I AM WHAT GOD SAYS I AM: Wednesday 10/7/2015

I AM WHAT GOD SAYS I AM

 
THIS is a militant confession. This is declaring war on defeat, failure, and weakness. This is carrying war over into the enemy's camp. This is taking the initiative from the enemy.
 
Colossians 1:13-14: "Who delivered us out of the authority of darkness and translated us into the kingdom of the Son of his love; in whom we have our redemption, the remission of our sins." It is God talking and He says: "I delivered you out of the authority of Satan. He has no more dominion over you than he has over My Son. I delivered you out of the authority of darkness."
 
Darkness means uncertainty and lack of assurance. It means halting, hesitant walking; it means that the light has been extinguished and you are not sure of the next step.
 
You have been delivered out of that, and you have been translated into the realm of light.
 
Jesus said: "I am the light of the world. He that follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life."
 
You have been delivered out of that darkness. Now declare it. Now confess it.


Confession Of Faith:         
“I am delivered out of the authority and dominion of darkness. Satan cannot rule my life because God is the very strength of my life; and greater is He that is in me than the demon forces of darkness."
 
You dare to make that confession, hold fast to it, and refuse to yield a single moment.
 
You have been "translated into the kingdom of the Son of his love in whom you have your redemption." That wipes out everything that you have ever done. That is more than forgiveness. The slate of the past has been wiped clean. You stand complete in Him.
 
Now in the face of your enemies you dare to make your Confession of Faith: "I am what He says I am. 
If He says I am redeemed, I am.
If He says that I am a New Creation created in Christ Jesus, I am.
If He says that He has translated me into the kingdom of the Son of His Love, I am in the Love realm under the Love law.
Then as a New Creation I am no longer under Satan's dominion. Jesus is My Lord”.
 
Ephesians 2:10 says that I am His workmanship created in Christ Jesus. "God has imparted to me His Own Nature-His Own Life. "I am now a member of Christ's Body. This New Creation has been born out of the Heart of God."
 "I have received God's very Nature and Life. I am a partaker of the Divine Nature."
 
Can you hear John say in 1 John 5:13: "These things have I written unto you, that you may know that you have Eternal Life, even you that believe on his name."
 
You see, if you have partaken of God's Nature, God's Life, and the very Substance of His Being, 2 Corinthians 5:21 is true to you "Him who knew no sin God made to be sin that we might become the righteousness of God in him."
 
As surely as Jesus was made sin for you, you have been made righteous by receiving the Life and Nature of God.
 
He says that you are His righteousness in Christ.
 
You dare to say that you are what He says you are, and you will see that it places 
you in the realm of victors.
 
You begin to confess that God has told the truth about you, and you will thrill Heaven.
 
Instead of telling people of your failures and weaknesses, now you can boldly confess you are what God says you are and you can do what God says you can do. All because of His Son Jesus!
 
You will fill the heart of the Father with joy. You will be repeating John 1 :16: "For of His fullness have we all received and grace upon grace."
 
Sense Knowledge cannot walk in this realm.
 
Sense Knowledge cannot even get you through the gate that leads into the Fellowship where you are walking with God.
 
Ephesians 3:16-19
16 I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, 17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, 18 may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, 19 and to know this love that surpasses knowledge — that you may be filled to the measure of 
all the fullness of God. NIV
 
2 Corinthians 3:4-6
 
4 Such confidence as this is ours through Christ before God. 5 Not that we are competent in ourselves to claim anything for ourselves, but our competence comes from God. 6 He has made us competent as ministers of a new covenant- — not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life. NIV
 
 
 
Here God becomes our sufficiency; our ability. He told the disciples to tarry in Jerusalem until they received power from on high. The word "power" comes from the Greek word "dunamis" which means ability. Jesus said, "I want you to tarry in Jerusalem until you receive God's ability."
 
He is calling that ability "sufficiency" now. He has become your ability, your sufficiency.
 
Now you can understand Philippians 4:13: I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. Or, "I can do all things in Him who is my ability, my sufficiency, my strength."
 
You understand that you are taken out of the realm of natural ability, out of the realm of Sense Knowledge ability into the supernatural realm of God.
 
God Is Now Not Only The Strength Of Your Life, But He Is Your Ability.
 
You can understand 1 John 4:4: "You are of God, my little children, and have overcome them; because greater is He that is in you than He that is in the world."
 
This is the surpassing grace of God. Weymouth's translation of Romans 5:17 is illuminating : "For if through the transgression of the one individual, Death made use of the one individual to seize the sovereignty, all the more shall those who receive God's overflowing grace and the gift of righteousness reign as kings in life ,through the one individual, Jesus Christ."
 
You have received God's overflowing grace and the gift of righteousness. That enables you to reign as a king in the realm of life through Jesus Christ.
 
What would that conception of Christianity do for the millions of earnest men and women who are struggling to get faith and to get wisdom so that they may walk well pleasing in His sight?
 
They have no knowledge of the Word. This is a revelation of the grace of God to us who are in the Body of Christ.
 
Let us notice further Phil. 4:13. One translator says : "I have strength for anything." God is my ability; He is my wisdom; He is my righteousness; He is my perfect redemption from weakness, fear, and lack. I stand complete in Him, a victor over all my enemies. I think the 20th Century Translation of Phil. 4:11 fits here "I have learned in whatsoever state I am, therein to be independent of circumstances.
"I know what it means to live on short rations; I know what it means to have an abundance. In all things, in every place, He is leading me in triumph in Christ."
 
2 Corinthians 2:14 is true: "Thanks be unto God who always leads me in triumph in every place."
 
He is making Paul a victor, a conqueror, an over comer; and is enabling him to write this revelation, most of it behind prison bars. Paul was the spiritual conqueror of the ages; and what Paul was in Christ you are in Christ.
 
Now we can live Isaiah 41:10-13
 
We ask that the Holy Spirit reveal this prophecy and promise that belongs to the Church and open our eyes to see what the Spirit is saying to us right now!
 
Isaiah 41:10-13
10 So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.(That is Jesus)
11 "All who rage against you will surely be ashamed and disgraced; those who oppose you will be as nothing and perish. 12 Though you search for your enemies, you will not find them. Those who wage war against you will be as nothing at all. 13 For I am the Lord, your God, who takes hold of your right hand and says to you, 
Do not fear; I will help you. NIV
 
Jesus is God's right hand of righteousness, and He whispers to us: "Fear thou not, for I am with thee."
 
If God is with you, then He is for you. And if He is for you, who can be against you?"
 
But the next sentence is the one: "For I am your God."
 
Think of the Creator of the universe speaking to you like that !
 
This should make you know that you are more than a conqueror. You see, this is the truth in regard to what we are in Christ when He says: "I will help you, I will uphold you and I will be your strength and ability."
 
You are not afraid of anything. Fear has lost its dominion. You and Christ are walking in triumph.
If you have Eternal Life, you have God's Nature.
 
If you have God's Nature, you have God's righteousness.
 
If you have God's righteousness, you can pray the prayer of the righteous man.
 
If you have Eternal Life, you are God's son.
 
If you are His son, you are Satan's master in Jesus' Name.
 
If you have Eternal Life you are a "branch of the Vine." Then you can bear vine-fruit; you can do the works of God.
 
You are grafted into Christ, and Christ is God. The Vine and the Branch are one. The Vine is hidden, the Branch is seen, laden with the fruit. Men see the vine life in you.