Do You Know Who You Are?

The “Who Am I?” Series – Part 2

Combing the shelves of any Barnes & Noble will give you some keen insight as to where we are as a society. There is a section for the history buff, another for the fiction lover, a section for hobbies and do-it-yourselfers – and if you keep walking you’ll run right into the ‘self help’ section. It’s huge. There are so many books on relationships, depression, addiction, and anxiety that they warrant their own segment of the bookstore. What does that tell you? Well, it tells me that there are thousands, if not millions of hurt and confused people who are walking in a constant state of inner turmoil.

Amazingly, no one has to live like this, and the answer is so much easier than you think. If you are sitting in confusion or involved in a painful and depressing situation right now, it can be difficult to see the way out. So, what’s the answer? A change in perception.

The main problem is the way you ‘perceive’ a problem or difficulty in your life. If you judge everything according to the existence of problems or trials, you will be left with a hopeless defeated outlook whenever the going gets tough. A defeated perception will cause you to act on the deception and walk deeper and deeper into defeat. After a while you’ll get to the point where the acceptance hurt and confusion has become a way of life.

It doesn’t have to be that way. Do you want to know what will impact you emotionally, physically and spiritually, causing you to walk in a level of peace and success that you’ve never known? –Walking in the knowledge of ‘who you are’ in Christ.

If you have accepted salvation, you have received a new identity. Old things have been left behind and all things have become new. Salvation isn’t merely a fire escape that will assure your entrance into heaven. The actual word salvation, is ‘soteria’ in the Greek. The definition of soteria is; “deliverance, safety, preservation, healing and redemption from all earthly ills.’

Many times we think of salvation in the future tense, as something to experience someday in heaven or eternity. Salvation is NOW. Once you recognize and accept your identity in Christ, you’ll be able to walk in the freedom and success that God has provided for you. He has given you redemption from earthly ills. Earthly ills include depression, anxiety, a looming divorce, a lack of finances, or any other problem you are facing.

God tells us in Isaiah 53:4 that “Jesus has surely borne our sicknesses, weaknesses, and distresses and carried our sorrows and pains.” He already did it. God has given us everything we need to be a whole, happy, healthy, and prosperous individual here on this earth.

You may be saying, “Sure, but you are not going through what I am going through. You have no idea what I’m experiencing.” — and you may be right. Your situation could seem impossible right now. Your relationship may be on the brink of failure, your job on the line, lack of finances closing in around you, or your health may be failing.

But that doesn’t change the truth of God’s salvation and what He has provided for you. So, I suppose we have somewhat of a dilemma going on…

If God has provided and paid for your deliverance from sickness, poverty, emotional bondage, depression and failure, but you are still experiencing it–then something needs to change

How do your circumstances change? By believing in the Truth. The Word assures us that We will know the Truth, and the Truth will make us free. Believing the truth of God’s Word will literally cause changes to the physical realm and turn your current situation from what it is now, to what God’s Word says it is.

Want to know more? Read on to the next section entitled “Why the Lie” where you will learn how to step out from under the lies of the enemy and walk in wholeness, freedom and provision.