Christ Connection Ministries

Believing God Told The Truth About You (Parts 1 and 2)

2 Corinthians 3:1-6 "Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some others, epistles of commendation to you, or letters of commendation from you? Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men: Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart. And such trust have we through Christ to God-ward: Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God; Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life."

Paul believed in his authenticity as an apostle. His validity was evidenced in what he had performed. He believed in his apostolic ministry despite his horrid and anti-God past. His ministry was not contingent on what people expressed to him, but what he expressed and all that Christ had done.
His confidence was sure because it did not rest in anything he had done. Surely he accomplished much but he was confident, not based upon himself, but God in him.
Therefore, men did not control how he felt about himself to the negative or positive. Not even one’s parents should have that much control such as the talk show generation:
Psalm 27:10 When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up.
When we embrace what God says about us, we will cease blaming our victimizers and oppressors for our failures and what we have become. We are a product of what we choose to believe. When we believe what God says, it overrules anything that has happened to us or what has been said to us.
Further, once men define us by our compliments, they can diminish us by their insults. What men say should challenge you or confirm you but not totally define you.
When we arrive at this place of identity, not even our accomplishments define us. We are already defined. Paul counted his accomplishments as dung, and would have gladly traded them in for knowing God better.
Note: he did believe that he was sufficient, but his sufficiency was of God.
He was confident in what God would do for him.
We are wise not to rehearse our good and to count it as dung so that we do not begin to believe in ourselves over the God in us.

Philippeans 3:3-7 "For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh. Though I might also have confidence in the flesh. If any other man thinketh that he hath whereof he might trust in the flesh, I more: Circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, an Hebrew of the Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee; Concerning zeal, persecuting the church; touching the righteousness which is in the law, blameless. But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ."

Neither what Paul accomplished nor his genealogy determined anything about him. You are not your job, you only work it. You are not your birth, you are what you believe. You are not your clothing, you just wear them. Who you are remains intact, no matter where you work, what you wear or what you have.
Paul was so confident in who he was that he knew he could give away his accomplishments and still be who he was.

1 Corinthians 2:9-16 "But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God. For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God. Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual. But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man. For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ."

We must expose ourselves to our future, and not just our past or present. God promises that we have not even begun to see, hear or even fantasize the good that is ours. It is already prepared. The only way we can get a true perspective of how God feels about us is to get some idea of the future He has planned for us.
Our dreams and plans are not really our limit if God could ever get in you heads and hearts. While He wants us to have vision and spiritual imagination, He is able to exceed our dreams—and He wants to. Therefore nothing we imagine within His will is beyond Divine reason. We must, therefore, embrace what He says. It is indescribable. That is what He believes about us. If only we would embrace it!
We have received the earnest of, or down payment on our inheritance. In His presence is the fullness of joy! We are yet to experience the impact of seeing, being and hearing what He has reserved for us.
Our spirits are often too inclined to embrace our earthly and human limitations. Be advised: The Spirit in us desires to bring us spirit to spirit conclusions with the things of God. It is important that we tune in so that our persona and demeanor are shaped by the Spirit instead of our natural side. Still, we are too earthly, natural and convinced of our sinful tendencies than we are of our sonship, and even being dead to sin. We think we are either slaves to sin, or at least partly controlled by it.
The Spirit knows both humanity and the deep things of God. That is why God is sufficient to save us.
Knowing the deep things of God give us a certain solace because we look not at the present but the future. We look not at what we see with the eye, but what we see in the Spirit.
As we see it, we talk it. The fact is, we talk what we see. Then we believe what we talk. As we talk, it works itself into our conscience and molds us.
There is a language of the Spirit. In that language we put things in their proper perspective.
Some things are spiritual issues, not emotional and physical and vice versa.
Only a spiritual person is truly capable of judging matters. Only he or she has right perspective. Because they are spiritual, they judge from a Divine perspective that distinguishes things rightly.
God allows us access to what He knows—if we will subject ourselves to Him.
The Holy Spirit teaches us all things and guides us into all truth.

Isaiah 43:21-26 "This people have I formed for myself; they shall shew forth my praise. But thou hast not called upon me, O Jacob; but thou hast been weary of me, O Israel. Thou hast not brought me the small cattle of thy burnt offerings; neither hast thou honoured me with thy sacrifices. I have not caused thee to serve with an offering, nor wearied thee with incense. Thou hast bought me no sweet cane with money, neither hast thou filled me with the fat of thy sacrifices: but thou hast made me to serve with thy sins, thou hast wearied me with thine iniquities. I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins. Put me in remembrance: let us plead together: declare thou, that thou mayest be justified."

God did not form a deformity. We are spiritually made in fearful and wonderful fashion in His image and likeness. What a glorious future and beginning—in Him!
Anything God made for Himself has all the potential to please Him. How much more is that true in the realm of the Spirit. We can please God, no matter what our past or present.
We declare the wonderful things of God, not the failure of an earthly system or fall of humanity. We are to the praise of His glory!
The only way we miss it is if we discontinue pursuing after Him Who made us well enough to call His own. We are God’s boast, His prize work!
The time you spend with God connects you with your source, your origin and purpose in life. It is not that you must pray, but rather that you designate a time to spend with God so that you become what He imagined and not what your earthly influences make you.
Believe that you can make God’s day!
What is important is that we continue to regard our roots by giving to Him, talking to Him and treating Him is unabashed fashion.
Our real worth is found in what God did to eradicate sin from our lives. He made us worth something through redemption or buying our worthless selves back. We make ourselves worthless. Through the act of redemption God says you are worth more than all the treasures that surround you. All He asks is to be remembered with our financial gifts, worship and God-conscious lifestyle rather than to live according to our former lusts and lives..
When we truly believe what He says about us, we will respond to Him and less to men and the circumstances that are imposed upon us. He will have our loyalties.

Romans 8:1-3 "There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh"
Romans 8:10 "And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness."
Romans 8:17 "And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together."

Everything is right with us when we live a Godly life. It keeps us true to the plan. Sin gets us off-course because we have to repair and refocus.
The demands and ownership Satan had on our lives are revoked by the Spirit of life. No longer do we have to live by the unrighteous demands of a law that gave us no future. Our mode of life is liberated as well as the sentence that was on us.
You are not condemned to sin. You have a choice now! Sin does not own you nor do the lusts of the flesh have power over you. As soon as we believe it we will sin less and less and less and—sinless.
Jesus came to disprove Satan and the law of sin. Sin does not have dominion, no matter how much we sin after we are saved. We must come to believe it rather than what we hear from people and what we feel within our own bodies and minds. Our theology is often redefined by our bouts with failure than by what God said about us. We are new creatures and have overcome the world. Greater is He that is in us than He that is in the world.
The body does not rule us if Christ is in us. When we come to believe that, we will live a life of control, no longer ruled by sex, food, money or people.
We can live a life free of condemnation and guilt.
Our future is bright. We must keep our future in mind. It will motivate us.
God said we are heirs. Our richest and finest days are ahead of us.
When we believe that, we will accept the days of lesser and trial of today because we know they are an investment towards the days of more. We will sow the natural to reap the spiritual.

Romans 7:22-25 "For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin."

Once we embrace this, we will become excited about the law of God.
We do have a formidable opponent but it is really only as big as we believe it to be.
If we believe God and what He said about us, we will live by our mind (where we come to entertain what God said) and not by the desires of the body or fleshly nature. Truly we will experience mind over flesh (matter)
God in us and for us is bigger than our problems!!!