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 enemys tent. This is taking the initiative from the enemy. Col. 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 trespasses. 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 followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life. You have been delivered out of that darkness. Now declare it. Now confess it. Repeat right now, I am delivered out of the authority and dominion of darkness. Satan cannot rule my life because God is the very strength of life; and greater is He that is in me than the demoniacal 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: 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 Satans dominion. Jesus is My Lord. Eph. 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 Christs Body. This New Creation has been born out of the Heart of God. I have received Gods very Nature and Life. I am a partaker of the Divine Nature. I can hear John whisper in 1 John 5:13: These things have I written unto you, that ye may know that ye have Eternal Life, even you that believe on his name. You see, if you have partaken of Gods Nature, Gods Life, and the very Substance of His Being, 2 Cor. 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. Notice carefully that 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. 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 these streets of gold. Sense Knowledge cannot get through the gate that leads into the City of Fellowship where you are walking with God. Hear Weymouths translation of Eph. 3:19: I pray that Christ may make his home in your hearts, through your faith, so that having your roots deep and your foundation strong in love, you may become mighty to grasp the idea as it is grasped by all of Gods people of the breadth and length, the height and depth, yes, the knowledge, of the knowledge surpassing the love of Christ, so that you may be made complete in accordance with Gods own standard of completeness. Now let us turn to 2 Cor. 3:4-6: And such confidence have we through Christ to God-ward; not that we are sufficient of our-selves, to account anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God; who also made us sufficient as ministers of a new covenant. 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 Gods ability. He is calling that ability sufficiency now. He has become your ability, your sufficiency. Now you can understand Phil. 4:13: 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: Ye 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. Weymouths 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 Gods overflowing grace and the gift of righteousness reign as kings in life, through the one individual, Jesus Christ. You have received Gods 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 Cor. 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 overcomer; 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 enjoy Isa. 41:10. I want the Spirit to reveal this prophecy and promise that belongs to the Church and to the Church only; Fear thou not, for I am with thee; be not dismayed, for I am thy God; I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness. Jesus is Gods 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 thrills one: For I am thy 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 thee, I will uphold thee 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 Gods Nature. If you have Gods Nature, you have Gods righteousness. If you have Gods righteousness, you can pray the prayer of the righteous man. If you have Eternal Life, you are Gods son. If you are His son, you are Satans 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 of Love. Men see the vine life in you. The Two Kinds of Life
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