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10 Scriptures to boost your identity in Christ

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1. 1 John 3:1 See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are!

2. Philippians 4:13 I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength

3. Romans 8: 31 If God is for us who can be against us

4. Psalm 139:13 For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made

5. 1 Corinthians 6:19 Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit lives in you

6. Ephesians 2:10 For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.

7. 2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation: The old has gone, the new has come

8. 1 John 4: 4 greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world

9. 2 Timothy 1:7 For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love and of self-discipline

10. 1 John 5:4 for everyone born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world, even our faith

A new level of faith

I just got back from Korea where I was attending Ps Yonggi Cho’s Church Growth Conference. It was unreal. I was hanging out with Ps Phil Pringle and Ps Kong Hee and listening to Ps Cho. That’s about as good a week as you can have!

This guy has built the largest church in the history of Christianity by prayer, faith and the Holy Spirit.

He preached a message on faith that took me to another level.

Here are 3 keys of faith from Ps Cho

1. Faith swells in an environment of faith.
It is so important for us to live in the faith zone, to operate in faith and to remain firmly in faith.
I think in the world today – we can have the intention of living by faith but are tempted by and often give in to the doubts, fears and realities that surround us every day.
Our faith gives way to fear.
We need to constantly be putting ourselves in an environment of faith – being in church, getting around great leaders and inspiring people, reading the word of God, spending time in prayer and seeing visions.

2. Faith wants to have a clear goal.
We need to know what we are applying our faith to. Define your goal and bring it before God in persistent prayer.
Keep your goal in mind and see it coming to pass. Pray for it, aim towards it and never let it out of your sight.

3. Language is the clothing for faith.
How cool is that thought!
Faith needs an expression and this happens through your words.
What you speak is what is inside you. So faith expresses itself in your life by your words. So speak words of faith and life and keep speaking them.

Lets be people that build the future by faith!

How to get more of Holy Spirit in your life

1. Repent

Acts 2:38
Peter replied, “Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. And you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

You need to repent and be baptized

This is step one in living by the Holy Spirit

2. Wait on the Holy Spirit

Acts 1: 4 – Do not leave Jerusalem but wait for the gift my Father promised….

You will be baptized with the Holy Spirit

We need to learn how to wait – for the spirit of God

We have lost the art of waiting – So often we charge on ahead – making our own way

We don’t like to wait in this world –but if you want the Holy Spirit –you need to wait on God

This is what we do in church – we learn wait on God

Isaiah 40: 31 – they that wait upon the Lord will renew their strength, they will rise up on wings as eagles

3. Believe in the Holy Spirit

1 Corinthians 2:5
so that your faith might not rest on men’s wisdom, but on God’s power

The Holy Spirit moves on your faith – without faith you won’t experience the Holy Spirit

Smith Wigglesworth said

Believe that when you come into the presence of God you can have all you came for. You can take it away, and you can use it, for all the power of God is at your disposal in response to your faith  

Come on lets put our faith in God’s power

4. Live by faith

Galatians 3: 14 –so that by faith we might receive the promise of the Spirit

Faith actions what we believe

Your faith attracts the power of God

It’s so easy to give up – to accept where you are and what is happening

Faith is a fight that won’t give up – fight the good fight of faith – you will be commended

Faith considers all the reason why a miracle can happen

A fully convinced mind – is what moves God

Live in the realm of the spirit – it’s a realm of power, victory and abundance

5. Don’t resist the Holy Spirit

Acts 7:51
You stiff-necked people, with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You are just like your fathers: You always resist the Holy Spirit

Some people are so resistant – don’t have a position of doubt – have a position of faith

Don’t hang back but step in – the power of God is like a river – you have to step in

6. Be filled by the Spirit

Acts 2:4
All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them.

Let yourself be filled with the Holy Spirit – be consumed by God

What else would you want to be filled by? some people get filled with rage, anger, bitterness, alcohol, lust, depression, disappointment – but we are called to filled by the Holy Spirit

7. Pray in the Spirit

Jude 1:20
But you, dear friends, build yourselves up in your most holy faith and pray in the Holy Spirit.

To connect with God – we need to be in prayer – to be anointed by God we need to pray

Prayer is our relationship with God – there is no other way – prayer keeps us in the spirit

God’s creative power

God’s creative power

Today I was standing on the shores of Lake Wakatipu in Queenstown NZ. This is surely one of the most beautiful places on earth!!

How can you not connect to your creator in a setting like this? – I made the connection – it was unreal!

It speaks of the awesome creative power of our God. You can’t deny the beauty and majesty of his construction. The whole scene is a work of art created with purpose.

Acts 1: 8 says “you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you”

God wants us to have this creative power! When the spirit comes into your world – you get access to this incredible creative power.

So what are we doing with it?

Sometimes believers are some of the most boring and powerless people on earth. We have lost sight of what we have been given.
You and I have the creative power of God
So let’s start creating something powerful that inspires awe and majesty!