In Christ you are free to be who you are and do what you were created to do.
God’s creativity is alive within your heart and you are a living, walking expression of the wonder and glory of Christ.
Christ is the very source of life inside you, he has re-made you in Him and the amazing qualities of the person of Christ are now formed in your heart.
You are a wonderful new creation of Christ, an awesome expression of the love and grace of God.
Christ is the place where weaknesses are welcomed.
He is the safe harbour of our hope. Jesus loves us for who we are. For now in Christ we carry the divine nature in our hearts.
We must never be afraid to throw our lives open to God.
Be honest, say how you feel, express all your thoughts and let him heal your hurts and free your emotions.
God loves you, all of you including your weaknesses and doubts.
Christ lives in you and you are full of him. Every moment of your life you now free and blameless to experience his joy and love in your life.
God delights in you and his delight will make your weaknesses strong.
You are God’s prized possession and his power is alive in you.
In Christ you have been perfected forever.
All your sin has been dealt with at the cross, every sin of the whole world has been forgiven at the cross.
In Christ you have been cleansed, perfected, purified and made holy, once and for all time. Not by anything that you have done but through the sacrifice of Jesus at the cross.
His sacrifice not only forgave you and not only took away all your sin but it completely renewed you that you are now perfect, blameless and free.
Free to live in perfect harmony with God and to know and experience his abundance in your life.
Today there is nothing between you and God anymore.
Think of how God sees Jesus – God finds no flaw in him, God finds no mistakes in him. God is perfectly satisfied with His son.
Christ is perfectly pleasing, acceptable, excellent and righteous in God’s eyes. In fact, the son is so perfect that there is no way God would need to improve him. Christ is complete and right before the Father.
Today, that is the way God sees you. When God looks at you He sees Christ in you, Christ alive and working in you. For you are now righteous in Christ and his abundant life is your life.
See yourself as God sees you, in Christ, holy and righteous, redeemed and a New Creation full of God.
God in Christ has demonstrated His love to you.
God’s love is bigger, greater, more self-sacrificing , more amazing and more abundant than any other love.
God’s love never fails, never ends and keeps on going no matter the circumstances, obstacles or cost.
When we ran from God and hide from him, He chased after us, caught us and embraced us.
God is for you, He has already moved to help you and His commitment to you is demonstrated in His love for you , poured out to you freely in Christ.
The heart of the universe is perfect love.
This love has been given to us by and through grace, and grace is not a doctrine or a theology but a person, Jesus Christ.
He followed us into our own darkness. The darkness we had fashioned, we had so expertly created by our own hands and the God’s we had so convincingly made to satisfy our hearts desires. It was here behind the walls we built of our own imaginations that we thought we could finally escape God.
But God instead of rejecting us gave us the freedom to follow our own cravings and offered himself up and ran straight into our arms. He sent himself as the messanger of reconciliation and took our judgement, our punishment and gave us mercy offered up in grace.
We can have abundant life because of His determination to deliver us from the separation that we had created.
Christ never gives up on you, never leaves you and never forsakes you.
You are the delight of the Father’s heart the joy of the eternal God who adores you from beyond time
For God’s love doesn’t depend upon you, isn’t conditional to your response, it is founded and shown in the sacrifice of Christ who loved and died for you when you had turned your back on him.
In the depths of your heart is a residence of perfect love for the precious son of heaven has planted himself into the garden of your heart.
You were created in the image of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
You were designed to be a reflection of the Trinity.
You were formed by the glory of God, in the glory of God to radiate throughout eternity the glory of God.
The love of God, which is out if time, entered time in you and took up residence in your jar of clay.
And just as the three in one draw their identity from each other, we were created to draw our identity from our creator. This identity is the real treasure our hearts desires. And this identity is the value of our true worth.
To look for indentity in anything else diminishes our value, to each other and to ourself.
Our value is a reflection of our hearts treasure.
You are a child of your Father’s love and you are beautiful, a captivating image of your father’s love and everytime He looks at you it reminds him of the consuming passionate love that created you.
Above all else you are the climax, the pinnacle of creation and God sacrificed himself so you could run straight back into your Father’s arms.
Your real identity is found and established in the heart of the Father’s love.
“For though the mountains should depart and the hills be shaken or removed, yet My love and kindness shall not depart from you, nor shall My covenant of peace and completeness be removed, says the Lord, Who has compassion on you.” – Isaiah 54:10
This remarkable verse is the promise of the reign of the coming King. The establishment of a Kingdom Covenant that would surpass creation and time.
The apostle Paul in his letter to the Romans declared exactly the same message when he wrote, “I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present or the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
It is an unconditional covenant, a covenant founded and kept by the finished work of Christ. A covenant birthed by the desire and passion of God. A covenant created before the foundations of the world and ignited by the Cross.
For in Jesus Christ is the fullness of God and all God’s love, kindness, peace, completeness and compassion is in Christ.
The promise of the King is now the Kingdom alive inside you. For all God is and all Christ is, is contained in the Kingdom Covenant alive in you.
The unconditional declaration of Christ over you is that He is the eternal promise of God, given to release you into the fullness of God. God’s gift, freely given and all you do is receive him and live in its fullness.
“For your Maker is your Husband—the Lord of hosts is His name—and the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer; the God of the whole earth He is called.” – Isaiah 54:5
The promise of God here is magnified in His commitment to deliver his people from their captivity, the promise of a kinsman to free us from the shadow of death and transfer us into the fullness of the Kingdom.
The slavery of the consequences of sin are so deeply embedded in our world that we cannot escape its invading influence in our thinking and emotions. It slowly seeps away our trust and delight in pleasing our Father, but Christ is our redeemer.
Jesus Christ purchased for us an eternal redemption. His blood poured out for us cleanses our conscience from all condemnation, all guilt, all shame and all feelings of separation.
Redemption means deliverance form all captivity and entry into the unfading glory of God.
Jesus Christ entered the world to bring you into the glory presence of God, to release you from the prison of guilt and fee you from the dudgeon of condemnation.
The baby born in a manger, to a teenage girl was the promised redeemer, the sacrifice given for you to deliver you from all your captivity.
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