SJF - Daily Worship, Spirit and Word - Mar. 26, 2024

POV - My old nature was crucified with Christ. My new nature has been given to me by God. I am a partaker of His divine nature.

“For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection, knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin. For he who has died has been freed from sin. Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him, knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no longer has dominion over Him. For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God. Likewise you also, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.” (Romans 6:5–11, NKJV)

We are wearing the crown, clothes and shoes of Christ Jesus. We are filled with the same Divine Holy Spirit. We are filled with love, light and life. We have received the privilege to act and live as children of God because we have received the Spirit of Adoption. Holy Spirit is called the Spirit of Adoption because receiving Holy Spirit is the proof that we are God’s sons and daughters. We reckon, which means, when we do the math, it all adds up to even, that we are dead to sin and alive to God. Renew your mind to this truth. Because Christ Jesus died on the cross and I believe, the resurrected Christ lives in me and has raised me from the dead to live and exhibit the very life and nature of God Himself. We are no longer failures or sinners. We are victors. Overcomers. We can walk and live by faith. We can stay full of hope and love. Believe this and respond to things that are not hope and love with faith in God.