Just as truly as Jesus came out from the Father, so we have come out from God through the energy of the Spirit. We are reborn of God. In 1 John 4:4 we read, "Ye are of God my little children."

We were in slavery and servants of the adversary. We are now the joyful Love Slaves of Jesus. We are heirs of God and joint-heirs with Christ, and we are coming into understanding of our Christ identity, our right standing with God, and walking in the Spirit and God's purpose for our life. Sin-consciousness has robbed us in the past of our faith; robbed us of worthiness; robbed us of our joy of Sonship. We are complete in Christ -- we are the righteousness of God in Christ.

Satan can't stand to watch our faith in God manifest into our breakthrough. He sees it as a great failure. He is determined to strike at the heart of our belief and pour out discouragement. Disillusioned by the lies of the enemy, we tend to lose faith in God and soon feel crushed under the weight of Earth's reality.

We are on the earth, but we are not of it. Our citizenship is in heaven. We are no longer a part of this satan-ruled world. We are born from above. We have the Nature and the Life of the Father -- We are in Christ.

We have become like those whose eyes had been blinded but now have received light, and we see things as they really are. We know what Grace has been bestowed upon us. We are walking in the light of this wonderful purpose-filled Life in Christ, bearing fruit that remains for His advancing Kingdom.

ALBERT FINCH MINISTRY