5 ATTRIBUTES TO WALKING IN OUR GOD GIVEN IDENTITY

A couple weeks ago I shared a couple messages about living in the moment and stewarding that moment. In one of the messages I mentioned how knowing our identity helps us know how to steward the season that we are in and every season to come. Over the next couple weeks we will be diving into our identity. With the main question being answered, Who has God made me to be? Who am I in God? Who is God?(yea that’s a big one but how we view God directly ties into who we are and how we act)

I’m a firm believer when we know who God has made us to be we flourish beyond any expectation we could ever have for our life. Sometimes it’s just not easy these days to know who we are. To often we let society, media, teachers, and friends tell us who we are. Often through our external influences we become the person we portray but do so without ever taking the time and asking God who we really are.

It’s time as a group of believers we all ask the lord who he has made us to be. The mass of society is longing for truth and people that know who they are and we have all the necessary tools because we know the one who is truth.

So here are 5 attributes that are imperative to walking out our identity in Christ.

1. Made in Gods image

“So God created human beings in his own image. In the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.”

‭‭Genesis‬ ‭1:27‬ ‭NLT‬‬

You have been made unique and are 100% original. No one can be you and it’s vital that the world has you being the best you! Society often shows us ways to “gain” self value but these views are often pitted in the thought process of who I am is who you say I am. This leads to putting our personality and identity in material possessions and in the hands of broken people. Who you are is not your status, jobs, possessions, or finances. When our identity is consistent with these items we feel devalued and worthless living a life of fear because what we are rooted in can fluctuate against our will. Rather when the vision of who we are is focused on the constant of Christ our emotions won’t dictate or fluctuate who we are because we know we have been made in the constant image of God leaving us valued, powerful, and at peace.

2. Sons and Daughters

“For all who are led by the Spirit of God are children of God. So you have not received a spirit that makes you fearful slaves. Instead, you received God’s Spirit when he adopted you as his own children. Now we call him, “Abba, Father.””

‭‭Romans‬ ‭8:14-15‬ ‭NLT‬‬

As believers we are sons and daughters adopted by God! With God as our Father and knowing the character of the Father we have an open understanding that God i’sent a mean ruler of an orphanage but rather a caring father who wants the best for his children. When we realize this as our identity we step away from living a life of works and performance and move into relationship with our Creator. Without the revelation of being sons and daughters and having a caring Father we tend to live from the view if I mess up then God will punish me. Although there is a such thing as biblical correction God is not looking down from us in heaven with a wooden spoon ready to whip us if we don’t do the things we think we are meant to be doing. He is a good Father and we are his children like a good Father he’s just longing for relationship with us.

3. Saints

“Whoever abides in Him does not sin. Whoever sins has neither seen Him nor known Him.”

‭‭I John‬ ‭3:6‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

As children of God we are no longer sinners but saints! We no longer have a sin nature. We were sinners but once we accepted Jesus as our lord and savior our sin nature was washed away! But how can that be because we all sin? Unfortunately yes we can sin as saints but notice how John says whoever abides in Him does not sin. We have been equipped to not sin just as Adam and Eve were before the fall. God even called them good before sin entered the picture! This just shows that all you need to sin is free will and the capacity to believe a lie.

4. Royal Priesthood

“But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;”

‭‭I Peter‬ ‭2:9‬ NKJV

Not only are we sons and daughters adopted by a good good Father but we have been adopted into a royal family and are heirs to the thrown! Our identity as royalty and heirs to the kingdom of heaven strips us from any mindset of poverty thinking as all keys have been given to us from heaven. No longer do we need to show up to the dinner table scrounging for bread crumbs because in our family there is always more then enough!

5. Christ's ambassadors

“So we are Christ’s ambassadors; God is making his appeal through us. We speak for Christ when we plead, “Come back to God!””

‭‭2 Corinthians‬ ‭5:20‬ ‭NLT‬‬

An ambassador is someone who lives in a foreign land but has been given authority from there native land. As believers have have been raised with Christ and are seated in heavenly places! We have been given power and authority through the Holy Spirit within us and we are now living as ambassadors of the kingdom of heaven! God is making his appeal through us!

Over the next couple weeks I’m going to be taking us in depth into these 5 topics. Through this first message it should be easy to see that all of these point to an identity rooted in Christ! When we know who he has made us to be and who we are in him we truly begin to flourish and step into our God given destiny.

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Grace be with you!