Have you ever asked yourself why the word of God says such awesome things about you in terms of who you are, what you have and what you can do, but you just don’t see the reality of these things come to pass in your life? Have you ever asked yourself why it seems like all God’s awesome truths seem out of reach for you? The answer is because of sin and the fallen world we live in. These have caused your identity and what God says about you to become distorted and skewed and you see yourself in a different light than God intended for you.
Your identity could have become skewed even at the very moment of conception, while you had had no influence or control over it. Yet, the hurts and pains from that moment have been stamped into your heart as feelings. Now you grow up and you got through life possibly feeling rejected and unwanted and the effects of the negativity around you become visible in your life.
How can you deal with living with the weight and baggage of things that you have been through in your life? I want you to realize that the person you are feeling yourself to be is not the person you were created to be. God has promised you that you have destiny and purpose and that your life is worthy and worthwhile!
Now it’s up to you to begin taking these promises and begin living them out as if they are true for you right now! Now what you choose to believe becomes essential. Thanks be to the sacrifice of Christ all of us have the opportunity to begin anew. We all have the equal opportunity to let go of bagage and begin living a life that brings joy and goodness into our own life and the lives of others. Concerning the hurts in your heart that you have and the things that have happened to you, you may now choose to forgive your offender, yes, any person who has spoken negatively over your life.
I also had to learn to forgive and I learned that forgiveness completely frees you so that the truth of the Kingdom of Heaven concerning your identity and who you were called to be, even before the foundation of the world, can slowly become a reality in your life. You no longer have to carry pain and hurt over which you have no influence or control. I encourage you to begin considering this tool of forgiveness. Here is a simple prayer:
Father God, I choose today to forgive… (name), for making me feel…. (fill in the blank), I choose to forgive this person for not giving me a sense of who I am called to be in You. Father God, I choose to believe….. (promises of God toward you). And I renounce the lie that you think that I am….(all the negative things that you have heard and experienced). I now hand you all the hurts and feelings that have been affecting me and I choose to meditate on being the person that You have called me to be.
Right now, make a choice not to live by the identity you have picked up along the way because of things that have happened to you. Make a choice not to live by feelings, but leave negativity and things you have no control over, behind you!
Take just one situation in you life that you would like to be freed from and begin releasing forgiveness and allow God to come through with His Kingdom Life and begin to change your circumstances. Choose to come into the identity that He has called you to have, TODAY!