You Hear God Better When You're Aware of Your Sonship
This message brings my Becoming Limitless series to a close, This series is about eliminating those internal limitations that keep us from following God. This series is not about getting rich and living your dreams, this series is about living FROM purpose and fulfilling those God given assignments in your life.
You are complete in Christ, doing things for him do not define you, but God does have things he wants you to do for him and his kingdom, and the fulfillment of those assignments increases his kingdom and brings great joy and fulfillment.
So what does he want you to do?
I personally think you can discern those assignments in an environment of love for others. In this series I suggest that you define who you love for your own understanding, and then take practical steps to act out that love for that people group, bringing the Gospel, meeting practical needs and prayerfully affecting them in such a way they turn to Jesus.
This message brings my Becoming Limitless series to a close, This series is about eliminating those internal limitations that keep us from following God. This series is not about getting rich and living your dreams, this series is about living FROM purpose and fulfilling those God given assignments in your life.
You are complete in Christ, doing things for him do not define you, but God does have things he wants you to do for him and his kingdom, and the fulfillment of those assignments increases his kingdom and brings great joy and fulfillment.
So what does he want you to do?
I personally think you can discern those assignments in an environment of love for others. In this series I suggest that you define who you love for your own understanding, and then take practical steps to act out that love for that people group, bringing the Gospel, meeting practical needs and prayerfully affecting them in such a way they turn to Jesus.
God Will Show You The Way
When God called Moses to deliver Israel from Egypt he told Moses that he would teach him what to say and do.
Exodus 4:12 Now therefore go, and I will be with your mouth and teach you what you shall speak.” 15b … and I will be with your mouth and with his mouth and will teach you both what to do.
Jesus said that he would send the Holy Spirit who would lead and guide us. Paul said we know God’s mind on matters of life and ministry and his spirit will reveal things to us that God has prepared for us.
John 16:12 “I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. 13 When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come. 14 He will glorify me, for he will take what is mine and declare it to you. 15 All that the Father has is mine; therefore I said that he will take what is mine and declare it to you.
God is speaking, do you hear him?
Sometimes yes and sometimes no, it’s that way for us all. I’d like to put a few passages together and make a point about how God speaks and how you can settle into hearing him more consistently.
The first I already posted above, John 16:12-15. Jesus promises that his spirit would lead and guide us into all truth. His spirit will declare to you all that the Father has given Jesus. The nuance is that all of that is yours too.
The other 2 passages are 1 Corinthians 2:1-16 and Romans 8:9-16.
1 Corinthians 2
9 However, as it is written:
“What no eye has seen, what no ear has heard, and what no human mind has conceived” — the things God has prepared for those who love him— Isaiah 64:4
10 these are the things God has revealed to us by his Spirit. The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. 11 For who knows a person’s thoughts except their own spirit within them? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. 12 What we have received is not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may understand what God has freely given us. 13 This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual realities with Spirit-taught words. 14 The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit. 15 The person with the Spirit makes judgments about (understands) all things, but such a person is not subject to merely human judgments, 16 for, “Who has known the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?” (Isaiah 40:13). But we have the mind of Christ.
If you have the spirit of God, you have his mind on the issues of life. By the way, if you’re born again you have his spirit.
Romans 8:9 You, however, are not in the realm of the flesh but are in the realm of the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, they do not belong to Christ.
14 For those who are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God. 15 The Spirit you received does not make you slaves, so that you live in fear again; rather, the Spirit you received brought about your adoption to sonship. And by him we cry, “Abba, Father.” 16 The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God’s children.
God’s spirit within you testifies to you or bears witness to you that you are his child. God is speaking to you and what he is saying is this, “you’re my child.”
We all want to hear God but are we hearing him reassure to us that we belong to him, that we’re safe in him, that we’re his beloved and favored child?
If you want to hear God’s leading for the assignments he has for you, make sure that you’re hearing him bear witness with your spirit that you’re his child. Anytime you pray or seek the Lord for wisdom and direction, allow him to bear witness to you that you are his and he is yours. Get excited about your place in his family and allow it to establish a peace that can not be shaken - then turn your attention to what he wants you to do.
Identity first, obedience second, it’s a winning combination.
