One major area where the believers are defeated is in the area of self-identification. See, ignorance of your identity makes you a defeated man before the battle. If you have not been looking at the mirror, do you know that you may carry a wrong impression of yourself? But when you look at yourself in the mirror, you will be aware of your size and shape. What you are simply doing now is looking at yourself in the mirror of the word of God (2 Corinthians 3:18).
Friend, as a believer, God’s word says you are the temple of the Holy Spirit (1 Corinthians 3:16). That is, the Spirit of God dwells in you. It is the spirit in a man that determines his way of living. It is the spirit in a man that determines what dignity he will carry. That is why a drunkard had lost his dignity. This is because the drunkenness spirit is a spirit with no dignity. Its goal is to reduce its victims to zero and prepare them for shame.
See, if the Spirit of God is in you, then your life cannot but look like God’s. He is the wisest, greatest, richest, most successful, and most victorious. He rules over the heavens and earth. You cannot carry His Spirit and be a loser. The only hindrance to the manifestation of God’s Spirit in you is the ignorance of your identity.
I need to let you know that all situations will begin to respond to you if you have the Holy Spirit. Elijah, Elisha, Moses, Peter, and Paul, the apostles, to mention a few, became great by the same Holy Spirit in you. See, it would be ignorant to think the Holy Spirit is only to take you to heaven. It is also to make you experience heaven here right now. Jesus said it’s for our good that He goes to the Father that the Spirit might come (John 16:5-11). This is because it takes a Spirit to influence a man for strength to take charge for change (John 14:26). Arise to take charge.
DECLARATION:
IF THE SPIRIT OF GOD IS IN ME, THEN I AM MORE THAN MY CHALLENGES, AND I AM
RISING TO OVERCOME THEM.
“EACH MAN’S
STATUS IS DETERMINED BY THE SPIRIT IN THEM”
