In Christ or In Crisis?

Galatians 2:20 NKJV I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.

Beloved, you have been crucified WITH Christ. The person you are now, the born-again Believer, is Christ living in you. Do you know who you are? Are you aware of the authority you carry? Do you realize you are an ambassador for the King?

Knowing your identity is going to save you from much trouble! The world has zero answers for you regarding your identity. The world wants to strip you of any identity you have and replace it with lies. The world will tell a girl to become a boy and mutilate their body. There is so much confusion happening in the earth and we are the ones that must be a light in the darkness. Are you frustrated enough to do something in love to help people suffering?

The world hates you and the devil hates you but I have good news, God loves you so much He sent His son to die for you! Jesus took on your shame, sickness and disease so you didn't have live in poverty and defeat.

Many Christian’s run around spiritual naked! They have taken off every single piece of armor and let the enemy use them as a punching bag. Their minds have become the devil's playground and they believe every ridiculous lie from hell and have literally put themselves in shackles and chains and cry that God doesn’t love them.

The devil is not winning! You have the choice to pick up your armor and abide under the shadow of the almighty God - or you can strip off the armor and put on your grave clothes. You have all power & authority over the enemy! Spiritual warfare is a battle in the unseen realm. I have a lot of scripture listed below for you to meditate on. It's more than usual for a devotional but these words will transform your mind if you allow them! Meditate upon these verses, learn how you are blessed, chosen, adopted, accepted, forgiven, redeemed, sealed by the Holy Spirit and more!

Ephesians 1:3-14 (NKJV) Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love, having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will, to the praise of the glory of His grace, by which He made us accepted in the Beloved. In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace which He made to abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence, having made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His good pleasure which He purposed in Himself, that in the dispensation of the fullness of the times He might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven and which are on earth—in Him. In Him also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestined according to the purpose of Him who works all things according to the counsel of His will, that we who first trusted in Christ should be to the praise of His glory. In Him you also trusted, after you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation; in whom also, having believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise, who is the guarantee of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, to the praise of His glory.

Ephesians 1:15-23 (NKJV) Therefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all the saints, do not cease to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers: 1hat the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him, 1he eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that you may know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, and what is the exceeding greatness of His power toward us who believe, according to the working of His mighty power which He worked in Christwhen He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places, far aboveall principality and power and might and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age but also in that which is to come. And He put all things under His feet, and gave Him to be head over all things to the church, which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all.

Our blessings are in heavenly places - Christ is seated in the heavenly realm and we are seated in Christ – you can’t get any higher than seated in Heavenly place. Partake in your blessing!

Ephesians 2:4-10 (NKJV) But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ(by grace you have been saved), and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, that in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us in ChristJesus. For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast. For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.

Everything has to do with JESUS! It’s all because of Jesus! HE is the reason we worship with such Zeal and passion – because we have been forgiven of so much! Use the authority you have been given in Christ! It's time to finally know who you are in Christ and stop living like the world lives in a constant crisis! God is for you, who can be against you?!