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.....God has a lot to say about about you.First of all He created you to hang out with Him, that got missed in "The Fall" But God had a plan to hook us up with Him again, and His name is Jesus. It's all explained in His Word. I like to stick with His Word and not mine. So let's go! |
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Therefore you are no longer a slave, but a son; and if a son,
then an heir through God (Galatians 4:7).
As you consider the importance of your spiritual identity and the
spiritual identity of your children, meditate on these passages:
* The spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are
children of God (Romans 8:16).
* For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus.
For all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed
yourselves with Christ (Galatians 3:26, 27).
* And because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of
His Son into our hearts, crying, "Abba! Father!" Therefore
you are no longer a slave, but a son; and if a son, then an
heir through God (Galatians 4:6, 7).
* But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation,
a people for God's own possession, that you may proclaim the
excellencies of Him who has called you out of darkness into
His marvelous light; for you once were not a people, but now
you are the people of God; you had not received mercy, but
now you have received mercy (1 Peter 2:9, 10).
* See how great a love the Father has bestowed upon us, that we
should be called children of God; and such we are. . . .
Beloved, now we are children of God; and it has not appeared
as yet what we shall be. We know that, when He appears, we
shall be like Him, because we shall see Him just as He is.
And anyone who has this hope fixed on Him purifies himself,
just as He is pure (1 John 3:1-3).
Mom and Dad, do you want your sons and daughters to purify
themselves? Then find out who you are as a child of God, and help
your children establish the same eternal relationship by
discovering their identity in Him.
Lord, continue to show me who I am in Christ that I may encourage
my children in their relationship with You.
You were formerly darkness, but now you are light in the Lord; walk as children of light (Ephesians 5:8). Ephesians 2:1-3 describes our nature before we came to Christ: "You were dead in your trespasses and sins, in which you formerly walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air . . . and were by nature children of wrath." Before we became Christians our very nature was sin, and the result of our sin was death (separation from God). As such we served ourselves and Satan as a matter of course. But at salvation God changed our very essence; we became ". . . partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world by lust" (2 Peter 1:4). You are no longer in the flesh; you are in Christ. You had a sinful nature before your conversion, but now you are a partaker of Christ's divine nature. You are neither eternal nor divine, but you are eternally united with Christ's divinity. Paul said it this way: "You were formerly darkness, but now you are light in the Lord; walk as children of light" (Ephesians 5:8); "Therefore if any man is in Christ, he is a new creature" (2 Corinthians 5:17). In the face of Satan's accusations that we are no different, we must believe and live in harmony with the fact that we are eternally different in Christ. The New Testament refers to the person you were before you received Christ as your old self (old man in the King James Version). At salvation your old self, which was motivated to live independently of God and was therefore characterized by sin, died (Romans 6:6), and your new self, motivated by your new identity in Christ and characterized by dependence on God, came to life (Galatians 2:20). Your old self had to die in order to sever your relationship with sin which dominated it. Being a new person doesn't mean that you are sinless (1 John 1:8). But since your old self has been crucified and buried with Christ, you no longer need to sin (1 John 2:1). You sin when you choose to act independently of God. Lord, thank You for the hope that comes from knowing that my old self is dead and that I am now a new creature in Christ. Matthew 6: 25 ?So I tell you, don?t worry about the food or drink you need to live, or about the clothes you need for your body. Life is more than food, and the body is more than clothes. 26 Look at the birds in the air. They don?t plant or harvest or store food in barns, but your heavenly Father feeds them. And you know that you are worth much more than the birds. 27 You cannot add any time to your life by worrying about it. 28 ?And why do you worry about clothes? Look at how the lilies in the field grow. They don?t work or make clothes for themselves. 29 But I tell you that even Solomon with his riches was not dressed as beautifully as one of these flowers. 30 God clothes the grass in the field, which is alive today but tomorrow is thrown into the fire. So you can be even more sure that God will clothe you. Don?t have so little faith! 31 Don?t worry and say, ?What will we eat?? or ?What will we drink?? or ?What will we wear?? 32 The people who don?t know God keep trying to get these things, and your Father in heaven knows you need them. 33 The thing you should want most is God?s kingdom and doing what God wants. Then all these other things you need will be given to you. 34 So don?t worry about tomorrow, because tomorrow will have its own worries. Each day has enough trouble of its own. John3:16 ?God loved the world so much that he gave his one and only Son so that whoever believes in him may not be lost, but have eternal life. 17 God did not send his Son into the world to judge the world guilty, but to save the world through him. 18 People who believe in God?s Son are not judged guilty. Those who do not believe have already been judged guilty, because they have not believed in God?s one and only Son. 19 They are judged by this fact: The Light has come into the world, but they did not want light. They wanted darkness, because they were doing evil things. 20 All who do evil hate the light and will not come to the light, because it will show all the evil things they do. 21 But those who follow the true way come to the light, and it shows that the things they do were done through God.? John:10 Jesus said, ?If you only knew the free gift of God and who it is that is asking you for water, you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.?
IF you get into His Word He will. |
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