Three Of The Biggest Blessings In My Life

Identity

"The value of identity, of course, is that it so often comes with purpose."
-Richard Grant

I love this quote! I think the only problem with it is that identity doesn't just come with purpose most of the time. The two are so intertwined, they can't be separated. The sad reality, though, is that a lot of people are not living out of their true identity.

I helped lead a disciple now group this weekend, and I talked to so many girls who were living under false identities that people had spoken over them for years. Instead of living as chosen daughters of the king, they had been labeled as worthless, invaluable, tainted failures. The enemy is smarter than we give him credit for I think. He knows that if he can confuse us about our identity, he disarms us from being able to live out the purpose the Lord designed for us. If we don't know who we are, or more importantly whose we are, we don't know the extent of our authority. As children of God, our identity is found in Him. He sees us as completely healed and blameless reflections of Christ. Anything that is spoken over us that doesn't agree with that identity is a lie from the enemy. So let your true identity determine your actions because "...you were designed for such a time as this" (Esther 4:14).