Your Inner Image

Have anyone ever said to you, "you will never amount to anything" or "you are not good enough" or "you are going to be just like your father or mother, who is no good?". These are lies straight from the pits of hell. The enemy knows that if he can get you to believe these words, he can cause them to become a reality in your life. Roman 10: 10 says, with the heart man believeth, and ye shall have what you say, (Mark 11:23).

2 Peter 2:9 says, Ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people, that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you have of darkness into his marvellous light. Deuteronomy 28:13 says that you are the head and not the tail, and above only and not beneath and anything you do shall prosper, and that's because even before God made the world He loved us and chose us to be holy and without fault in his eyes (Ephesians 1:4).

Speaking God's Word

Mark 11:23 says, For verily I say unto you, that whosoever shall say unto this mountain, be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea, and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass, he shall have whatsoever he saith. The word of God tells us that we can have what we say, but we keep saying what we have. You are the sum total of what you have been believing and speaking with your mouth. Proverbs 18: 23 says, Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.

Knowing God through Revelation or the Five Senses?

God created man a spirit being and gave him a body to be the home of his spirit. Through his physical body man was to contact the outward world which was to be his home. The knowledge of this world was to come to him through the medium of his five senses. The purpose of the nervous system was never to reveal God to man; man was to know God through his spirit.

When man died spiritually, that is, became alienated from God, he was left without a channel through which he could know God. It then became necessary for God to meet man on the level of the medium through which he gained his knowledge and that revelation is known to us as the Bible.

Fullness Received

Your spirit was created in righteousness and true holiness when you were born again (Eph. 4:24). Then, the Holy Spirit sealed this purity into your brand-new spirit (Eph. 1:13). Any sin that you committ now in your physical actions cannot penetrate or contaminate your spirit because it's been sanctified and perfected forever (Heb. 10: 10,14; 12:23). Your born-again spirit cannot sin (1 John 3:9).

You have received eternal redemption (Heb. 9:12). This does not encourage you to live in sin but instead give you stability in your life and relationship with God. God is pleased with you because of who you are in the spirit (John 2:24) because you have been united with Christ Jesus (Eph. 1:2).