There’s a Difference Between Dreams and Assignments from God
Assignments from God are completed FROM identity, not FOR identity. Once you know that you are already a child in his kingdom (by grace through faith), he equips you as an ambassador to complete assignments.
Ephesians 2:10 For we are God's handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.
An assignment from God has to do with those good works you were created unto. An assignment has to do with those works God has prepared for you to do. An assignment is something God wants you to do as an ambassador of his kingdom. God may have multiple assignments for you throughout your life, some are fulfilled in a day, some are walked out over a lifetime.
God has things he wants you to do, don’t you want to do them?
Assignments from God are completed FROM identity, not FOR identity. Once you know that you are already a child in his kingdom (by grace through faith), he equips you as an ambassador to complete assignments.
Ephesians 2:10 For we are God's handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.
An assignment from God has to do with those good works you were created unto. An assignment has to do with those works God has prepared for you to do. An assignment is something God wants you to do as an ambassador of his kingdom. God may have multiple assignments for you throughout your life, some are fulfilled in a day, some are walked out over a lifetime.
God has things he wants you to do, don’t you want to do them?
It’s important to keep in mind that you do not derive your identity by completing these assignments. He has given you the power to be his child by grace through faith in the atoning work of Jesus Christ, he adopted you and that’s it, you’re his child.
Nothing you do for God will ever determine whether or not you’re saved, whether or not God loves you, whether or not your salvation is secure - the completion of assignments are to be completed BECAUSE you are an accepted, righteous and holy child of God.
What Are Dreams?
Dreams: a cherished aspiration, ambition, or ideal
- Aspiration: a hope or ambition of achieving something
- Ambition: a strong desire to do or to achieve something,
typically requiring determination and hard work
Dreams are those things you want to accomplish in life that may not have much to do with ministry. Dreams are perfectly fine to have. Your dreams and your assignments may coincide. Your dreams may finance your assignments. BUT, living your dreams will not bring the same kind of spiritual fulfillment that completing assignments will.
You may have a dream to travel the world, build a successful business, be a world class artist or become a star athlete - all of those are fine, but those dreams are most likely not the kinds of assignments God has for you as an ambassador in his kingdom.
You might use your influence as a professional athlete or take advantage of opportunities that traveling may create, and yes there may be assignments within each of those dreams, but the attainment of those dreams alone is not the same as completing God-ordained assignments.
Watch a clip from an interview with Tom Brady from 2005, he now has 6 Super Bowl wins.
This is not a judgment against Tom, it’s just an illustration, he achieved his dreams and it didn’t bring fulfillment, he was looking for more.
Some of you think that achieving your dreams will do it for you, it won’t. Dreams are fun, they bring a lot of excitement, but there’s more.
The Sweet Spot
Yes, of course, some of you have dreams that are also divine assignments, I have those too. That’s the sweet spot, when your income, your dreams, and your assignment are the same thing, but that’s not the case for everyone.
I hope you get to live your dreams, I hope your dreams pay you, but if they don’t, I pray you still fulfill the assignments God has for you. In doing so you’ll have more fulfillment and contentment than the achievement of any dream could bring.
Dreams are something you want to accomplish or experience. Dreams typically require hard work to be realized.
The Peter Pan Syndrome
This is the part where I may upset or offend people, watch this incredibly insightful explanation of Peter Pan.
Peter Pan is more than a children's tale, it's a warning. The warning is you better grow up and make mature decisions. Peter doesn't want to grow up so he stays in Neverland where he's magical. If he joins the real world he'll no longer be magical.
Peter's biggest enemy is a mean man who has been bitten by the crocodile of time, Captain Hook. Peter makes fun of the man who has been affected by time, he taunts him while he lives in his fantasy land.
Peter also never gets to have a real relationship with a woman, he has to settle for Tinkerbell, who can't talk. An immature boy can't speak with a real woman anyway. Peter is also king of the Lost Boys, another group of boys who are hiding from the real world. They just never grow up.
Peter seems fun and unrestricted but he never makes the sacrifice of maturity. He never lays down his fanciful dreams of childhood and discovers the wonder of adulthood. He's grown but he still sees the world through the mentality of a child.
Too many men are living in Neverland. They end up divorced, they never develop a career, they don't put in the sacrifices to come out the other side into a world where you get to actually live and accomplish dreams. Meaningful dreams, not just fanciful dreams.
