Identity

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Demanding Our Healing May 22, 2018 God is our true Friend, who always gives us the counsel and comfort we need. Our danger lies in resisting Him; so it is essential that we acquire the habit of hearkening to His voice, or…
Speaking The Truth in Love May 3, 2018 When we are speaking the truth in love, we are not putting someone down nicely—we are elevating someone brilliantly. We are saying to people, “You don’t need to be doing that because this is who you…
The Devil Knows Who You Are – And It Frightens Him Feb 18, 2018 One great tragedy of our existence is that often, the Devil, the liar, the Satan, the divider believes more in our identity in Christ Jesus than we do. ~ Makala Barnabas Doulos Grace to you and…
You Are A King, You Know Jan 22, 2018 The truth that we are kings and queens in Christ is not some idea conjured up to boost our self-esteem but a present reality that we will enjoy in its fullness at the resurrection of the…
Newly-Cracked Pots Spilling Ancient Oil And Wine Nov 21, 2017 I have always been filled with the fires of the love of a God not old, and now to this has been joined the passion of the love of a young man. That love, dear earth,…
The Devil Is A Liar: Are You Listening? Aug 30, 2017 You can’t have any negative terminology about yourself. It’s not allowed! All negativity died on the Cross. It doesn’t belong in your life, and you get to have the joyful lifestyle of making war on all…
Breakthrough to The Real You Aug 25, 2017 While the impostor draws his identity from past achievements and the adulation of others, the true self claims identity in its belovedness. We encounter God in the ordinariness of life: not in the search for spiritual…
Out of The Prison, And into The Light Aug 9, 2017 If thou intend not nor seek nothing else but the pleasing of God and the profit of thy neighbor thou shalt have inward liberty. ~Thomas à Kempis (c. 1380-1471) As soon as his master heard the…
Learning to Believe That I Am Enough Feb 26, 2017 Learn to walk in God’s perception of who you are, because yours is not good enough. ~ Graham Cooke Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first…
The Lies of Reputation Feb 20, 2017 Reputation is what men and women think of us. Character is what God and the angels know of us. ~Thomas Paine (1737-1809) Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, To the saints…
You Think That’s Air You’re Breathing? Finding Your True Identity Jan 7, 2017 In the first experience of sanctification we lose altogether the consciousness of our own identity, we are absorbed in God; but that is not the final place, it is merely the introduction to a totally new…
No, Is A Complete Sentence Jul 29, 2016 “No.,” is a complete sentence. It does not require justification or explanation. ~ Megan LeBoutillier I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. When the Spirit of truth comes,…
Making The Way Clear Mar 17, 2016 “Way! Way! Way!” came the voice. “Way for the White Barbarian King, the guest of the Tisroc (may he live forever)! Way for the Narnian lords.”. . . It was quite unlike any other party they…
Afraid of Who We Are Mar 14, 2016 It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest and most uninteresting person you can talk to may one day be a creature which, if…
Swing for The Fence Feb 10, 2016 I shall not fear the battleIf Thou art by my side,Nor wander from the pathwayIf Thou wilt be my guide.~John E. Bode I tell you this, brothers: flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God,…
Moving Off-Center That We Might Find Ourselves Dec 8, 2015 Only in the context of the great encounter with Jesus Christ himself can a real authentic struggle take place. The encounter with Christ does not take place before, after, or beyond the struggle with our false…
The Light Is On – Do We Know We Are Home? Nov 17, 2015 Define yourself radically as one beloved by God. This is the true self. Every other identity is illusion.~Brennan Manning So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh. For…
Deeper into Freedom May 4, 2015 Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.~Martin Luther King Jr. Therefore lift your drooping hands and strengthen your weak knees, and make straight paths…
Growing into The Fullness of The Gospel Mar 8, 2015 When the Spirit illuminates the heart, then a part of the man sees which never saw before; a part of him knows which never knew before, and that with a kind of knowing which the most…
Hitting The Reset Button Jul 17, 2014 The expression of Christian character is not good doing, but God-likeness. If the Spirit of God has transformed you within, you will exhibit divine characteristics in your life, not good human characteristics. God’s life in us…
The YAWP! of the Transformed May 14, 2014 I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable,I sound my barbaric YAWP over the roofs of the world.~ Walt WitmanFor am I now seeking the approval of man, or of God? Or am…
The Image God Sees Jan 19, 2014 By Allison Bown… http://www.twclass.org/blog/ Every journey has those times when the lights seem to go out. We have a sense of the space around us, but the details of “when”, “how” and “what” elude us. God…
Phase Shift Jul 7, 2013 To be saved from death and hell is a gift of enormous proportion. Regardless, the full benefit of The Cross is not just the vital aspect of Jesus Christ’s payment for our sins, it was also…
Infinite Power in A Jar of Clay May 26, 2013 We can seek God and find him! God is knowable, touchable, hearable, see-able, with the mind, the hands, the ears, and eyes of the inner man.~A.W. Tozer (1897-1963)For this reason I bow my knees before the…
He Spoke Your Name Apr 21, 2013 Though Christ a thousand times in Bethlehem be born, If he’s not born in thee, thy soul is still forlorn.~Angelus Silesius (1624-1677) I will greatly rejoice in the LORD; my soul shall exult in my God,…
Context Is King Sep 17, 2012 Tx: Say your position November – Charlie team member over.Rx: Indigo, November – Charlie, Hotel, Romeo, Indigo, Sierra, Tango over.Tx: 10-4 team member. Bravo-Zulu. Stay on station indefinitely over.From now on, therefore, we regard no one…
New Thing Jul 16, 2012 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come. 2 Corinthians 5:17 Yeah, OK, but what kind of new creation am i? Isn’t that…
New And Worthy May 14, 2012 God did not choose us because we were worthy, but by choosing us He makes us worthy.~Thomas Watson (c. 1557-1592)For the love of Christ controls us, because we have concluded this: that one has died for…
Incomprehensible Speech Apr 17, 2012 In Christ we have a love that can never be fathomed, a life that can never die, a peace that can never be understood, a rest that can never be disturbed, a joy that can never…
The Healing Disconnect Feb 10, 2012 Those who are the happiest are not necessarily those for whom life has been easiest. Emotional stability is an attitude. It is refusing to yield to depression and fear, even when black clouds float overhead. ~…
Best of Friends Jan 24, 2012 A re-post on who we are to G_d. “And since then, O Kings and Ladies, I have been wandering to find him and my happiness is so great that it even weakens me like a wound.…