Feb
Speaking the Word
The last few weeks it has been heavy in my spirit that we as the body of Christ are in times of change, transition, difficulty, shift, transfer, redirection and pressing. This is timely and this was always coming. Last fall the Lord told me that the things we had been asking for for the last year were indeed coming but not when some had expected. We’ve been asking for breakthrough, for some sort of stride that would give us peace and joy. We were asking for the oil of the Lord to ease the friction we had been experiencing trying to do the work of the Spirit in a natural and fallen world and we weren’t experiencing it. God said to me last fall that there was going to be a pruning. As we were entering the season of natures pruning it was an amazing word to be able to look also into the world around me and see that all things must go through a season of “fall” and “pruning”. During that time things that were once contributing parts of the whole will do one of two things- give up and fall by the way side or hold on and become part of a new and life yielding thing.
I have to tell you, brothers and sisters, that we are in the time of this season where we are experiencing the final push. Please, do not be those who gave up during the final push. This is the time to press in and to pick up the sword that is the Word of God and fight like we’ve never fought. As giving birth cannot be stopped once the baby is coming- the new life is coming and will not be stopped and we Christians have come into a final push in the spirit that is instinctual. This time does not require that we study strategy and that we plan and worry and lose our cool. In fact, we have entered the time where our spirits know what to do; it is instinctual. We must speak the Word of God over our lives. We must tell the things that would choose to come against us and seek to destroy the new life that we are coming into who we are and who we serve. Here’s a little list to jump start you in your fight. We are almost there. It is almost time to experience the tangible, touchable new life which we’ve been fostering in the belly of our spirit. God’s promises will be revealed.
| My Relationship | I am reconciled to God – 2 Cor 5:18 |
| I’m a child of God – He is my Father - 1 Jn 3:1,2 | I am a saint – Eph 1:1; 1 Cor 1:2; Phil 1:1 |
| I am Christ’s friend – Jn 15:15 | I am a fellow citizen in God’s kingdom – Eph 2:19 |
| I am born of God – 1 Jn 4:7 | I have been brought near to Christ – Eph 2:13 |
| I have been adopted by God – Rom 8:15 | I’m to be righteous and holy like God – Eph 4:24 |
| I have direct access to God – Eph 2:18 | |
| My Inheritance |
I am a citizen of heaven – Phil 3:20 |
| I am an heir of God – Rom 8:17 | I’ve been rescued from Satan’s domain – Col 1:13 |
| I am a joint heir with Christ – Rom 8:17; Gal 4:7 | I am hidden with Christ in God – Col 3:3 |
| I am blessed with every spiritual blessing – Eph 1:3 | I am chosen of God – holy, beloved – Col 3:12 |
| I am a child of promise – Rom 9:8; Gal 3:14 | I am a child of light, not darkness – 1 Thess 5:5 |
| I’ve been given great promises – 2 Pet 1:4 | I am a partaker of Christ – Heb 3:14 |
| I’m one of God’s living stones – 1 Pet 2:5 | |
| My Transformation | I’m a member of a royal priesthood – 1 Pet 2:9 |
| I’m redeemed and forgiven – Eph 1:6-8 | I’m to be a stranger to this world – 1 Pet 2:11 |
| I’ve been justified – made righteous – Rom 5:1 | I’m an enemy of the devil – 1 Pet 5:8 |
| I have eternal life – Jn 5:24 | |
| I died w/Christ to the power of sin – Rom 6:1-6 | My Calling |
| I am free from condemnation – Rom 8:1 | I am to be salt on the earth – Mt 5:13 |
| I have received the Spirit of God -1 Cor 2:12 | I am to be light in the world – Mt 5:14 |
| I have been given the mind of Christ – 1 Cor 2:16 | I’m chosen and appointed to bear fruit – Jn 15:16 |
| I have been crucified with Christ – Gal 2:20 | I am called to do the works of Christ – Jn 14:12 |
| I am a new creation – 2 Cor 5:17 | I am to do what Christ commanded His disciples - Mt 28:20 |
| I have been made alive with Christ – Eph 2:5 | I have been given spiritual authority – Lk 10:19 |
| I am God’s workmanship – Eph 2:10 | Signs should accompany my work – Mk 16:17-20 |
| I have received fullness in Christ – Col 2:10 | I am a minister of a new covenant – 2 Cor 3:6 |
| I am a minister of reconciliation - 2 Cor 5:18,19 | |
| My Position | I am to be an expression of life in Christ – Col 3:4 |
| I am connected to the true vine – Jn 15:1,5 | I am a partaker of a heavenly calling – Heb 3:1 |
| I’m a willing slave of righeousness – Rom 6:18,22 | |
| I am a temple of God – 1 Cor 3:16; 6:19 | |
| I am one spirit with the Lord – 1 Cor 6:17 | |
| I am a member of Christ’s body – 1 Cor 12:27 |