The moral to the story is growing up, not just grow up but take on the responsibility of maturity. Maturity is able to enjoy life in all its wonder much more completely than the immature dreamer who never makes it out of childhood.
Conclusion
I love Jordan Peterson, I appreciate his insights and direct nature of communication. I found this illustration to be very appropriate regarding the subject of dreams and fulfilling assignments from God.
Life with Jesus isn’t like it is in Neverland. Life with Jesus requires paying the price of dying to yourself and picking up your cross. The secret is, there is incredible fulfillment form picking up that cross and coming out on the other side. The other side of maturity is fulfillment.
I hope this is helpful to you. Some of you may be reading this and feel a sense of pressure. I don’t want to offend you but it may be time to just get a job and learn to be productive at something. Develop the character of consistency and let go of the fantasy that life is easy where all your dreams come true.
I know that’s a bit harsh to say but I really feel at this time, there are people who need to understand who they are in Christ, get to work, and seize opportunities to serve God and fulfill those assignments as they come.
Confess The Word of God to Renew Your Mind and Be Transformed
You are transformed as you renew your mind (Romans 12:2). There is no better source for mind-renewal than the word of God.
There are several methods and applications to root the word in your heart. You can read, pray, meditate, confess, incorporate into art, listen to, and sing songs about the word of God, but in all of those you must hold the word in your heart to give it time to root and bear fruit.
I want to focus on the power of confession in this article. For a little more context, I am discussing confession in light of renewing your mind and developing confidence in the area of your assignment from God.
You are transformed as you renew your mind (Romans 12:2). There is no better source for mind-renewal than the word of God.
There are several methods and applications to root the word in your heart. You can read, pray, meditate, confess, incorporate into art, listen to, and sing songs about the word of God, but in all of those, you must hold the word in your heart to give it time to root and bear fruit.
I want to focus on the power of confession in this article. For a little more context, I am discussing confession in light of renewing your mind and developing confidence in the area of your assignment from God.
You might ask “how do I know what my assignment is?” Here’s the short version - ask yourself “who do I love?” When you know who you love you can then determine how you will love them and get busy on your assignment, God will give you the details along the way.
The Greek word for confess is homologeō , which means “to say the same thing, to agree with, to profess.”
When you confess God’s word you are saying the same thing God is saying about whatever you are confessing. You are coming into agreement with God. You are professing his wisdom, logic, promises and faithfulness over your life and circumstances.
In this Becoming Limitless series, we are using the power of confession to build a Confession Script for your assignment from God.
I gave my church the assignment to write down several identity passages as well as a few passages that relate to their assignment from God. Scroll down and watch previous sermons to discover how to determine your assignment from God. I invite you to work on the same assignment. Compile the list then read it out loud as part of your prayer time. Say it until you feel it, say it until you believe it.
You don’t confess the word to make God move and you don’t confess it to magically make things happen in your life, you confess it to make it believable to your heart.
All things are possible to those who believe!!
If you want to be limitless, do whatever it takes to believe!!
As you go about fulfilling God’s assignments for your life it is important to keep your mind renewed and guard against those pesky internal limitations that seek to disqualify you from fulfilling your assignment.
A Confession Script is a powerful tool to keep your heart confident in your identity in Christ and focused on the goal of completing your assignment.
Do yourself a favor and use God’s word to renew your mind. Put on your true identity by confessing God’s word over every internal issue and external circumstance. The word of God is alive and powerful, co-labor with it to speak life over your future!!
Watch This Powerful Video of A Seed Growing to Understand How God’s Word Works in Your Heart
When you remember that you’re forgiven and God has cleansed you from your sins, you are free to live untethered. The strength of sin of the law but the strength of righteousness is freedom. (See last week’s article for more on this idea).
From there on you have to guard your heart against the deceitfulness of riches and the cares of this world, as well as not yield your body to sin. You do so to keep your heart and conscience clear to hear and follow God’s instructions.
There is a responsibility to freedom. True freedom does not seek permissiveness, it seeks righteousness.
When you remember that you’re forgiven and God has cleansed you from your sins, you are free to live untethered. The strength of sin of the law but the strength of righteousness is freedom. (See last week’s article for more on this idea).
