I recently posted about the importance of identity, and after that post I was inspired by a young woman who is walking out her identity in Christ. This woman has come through the refining power of God.
When you have submitted yourself to God, allowing Him to do in you what needs to be done, you will experience the recurrent power of God each day. It will be this resurrection power that will be evident, and which God uses to reach others.
The ashes that we have come from are not what keep us seeking and walking out our identity. It is our daily submission to our new life, moving forward under God’s mantle of holiness, that gives us victory.
I look for women who understand their authority. Women who, not only carry a sword, but who know how to swing that sword to destroy everything that exalts itself above God. These are women who don’t have all the answers, but who don’t allow what they have yet to understand, get in the way of taking territory for the kingdom. It is their transparency, and visible courage, that is an inspiration.
From ashes to beauty we come to know our true worth. God transforms us by His love. The evidence of this transformation is when we don’t hold back loving ourselves. When we take the love that is so freely given to us, becoming that love, then we can love others out of a depth that few understand.
Our understanding comes from an acknowledgement that out of love God sent Jesus to the world, and this acknowledgment means that we can never allow anything to come between us, and that love. When we hold onto this truth, then the enemy will never have a weapon to use against us.
God says in His Word, get wisdom and you will get understanding. A simple proverb that we all know. The wisdom of God brings us the understanding that we can use to tear down any barrier the enemy tries to erect in our life. He is defenseless against the absolute truth of God’s Word, and those that carry the sword of the Spirit, know it!
1 John 4:16 TPT We have come into an intimate experience with God’s love, and we trust in the love He has for us. God is love! Those who are living in love are living in God, and God lives through them.
1 John 4:20-21 TPT Anyone can say, “I love God,” yet have hatred toward another believer. This makes him a phony, because if you don’t love a brother or a sister, who you can see, how can you truly love God, whom you can’t see? For He has given us this command: whoever loves God must also demonstrate love to others.