Be Careful What You Say "I Am" To

Everyday, each of us are releasing words over our lives. It is those words that are birthed from thoughts that ultimately shape the way we live. For this reason, it is important that we only utter words that actually line up with the truth. However, in order to speak the truth over our lives we must understand what the truth is. One of the enemy's biggest tactics in your life is to convince you to identify with the wrong choices you make. He knows that If he can get you to identify with your mistakes or failures, then you will begin to believe you are what you do. His goal is to implant thoughts like I am worthless, I am a loser, and I am not a good person, into our minds to negatively influence our lives. I am is a statement about identity. If I believe I am something, I will always live in accordance with the I am I claim. For example, if I always claim that I am worthless, I will continually walk and talk as a defeated, worthless victim. These I am statements are birthed from thoughts as I stated earlier. Yet the more we speak these words over ourselves, the more they take root in our subconscious mind, ultimately moving us to a point where we dont even have to think about it anymore. What we have continually spoken now becomes the reality we live in. Eventually we come to a moment in time where we actually believe our identity is wrapped up in what we do, whether good or bad. However, nothing could be further from the truth. Sure, in the natural realm, we are often slapped with an identity based on the decisions we make and the actions we take. But in the spiritual realm, your identity is constant. in other words, it can't change. The only way it can change is by a supernatural force outside of time. And Guess what, that already happened. Your identity is not determined by what you do. It is determined by what Jesus did and whether or not you have received it. As a true Christian, the problem is not your identity. That was changed when you said yes to Christ's finished work on the Cross. With your salvation came a new identity and nature; one made after the likeness of the Creator Himself. No, the problem for a born again Christian is not who they are, it is who they think they are and who they continually say they are. Whatever God speaks is the truest form of reality. So what does God say about you Christian? What does He day about your identity? Yet now he has reconciled you to himself through the death of Christ in his physical body. As a result, he has brought you into his own presence, and you are holy and blameless as you stand before him without a single fault. Colossians 1:22 NLT In Christ, you are holy and blameless. You are perfect in His sight. No longer must we identify with who others say we are. We can now stand confident, knowing we are made in His image, created to be like Him. The more you understand your new identity, the more you will live congruent with that identity. Don't believe the enemy's words regarding your identity. Speak truth over yourself daily and remind yourself of who you really are. Let your I am statements line up with who He says you are. Read the Bible and build your own list of I am statements. Scripture quotations are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright ©1996, 2004, 2007.
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