From there on you have to guard your heart against the deceitfulness of riches and the cares of this world, as well as not yield your body to sin. You do so to keep your heart and conscience clear to hear and follow God’s instructions.
There is a responsibility to freedom. True freedom does not seek permissiveness, it seeks righteousness.
You can steward your freedom in Christ well and watch the free gift of righteousness bear fruit beyond measure. You don’t have to convince God to move, you just have to stop allowing things into your heart that choke out his word from growing into your life.
God Has Moved
God has set in motion all you will ever need already in Christ. Everything you will ever pray for has been given you in seed form in Christ. All provision, healing and deliverance is already a true reality in Christ and it’s seeking to grow into your life. Like a seed in the ground trying to break through the ground and grow, so are all of God’s promises hidden within Christ who is within you.
We are not trying to get God to act on our behalf, we are trying to experience the fruit of what’s already available.
Christ is the soil in which all of God’s will abides, but it is not far from you, it is in your newly created heart, trying to break through the soil of your life and bear its abundant fruit in every single aspect of your life, no matter what external circumstance you may find yourself in.
Affirm your identity in Christ, affirm you are the temple of the spirit of the living, holy God, acknowledge all that he’s done in you through Christ, and watch his character develop into your life.
Clear away the distractions that rob faith and rest in your true eternal identity which is a child of God, a current citizen of Heaven with all of his kingdom within you now. Yield and let it grow.
Making Your Life Count
This process is not to make you a better Christian or to earn blessings from God, engaging in the process of guarding your heart from the cares of this world, the deceitfulness of riches and the lust of other things is for your fruitfulness and effectiveness.
God has some things he wants you to do to spread the good news of his kingdom, if you are burdened with guilt, debt and sin consciousness then you probably won’t have the peace and confidence to fulfill those assignments.
You are a blood washed child of God, that won’t change, but the Gospel needs to be spread. You have some things in your heart that need to be birthed into this world. You are a significant member of the body of Christ that needs to be bold and free to express your creativity in Christ.
You are important!!
Take the time to tend the garden of your heart. Don’t allow things in that rob your energy and confidence. You can do this!! God will help you!!
Be bold, guard your heart and take steps forward i your assignment from God!!
Watch the video above for the whole sermon.
How To Overcome Limiting Beliefs That Keep You From Growing and Succeeding
When you try to grow and move beyond your current place in life, you may experience limiting beliefs that try to keep you stuck. The good news is, if you know it’s coming, you can be prepared to face and overcome those internal limitations.
Insecurities, past failures, things said to you by parents, fear about money - all kinds of things may rise up in your thinking and attempt to derail you from growing and moving forward. The key is to know who you are in Christ, remember that you’re forgiven, and be honest with yourself. What do you do when you try to move forward and face internal opposition?
When you try to grow and move beyond your current place in life, you may experience limiting beliefs that try to keep you stuck. The good news is, if you know it’s coming, you can be prepared to face and overcome those internal limitations.
Insecurities, past failures, things said to you by parents, fear about money - all kinds of things may rise up in your thinking and attempt to derail you from growing and moving forward.
The key is to know who you are in Christ, remember that you’re forgiven, and be honest with yourself.
What do you do when you try to move forward and face internal opposition?
Peter teaches a valuable principle in living by faith. He essentially encourages us to live by faith and do it well. He suggests making sure these specific character attributes are present in your lives as you seek to live by faith, following Jesus.
The interesting thing about it this, if you don’t have these godly attributes in your life, his solution is not to try to do better or work harder to be a good person, his solution is for you to remember that you’re already forgiven. Peter suggests that you have forgotten that your sins have been cleansed if you aren’t seeing these godly traits in your life.
Why would remembering that your sins have been cleansed develop godly character traits in your life?
You’d remember that you’re forgiven
You’d remember that God has cleansed you with the life-blood of Jesus
You’d remember that because you’ve been forgiven and cleansed that you’re holy before God because of this cleansing
You’d remember that you’re now in right standing before God because of this cleansing
You’d remember that you have a new heart that that has God’s character traits encoded within it
You’d remember that His spirit is in you
You’d remember that God is not holding your sins against you, even the sin of not being godly enough
You’d remember that you’re free from the law and that you’re not saved by works
You’d remember that you’re under grace and God is seeking to continually transform you into the image of Jesus
The list goes on…
Because you’d remember those things you mind would be renewed to your true eternal identity in Christ and you’d naturally bear the fruit of the character traits Peter suggests should be part of your faith.
