OUR IDENTITY IN CHRIST :: Shared By Salf

I will start with a short testimony. Somehow God has been reviving my prayer life. So last week on one of the weekdays I woke up asubuhi to pray. And as I prayed, I felt quite a conviction that without God I don't have any strength to carry on in his assignment over my life. As I prayed, it's like God was telling me that he's my strength. So I kept confessing that God you are my strength. Then, in just a bit I opened the scriptures, opened the verse psalms 27 which I have always known to be "The Lord is my light and my salvation. Well, the second bit of that verse is what amazed me. Coz it goes "The Lord is the Strength of my life, of whom shall I be afraid?"

Immediately I knew God was confirming that he's my/our strength. The testimony here is that, He will speak to you a Word in season. And I have been encouraged as a result to pray forth the scriptures. Because God will follow his Word to perform and confirm it.

Number 2: As in second thing I want to share before we read the scriptures

Pambio yenye I have been singing is; - Just the chorus. Every praise, is to our God. Every word of worship in one accord, every praise, every praise, is to our God. Amen. Now today i wish to share with us a message" Our identity in Christ"

Our verse for the day is 1 Peter 2:10: Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.[King James Version]
What makes us different from our friends, family members and colleagues who are not yet born again?

It's not that we are better, but God's mercy has rescued us. The bible says that it's Him who chose us. And he knew us even before the foundations of the world. Now, our identity in Christ is that we are here on earth with a divine assignment, chief of which is to worship and glorify God.

God has quickened us by his Spirit, so that even as we live, we bear in mind that we are sons and daughters of the Most High. Does it mean we are perfect? By no means. But God has taught us to always call on Him and he will be our help in time of need. We are in this world and God has promised us victory in every area of our lives, yet the chief victory is that our names are in the book of heaven.

It reminds me of when disciples were excited that they could do miracles and cast out devils but Jesus told them to rejoice not in that the spirits are subject to them but that their names are in the book of life. And this identity in Christ is irrevocable. So we are in this permanently. Even though the enemy seeks around like a roaring lion to seek saints he may devour, we have the victory in Christ. It's God who preserves us.

In conclusion, I wish to say: That the place where we are with Christ is: A place of hope, a place of forgiveness of sins, a place of healing, a place of restoration. The righteous are as bold as a lion, and knowing that Christ in us has made us righteous, let us go forth boldly and live as God intended us to. We are a peculiar people, lets have our joy full. We are kingdom people, God is the bishop of our souls. We know who we are and him who has called us. So may he be glorified in our lives, now and forever more.

Amen.