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In Christ We Are…

Able

Accepted

Alive

Beloved of God

Blessed

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Created for good works

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Able

Accepted

Alive

Beloved of God

Blessed

Chosen

co-crucified

co-heirs

Citizens of Heaven

Created for good works

Free

Justified

I can do all things throughChrist who strengthens me.
Phillippians 4:13

In Him We are Able

If you ever tried to break free from something, you know the pain of the struggle and failure. But we no longer have to do things in our own strength. Before accepting Christ, we were dependent on ourselves, which is why we often fail to change. However, With Christ, we have been given the ability to accomplish everything that God has called us to be. No matter how impossible the task, God has made it possible.

“for it is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure.”
Philippians 2:13

“Jesus said to him, “If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes.”
Mark 9:23

We can rest in the confidence that every situation, every challenge, and every Bad habit is changeable with the ability God has given us through His Word.

“Accept one another, then, just as Christ accepted you, in order to bring praise to God.”

Romans 15:7

“To the praise of the glory of His grace, by which He made us accepted in the Beloved. In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace.“
Ephesians 1:6-7

We are Accepted

The Blood of Christ Covers our Sins and Makes us acceptable in the sight of the Lord. It doesn’t matter what our past sins are or the mess we are currently in; Once we ask God to forgive us and we receive His son as Our Lord and Savior, Our slate is wiped clean, and God accepts us, Just as we are. We are washed clean and empowered to break free from the power Sin held over us. We are then able to meet the call to present ourselves as living sacrifices to God.

“I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.”Ramans 1:12

“For whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.”
Romans 10:13

“There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.”
Romans 8:1-2

God did not send his son to free us from our sins so we could continue to wallow in the Mud of our past; He washed us clean so we could then walk in righteousness.

One of the great tactics of the enemy is to hold us captive to our past with condemnation. Satan does not want us to be free. He does not want us to be strong because he knows when we are, he is done. If you have repented, God has forgiven you and remembers your sin no more. Don’t allow the torment of the enemy to keep you from the future God has for you. Satan will continually remind you of your mistakes to keep you focused on your lack rather than God’s abundance. But if you resist him and remind him of the word of the Lord that establishes your acceptance in Christ, he will flee from you.

But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, ⁵even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),
Ephesians 2:4-5

We Are Alive In Christ

When we accepted Christ as our Lord and Saviour, we were made dead to sin and alive in Christ. Baptism is a type and shadow of the death, burial, and resurrection of the believer being crucified with Christ. If we are dead to sin, It no longer holds power over us. Our debt has been paid, and we are now free. Every curse assigned to the sinner is now broken because we have been redeemed from the curse of the law through the sacrifice of Christ.

Why is this knowledge important? I’m glad you asked. Knowing we are free from the curse of the law removes the power of the devil to lie to us and get us to agree with him that we are supposed to be sick, bound by sin, and living in lack and poverty. When we know the power of being dead to sin, we can fight back and resist the lies of the enemy so that he must take his attack and flee from us.

“knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin. For he who has died has been freed from sin. Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him, knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no longer has dominion over Him. For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God. Likewise you also, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
Romans 6:6-11

And this is the testimony: that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life.
1 John 5:11-12

To all who are in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints:

Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Romans 1:7

We are Loved

I am my beloved’s, And my beloved is mine. He feeds his flock among the lilies.
Song Of Solomon 6:3

What does it mean to be God’s beloved? We are the object of God’s affection. He loves us with unconditional Love, that means even when we fall short, even when we fail, get lost, or muddy ourselves up, God Loves us. His love for us is so great that even while we were still sinners, He gave His own son to rescue us. The Apostle Paul said He was fully convinced that nothing could separate us from the great love of Our God, “For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, ³⁹nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord”(Romans 8:38-38). Love is the most powerful force we have against the enemy of our soul. The apostle Paul says,

“I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have continued my faithfulness to you
Jeremiah 31:3

“Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. ³And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing… And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.”
(1 Corinthians 13:1-3,13)

It is the Love of God that sets us free and transforms us; It is the love of God that causes Him to never leave us or forsake us. It is the love of God that causes him to have mercy and Grace for Us. It is the love of God working through us that sets others free. It is a testimony and a witness of Who we belong to.

“By this all men will know that you are My disciples if you have love for one another”
(John 13:35)

The Power of God’s love is unfathomable; it transforms the hearts of the Lost. One of the first assignments God gave me was to Love my Husband Unconditionally. That assignment came shortly after I first received Christ as my savior; it was the Love of God Working in me that caused my Husband to finally believe. When I first shared my faith in Jesus, He wasn’t convinced. In fact, he was obstinate in his disbelief, but when he finally received Christ, his testimony was of the love that Christ showed him through me that finally revealed the truth. Neve4r Underestimate the Power Of God’s Unconditional Love.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ,
Ephesians 1:3

We Are Blessed

Our many Blessings start all the way back at the beginning, in The Garden of Eden. Even when Adam and Eve betrayed God, He promised our enemy would not have victory over us but would certainly be defeated. God continues with the Promises of Abraham and brings everything to completion in our Inheritance with Jesus Christ. God has never failed to bless His people and fulfill his oath to provide, protect, and Prevail. The Blessing Of Abraham is Ours because we are the His promised descendants through our faith in Jesus Christ. When we accepted Christ as our Lord and Savior, we were adopted in ton the family of God, which gives us access to the blessing promised to Abraham and his descendants. This powerful promise has a condition attached to it, but it is a condition that all of Us can meet if we choose to follow the Lord with all of our Hearts. Just before God spells out all that He is offering access to, He says, “IF you will listen diligently to the Voice of the Lord,” Followed by, “ ALL these blessings Shall come Upon You IF you heed the voice of the Lord” Listening Is not simply the act of Hearing Gods word it Is hearing Gods word and Acting Upon its directions. We display our faith in God’s word by doing what it says.

And God is able to make all grace (every favor and earthly blessing) come to you in abundance, so that you may always and under all circumstances and whatever the need be self-sufficient [possessing enough to require no aid or support and furnished in abundance for every good work and charitable donation].
2 Corinthians 9:8

“But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. ²³For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man observing his natural face in a mirror; ²⁴for he observes himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was. ²⁵But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in what he does.” ( James 1: 22-25)

In God’s Promise to Abraham, we are Promised to be blessed no matter where we may find ourselves; we are promised that our children will be blessed, and livelihood will be blessed, our food will be blessed, and we are blessed as we come and go. The Lord promises that our enemies who rise up against us will be defeated, flee from us, and be scattered as they flee. The Lord promises to Command his blessing Upon you. Do you think anyone or anything can resist the command of the Lord? The blessing Continues to promise that the Lord will establish you IF you keep the commandments of His word and walk in His way. God promises to open His treasury to you and Bless all the work of your hand. He promises you will be the head and not the tail above and not beneath “if you heed the commandments of the Lord your God, which I command you this day and are watchful to do them. This is a powerful blessing that we have access to, but God was sure to communicate that these blessings are If we heed His Voice 4 times, he reminds us that these blessings come through obedience to His word. If our lives are not reflecting this promise, we can be sure it is because we are not heeding his word.

“ If you will listen diligently to the voice of the Lord your God, being watchful to do all His commandments which I command you this day, the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth… And all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you if you heed the voice of the Lord your God.”

Read Deuteronomy 28:1-14 in your bible and meditate on the power of this great promise and everything possible when we trust and follow what the Lord has said.

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