New Creation Realities – 3
Let’s look further into who we are. You were created for Him and by Him. You originated from God. He is responsible for the fact that you are here.
The first thing He did was give you identity. You belong to Him because you came from Him. Your identity is Him.
Rom 8 :29 He has predestined us to be conformed to the IMAGE of his Son.
Let us make man in our IMAGE. Your purpose is to look like Him. I love what Paul writes in 2 Cor 3:18
But we all with an open face are beholding as in a mirror the glory of God, are changed from one degree of glory to the next degree of glory even as by the Spirit of the Lord.
An image is what you see when you look into the mirror. He is our mirror. You only have permission to look at him. Only then can you change. You have no permission to look at a friend, a teacher, a hero or an idol to mirror yourself. They never created you. God is your blueprint. Only when you mirror yourself in him will you see yourself without condemnation.
2 Pet 1:4 Whereby is given unto us exceedingly great promises, that by these you might be partakers of his divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world.
Here is the next Creation Reality. He has made us partakers of His divine Nature. What a wonderful Truth. You are not the old man anymore. You were recreated into His nature and you don’t live a natural life trying to have a spiritual experience but you are fully alive to a Spiritual life having a natural experience. God has restored you back to your original purpose.
John 1:12 All that have excepted Him he gave the authority(living from the I AM) to become the sons of God, even them that believe in His name.
It is not prideful to act like Jesus. It is not narcissistic to act like you are favored by God. It should be your normal because that is who He made you to be.
In Luke 4 we see the enemy trying to negotiate with Jesus. I will give you all these if you fall down and worship me. Be very careful with this. We were not called to negotiate what we are and what God has made us. Even after the temptation Jesus was regularly asked to proof something. “Do a miracle and we will believe in you.” Meet us on our terms and we will change.
Never ever fall for this ploy from the enemy. What we are and who’s we are is not negotiable. I see people everywhere that think it is okay to negotiate who they are with sin. Just this one time won’t hurt anybody, right? It is not a big deal to God. Adam and Eve negotiated in the garden of Eden and it didn’t work. Light and darkness have nothing in common. Light overcomes darkness and the only option we have when it comes to the enemy is to resist him and cast him out.
Jesus taught us to pray in a certain way.
Matt 6:10 Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth AS IT IS IN HEAVEN.
When do know it is time to be a son of God. When do I walk in my divine nature. Everyday!
Anytime you see something that is not like it is in heaven, then you have the right to restore that. See that Jesus didn’t say when you see it is not like it is in heaven, then negotiate with the enemy and see what you can restore. What Jesus is saying is that in our prayer we don’t ask for the earth to be like heaven, will your kingdom come, will your will be done on earth as in heaven. No he clearly asks us to state what it should be, no negotiations.
How do I know the enemy is lying to me? Every time he opens his mouth he lies. He is the father of all lies and cannot speak the truth. So why should I even speak to him. John 8:44.
You are of your father the devil and the lust of your father you will do. He was a murderer from the beginning and does not abide in the truth, because there is no truth in him. WHEN HE SPEAKS A LIE, he speaks of his own, he is a liar and the father of it.
How do we overcome the enemy? When we know who we are – identity.
2 Cor 5:20 Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you through us, we pray for you in Christ stead, be reconciled to God.
You are an Ambassador for Christ. When you are an Ambassador you represent your Government and they supply you with a card that says:
THIS PERSON IS NOT TO BE DETAINED FOR ANY REASON.
That is called diplomatic immunity. It means that if I am a diplomat and they catch me for speeding, they can not arrest me and detail me. Even if I am in another country and break the rule, those laws does not apply to me because I am under the laws of my own government.
You have diplomatic immunity in the kingdom and satan has no right to detain you. You are not living under the law of the old man or the flesh but you are now under the laws of the kingdom and his divine nature. There is therefore no condemnation for those who are in Christ who does not live according to the flesh but according to the Spirit(divine nature).
Are you seeing what the enemy is trying to do? Do not allow him to open his mouth. He is not the mirror we look at. Jesus Christ is the only one that can change you from glory to glory.