Col 2:12 This happened when you were placed in the tomb with Christ through baptism. In baptism you were also brought back to life with Christ through faith in the power of God, who brought him back to life.

brought back to life with Him,
Gal 2:20 I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live I live by believing in God's Son, who loved me and took the punishment for my sins.

and is with Him in the heaven.
Eph 2:6 God has brought us back to life together with Christ Jesus and has given us a position in heaven with him.

Is it then true that we still have a sinful nature?
No! ...to be reborn means that our old sinful nature is been replaced from that moment forward with the nature of Christ, our then now true identity!.
1Jn 3:9 Those who have been born from God don't live sinful lives. What God has said lives in them, and they can't live sinful lives. They have been born from God.


What about sinful things we still do?
We have to bring what we do wrong to GOD. We must ask Him for forgiveness. We must confess what we do wrong. We must recognize that what we have done wrong, is already dealt with by the cross.

What about the skeletons?
Communicate with GOD. Bring it to the cross. Confess and recognize that it we dealt with by the blood of Jesus, by the cross.

and..
If we confess and recognise, then we proclaim the power of the cross over what we do wrong, over all our history, over all our skeletons.
1Jn 1:7 But if we live in the light in the same way that God is in the light, we have a relationship with each other. And the blood of his Son Jesus cleanses us from every sin.

So please do give yourselves the permission; to be free, to be a child of God!!!

and....

Then you will always feel good?


1Jn 1:9 God is faithful and reliable. If we confess our sins, he forgives them and cleanses us from everything we've done wrong.

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