The conclusion is that if you aren’t living godly, remember all these things, and it will renew your mind to the point that you experience transformation and naturally live how God would lead you to.
It’s a beautiful thing when you recognize the power of our freedom in Christ and how God’s spirit works best in us when our hearts are free from the condemnation of not being good enough. It may be paradoxical but powerful for certain.
Then What?
Keep in mind we’re talking about growth in your personal life. We’re also talking about moving forward in your assignment from God. I just know that all kinds of things will come up to keep you down and I want you to be prepared to overcome them when they do.
Once you have this process as part of your faith-walk in Christ you can face and conquer anything. This process will not allow you to stay in sin. This process will not allow you to stay in a place of debilitating limitations. It will remind you of the power that works in you and compel you to follow God freely and boldly!!
From then on you’re only limited by your unwillingness to remind yourself of how free and unlimited you are in Him!!
Whether you think you can, or whether you think you can’t, you’re right ~ Henry Ford
Practical Example
So let’s say you need to add more self-control to your faith walk with Jesus. You may need more self-control because you keep sinning. It would be important for you to go to God and confess your sin but you must do it from the attitude that you’re already forgiven, you’re not going to him for forgiveness, you’re acknowledging and remembering that you’re already cleansed and in right relationship with him.
This process promotes personal responsibility to guard your freedom and not slip back in to sin.
When you go to God with your sin as a believer, you aren’t seeking to be forgiven, you’re seeking to be reminded by God that you were already forgiven. It is incredibly powerful to know that you have not lost standing with God, that it was all in your own mind.
Now - because of your failures you may feel a sense of remorse for your sin, which is appropriate. As you recapture the reality that you’re already cleansed in Christ, it repositions your mind to walk in what’s already true of you.
You can’t become more virtuous, but you may forget that you already possess that character trait in Christ.
You’re not confessing sin to become forgiven, you’re doing it to be reminded that you already are. As you remember who you are in him, you will begin to display those attributes.
Know That It’s Coming
If you experience an old emotion, an old sin or something else from your past as you try to move forward, just remember that your heart is serving things up to you something that you need to process and let go.
If you bury something in your heart and never deal with it, when you go digging in there to get rid of it, the aroma of that thing may resurface. You may not have been equipped with the transformative power of the Gospel when you stuffed that issue away in your heart.
Now you have the knowledge and the grace to get rid of it for good!!
So be ready. As you seek to grow and step into your calling and assignment from God, you may be your own worst enemy. You may have such deeply rooted beliefs that try to hold you back - BUT - now you know how to deal with them. Now you know who you are in Christ. Now you know the sufficiency of Christ’s sacrifice on your behalf, and you can face anything about yourself and come out victorious in Christ!!!
You stand in a place of connection with the father that’s based on the finished work of Christ. He loves you, he has forgiven you, and you’re safe in him. From that place you can deal with anything, no matter what comes up, you can get it out of your life and get rid of it for good. No matter the limitation, you can take it to God and experience the power to be free.
How to Always be Effective and Fruitful
Do you want to always be fruitful and effective? Do this:
Make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness, and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love. For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they keep you from being ineffective or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. 2 Peter 1:5-8
Peter says if you do these things it will keep you from being ineffective and unfruitful.
I think we’d all agree these are good qualities that every Jesus follower should have in their lives. So what does it mean if you do not have these qualities, what should you do? Does it mean you need to work harder to be a better Christian? Let’s see…
Do you want to always be fruitful and effective? Do this:
Make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness, and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love. For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they keep you from being ineffective or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. 2 Peter 1:5-8
Peter says if you do these things it will keep you from being ineffective and unfruitful.
I think we’d all agree these are good qualities that every Jesus follower should have in their lives. So what does it mean if you do not have these qualities, what should you do? Does it mean you need to work harder to be a better Christian? Let’s see…
For whoever lacks these qualities is so nearsighted that he is blind, having forgotten that he was cleansed from his former sins. 2 Peter 1:9
Peter’s solution is this - remember that you’re forgiven and your sins have been cleansed.
