Our Identity in Christ

Guest Speaker: Apostle William Epps

• Our challenge is our soul.
  • There is not a circumstance or situation in which our soul is not required to make a decision.
  • The natural mind
    • Imagination
    • Intellect
    • Thought
    • Logic
    • Reasoning
    • In the Kingdom, we need to operate by faith, not by the natural mind
  • Our will
    • Decisions
    • Choice
    • Intent
    • Purposes
    • Desire
      • Not all desires are from the Lord
      • He will give us His desires as we grow closer to Him.
      • When we pray for our desire and it does not come to pass, it’s because our desire does not line up with His
    • Our will needs to be sanctified and brought into alignment with God’s will to operate in the Kingdom
  • Our emotions
    • The Lord is not moved by our emotions.
      • We cannot invoke His mercy through tears.
      • He is moved by agreement with His Word, in faith.
• Our Identity
  • Bloodline inheritance that we took on when we came to Christ
    • The Kingdom of God belongs to us by blood
    • He put the DNA of Jesus in us through the blood
      • In order to allow this DNA to work in our lives, our souls must be in alignment with God
        • This just means our souls need to agree with God
          • This comes by having an ingrafted Word from the Spirit transplanted into the area of our lives where we are having trouble.
        • Our spirits are already in agreement with God
  • Jesus gave us the right and power to become Sons
    • Our minds must be renewed. We are not to conform to the world.
      • This comes through the Word of God
      • We are to appear as Jesus
        • The Word is the only thing that is strong enough to root out the parts of our soul that are not from God.
        • When the Word becomes a living revelation, it will change circumstances.
          • This comes through meditation on the Word until it becomes part of us
  • We are born into and working in a mystery
    • God is trying to reconcile our spirits and our souls together to make one man
    • This can only happen as our soul is renewed by the Word of God.
  • The Kingdom requires that we see, understand and walk in our inheritance
    • Our soul has to be enlightened – it needs revelation
  • We are always going to be in a process of change
  • Don’t touch anything that is contrary to God’s Word & Will
  • Let God make you into who you really are

Key Scriptures: 1 John 5:6-8, John 1:12, Luke 15:11-32, Romans 12:2, 3 John 2, Ephesians 1:3-4; 2:15, 1 Thessalonians 5:23