SPIRITUALITY AND FAITH
be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth and subdue it!” You have been given power over the limits people would put on you and over the strategies of hell to bind you. When we come to Jesus and are “born again”, it is in our DNA to be an overcomer, a builder of things, an improver of things, to fix things that are broken. That’s all because of the power of Jesus working within you! Further…
B. You are to reflect the liberty and joy of Who God is! II Cor. 3:17 says, “Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty”! Easter was not limited to one resurrection but Matt. 27:52 says, “many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep (died) were raised”. Your resurrection to a new life in Christ and your great potential is based on what Jesus did that day and wants to reflect in you/through you today! While people daily trample on the image of God by verbally, physically and sexually abusing people (that breeds shame, worthlessness and hopelessness) …God wants you to put His love, joy, freedom and restoration power on display. While people trample on the image of God when they walk away from the mentally and physically challenged, bully, gossip, slander or backbite others (that breeds feelings of being ugly, stupid, hated or rejected)…God wants you to reflect His interests and show people Who God really is! God has called us to HOPE as His “new creation” image bearers. For that…
1. You need to be thankful! Did God create our physical body? If so, how dare we make a statement that God made an ugly body? Did God create our mind and intellect? If so, how dare we make a
statement that God created a dumb, stupid, or worthless brain? David in Psa. 139:14 said, "I will give thanks to You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; marvelous are Your works; and my soul knows it very well." You need to make a similar thanksgiving statement to God! Further…
2. You need to be thoughtful! Forgive yourself! Appreciate what God is doing in you and forgive yourself! It is in this way that you can have the ability to love and forgive others! Regardless of what you've done, it's vital that you seek God’s forgiveness and re-born Potential and forgive yourself of the shame and regret of it! God says in Isaiah 43:25, “I am the one who wipes out your transgressions for My own sake, and I will not remember your sins.” In Psa. 103:12 God says, “As far as the east is from the west, so far hath He removed our transgressions from us." Its time we forgive ourselves and align our thinking with all God's Word says!
YOU NEED TO SPEAK OF YOUR FUTURE AND NOT YOUR PAST
A. You need to say what God has said about you! It would do well for you to read the Books of Ephesians, Philippians and Colossians and the many ways our Potential is re-defined “In Christ”! (For example) "I have been made righteous in Christ”, “I am a new creation”, “I have been blessed with every spiritual blessing in Christ”, “I have been rescued from the domain of Satan’s rule and transferred to the kingdom of Christ”, “I am able to do all things through Christ who strengthens me”.