In other words, affirm the finished work of Christ and your identity in Him and godly character will be the fruit.
Because you are already forgiven and cleansed from all your sin, you should seek to live out the character of God. In fact, you cannot live out the character of God in your life without being cleansed, forgiven and in-dwelt by his spirit. This doesn’t mean you should continue in sin, God forbid, we’re under grace, not sin.
You Were Already Cleansed
Peter says if you are not living out these character attributes it’s because you have forgotten that you were already cleansed. Because God has cleansed you, the qualities and character traits are a byproduct, not something you strive to add to your behavior.
Peter says if you’re not displaying this fruit, it’s not because you aren’t truly saved, it’s because you have forgotten that you have already been sanctified and made holy.
Why do I equate Peter’s phrase “sins were cleansed” with sanctification and holiness? Because they’re the SAME THING. The process by which God cleanses you of sin is sanctification. Once something is properly sanctified it is holy.
Sanctification is a one-time event in your spirit that then has lasting effects in the rest of your being.
How Do You “Add To Your Faith?”
You can’t add to your salvation, but you can add to your faith.
First of all, the definition of faith is “to be confidently persuaded.”
Adding to your faith means you do things that reinforce your confidence in God so you’re more persuaded of who he is.
Living uprightly causes your heart to be confident before God. When you’re confident before God, you will not limit his actions in your life. John actually says you’ll have everything you ask when your heart is confident before God.
Here’s my paraphrase of what Peter is saying, “It’s hard out there guys, make sure you’re not drawing back in your faith. I have seen Jesus, the resurrected Jesus, I know what it’s like to deny him and turn your back on him. I don’t want you to lose faith and do what I did. Live well so your life testifies of God and his righteousness. Strive to display godly character. And if you become ineffective and unfruitful, remind yourself of the FINISHED WORK of Christ in your heart. Remember all that he has done for you. In remembering, you bring glory and honor to God because remembering manifests in strong faith.”
So if you’re not living in a way that “good Christians” should live, it’s because you aren’t presently experiencing the power of the Gospel, you’re not inspired by Christ’s actions for you, you’re not living from your new-covenant, new-creation identity - you’ve forgotten you’re already forgiven.
Why Is This Important?
Too many Christians think they have to become better as if they’re not already complete in him and they need to become something more than they already are. More righteous, more sanctified, more holy, etc… Peter affirms that you’re already cleansed, you’re already all those things, so if you aren’t living that way, go back and affirm who you are and what he’s done.
Too many Christians don’t understand the sufficiency of the sacrifice of Christ for salvation and a blessed, godly life. I want you to be confident in your salvation and know that you can’t improve on what God has done. You can only deepen your appreciation and understanding for what he’s already done, and as you do so it bears godly fruit in your life.
Homework
Let me give you some homework, go through these attributes and look up each word in a Greek lexicon. (click for lexicon links)
2 Peter 1:5 For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith virtue; and to virtue, knowledge; 6 and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; 7 and to godliness, brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness, love.
Take some time to think about what each one of them looks like in your life. Get a vision for what each attribute looks like in your life. Affirm who you are in Christ and make decisions that are in alignment with these character traits.
Keeping in mind that you are not trying to become these things, you are just getting a vision for what they look like as the fruit of a person that is already forgiven and right with God.
Rest in him, be confident of your new-creation identity in Christ and never forget you’re forgiven.
These FREE series go deeper into your new-creation identity:
This message brings my Becoming Limitless series to a close, This series is about eliminating those internal limitations that keep us from following God. This series is not about getting rich and living your dreams, this series is about living FROM purpose and fulfilling those God given assignments in your life.
You are complete in Christ, doing things for him do not define you, but God does have things he wants you to do for him and his kingdom, and the fulfillment of those assignments increases his kingdom and brings great joy and fulfillment.
So what does he want you to do?
I personally think you can discern those assignments in an environment of love for others. In this series I suggest that you define who you love for your own understanding, and then take practical steps to act out that love for that people group, bringing the Gospel, meeting practical needs and prayerfully affecting them in such a way they turn to Jesus.