How many times have we heard that in life? Weather you're going to the store to buy some smokes or maybe you're going to the bars and got asked for you I.D. The worst is when you get pulled over by the police and they ask for you I.D. and proof of insurance. We carry identification with us everywhere we go. But Jesus said there is an identification we have with us always, that we can never use enough, our identification "In Him." Acts 17:28 "For in him we live and move and have our being.’[a] As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are his offspring." Isn't God wonderful, that in his son Jesus, we have our identification in Him, as his offspring, to live and move and have our being. This begins when you make Jesus the Lord and Savior of you life. Romans 10:9-10 "That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. 10For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation."
The first step of being in Him is confessing Jesus as you Lord. Being a born again child of God is the key that opens the door to all of Gods provisions and promises for us in Him. Now that we are in Him, He is Lord over our lives and we are under his Lordship. Which means He now leads us and guides us in all truth. He protects us and takes care of us as we operate in Him. Jesus said I am the good shepherd (John 10:14). We have been identified to do good. Ephesians 2:10 (Amp) says, "For we are God's [own] handiwork (His workmanship), [a]recreated in Christ Jesus, [born anew] that we may do those good works which God predestined (planned beforehand) for us [taking paths which He prepared ahead of time], that we should walk in them [living the good life which He prearranged and made ready for us to live]." Our God is so good that he planned out a path for us. To live good and to do good in Him. You may have been in prison or abused as a child. Maybe you walked out on your family or were addicted to drugs which took you to a dark place in your life. Every time you tried to do the right thing a mistake happened or times got hard and you thought there was no way out. So you return to what you know or what you can identify with. This only happened when we try to do the right things with the wrong ability, ours! But the good news is that in Him you are a new creation. 2 Corinthians 5:17 "In Him you can do all things through Christ that strengthens you."
It all ends and begins with your I.D. in Him. For from Him and through Him and to Him are all things. For all things live through Him and all things center on and tend to consummate and to end in Him. To Him be glory forever! Amen! So be it, Romans 11:36 (Amp). Your I.D. in Him not only tells you who you are, and others who you are, but it lets the devil know who you are. Acts 19:13-16, "Then certain of the vagabond Jews, exorcists, took upon them to call over them which had evil spirits the name of the LORD Jesus, saying, We adjure you by Jesus whom Paul preacheth. 14And there were seven sons of one Sceva, a Jew, and chief of the priests, which did so. 15And the evil spirit answered and said, Jesus I know, and Paul I know; but who are ye? 16And the man in whom the evil spirit was leaped on them, and overcame them, and prevailed against them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded." This man, Sceva, tried to cast out the devil based on someone else's relationship with Jesus. He had no relationship with Jesus, and since he had no relationship with Him, He had no I.D. in Him. Since he had no I.D. in Him, the devil beat the crap out of him to the point that he was naked and wounded.
Your idenification is in Him (Jesus). Start defeating the devil at every turn by saying what God says about you. That now you show your I.D. in Him.
If the devil tells you, you won't win..your I.D. says in Romans 8:33, "Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us."
If the devil tells you, you can't do this...your I.D. says in Philippians 4:13, "I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me."
If the devil tells you, you'll never be more than strung out, a crack head or a drunk..you tell him your I.D. says in 1 John 4:4 says, "..greater is He that is in me than he that is in the world."
Now you have your I.D. that will set you free. Because whom the Son sets free is free indeed!
This week read, meditate and pray these scriptures:
Romans 11:36
Romans 8:1-2
1 Corinthians 1:30
2 Corinthians 5:21
Galations 2:20
God loves you and so do I!
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