Battle in Identity

These are some of the things I've been learning recently. I pray that they encourage you. 

The areas of your identity in which God speaks strength and creativity over, are often the areas that are most vulnerable. Think about it, He creates us with a plan and a purpose. And when we are willing, he speaks his innermost heart to ours- calling us up to be as Heaven sees us. Gideon was in hiding, the least of his tribe when God called him up and out as he saw him, Mighty Man of Valor. What an awesome encouragement. Often times, when God reveals our true identity, who He's created us to be, and His purpose for us, it is met with some serious opposition. 

The devil is already defeated because we have the name of Jesus. We are in Christ, Covered with his Blood and filled with his Holy Spirit. Firmly equipped to fight from His Victory. Only when we begin to step into our identity- our battle field of success and harvest has been pointed out from the Lord above. If the devil can muddy our battle field with discouragement, illusions of defeat, temptations of passivity, and lies that God has or will give up on us then he wins a battle. All he can do is attempt to pull you down in the mire, bog you down with negativity. Because in the end, he has no true weapons of his own, only those we abdicate to him. 

I remember hearing a preacher one time talk about how our sins and mistakes can cause the anointing that God has placed on our lives to lift. If our mistakes cause his anointing to lift, then it would never come in the first place. Before Christ gave himself up as our savior, people were subject to the law. You broke one, you broke all of them and you were completely separated from a Holy and Just God. But then Jesus came, lived, died and was raised again. We are forever in God's grace and mercy because of Christ. Regardless of our mistakes on our battle field of our true identity, The God of Mercy is there. Cheering you on, comforting you, and further revealing his mysteriously wonderful plans for you. God has promised to NEVER leave us or forsake us. I think He means it. 

Let your heart seek God's love for you in all situations and circumstances. 

Isaiah 54:17
But no weapon that is formed against you shall prosper, and every tongue that shall rise against you in judgment you shall show to be in the wrong. This [peace, righteousness, security, triumph over opposition] is the heritage of the servants of the Lord [those in whom the ideal Servant of the Lord is reproduced]; this is the righteousness or the vindication which they obtain from Me [this is that which I impart to them as their justification], says the Lord. 

1 Corinthians 6:11

Amplified Bible (AMP)

¹¹ And such some of you were [once]. But you were washed clean (purified by a complete atonement for sin and made free from the guilt of sin), and you were consecrated (set apart, hallowed), and you were justified [pronounced righteous, by trusting] in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the [Holy] Spirit of our God.