WHO YOU ARE AND WHAT YOU HAVE

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We know that when we are in Christ we are New creations (2 Corinthians 5:17), we know that our bodies are the temple of the Holy Spirit. God dwells in us by His Spirit. Now let's stop and think about that for a minute, God lives IN me; my spirit is joined to HIS. I am not alone anymore, the Creator of all things is in me and with me and He is my Father and He loves me immensely.

¹⁷ However, the person who unites himself with the Lord becomes one spirit with him.

¹⁹ Don’t you know that your body is a temple that belongs to the Holy Spirit? The Holy Spirit, whom you received from God, lives in you. You don’t belong to yourselves. ²⁰ You were bought for a price. So bring glory to God in the way you use your body. – 1 Corinthians 6:17, 19-20 GW

I'm not your own, I'm God’s temple, I belong to Him – Child of God, let this truth be forever settled in our hearts and as we do, anxiety, worry and fear will lose their grip on us. Once we are conscious of the fact that it is no longer us who live but it is Christ who is living through us (Galatians 2:20), we can rest in Him and what He has already done.

May the Holy Spirit continually remind us that we are His temple and you know what? He knows how to take care of His temple better than we do, He holds the future, He is there already. If we have trusted Him with our spirits and our souls, why not go ahead and trust Him with our bodies as well, or have we forgotten that our bodies are His temple? God has promised to meet all our needs; He’s also given us all things that pertain to life and godliness.

To effectively fulfill our destinies, we will first have to come to terms with who  we are and what we have. The Apostle Paul prayed that the Ephesian Christians will be given to see what they already had in Christ, He didn't pray that God would give them some special impartation or double portion anointing or anything like that, he simply prayed that they would get a revelation of what they already had in Christ.

¹⁸ I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in his holy people, ¹⁹ and his incomparably great power for us who believe. That power is the same as the mighty strength ²⁰ he exerted when he raised Christ from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly realms, ²¹ far above all rule and authority, power and dominion, and every name that is invoked, not only in the present age but also in the one to come.  – Ephesians 1:18-21 NIV

Once we know what we have in Christ and actually believe it, we'll be well on your way to fruitful and victorious living, not a moment sooner. We have the very same omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent, eternal Holy Spirit that raised Jesus from the dead living inside of us; let's get a glimpse of how rich and glorious all of God’s promises to us are and see the hope of His calling for us today. In Christ we are complete and unstoppable!

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Let's not entertain the lies of the devil designed to heap feelings of insecurity and unworthiness on us, we are not only complete in Christ but we are also accepted in the Beloved. Because of Jesus’ perfect sacrifice of Himself, since I'm in Christ, God has a very good opinion of me, He calls me Righteous, Holy, Forgiven, Redeemed, His beloved, His temple and the list goes on… 

In Christ we lack nothing, opinions contrary to God’s Word should not sway us!