Identifying our TRUE IDENTITY

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Hey Friend,

Good to be back on this wonderful Wednesday! 

Not sure how the day started for you, but it was pretty rough for me talking to some product suppliers on the call. However it ended pretty well. Thanks be to God!

How about you? How did your day begin? Leave some comments to share your successes or failures.
I am really very proud of you for taking the time to go through this blog. You are a person who wants to GROW and BECOME BETTER each passing day. That's you! Thank you.

Yesterday we were discussing about GRATITUDE, in other words being a THANKFUL person. Where you able to thank the CREATOR for giving you the breath of LIFE, and also to the people who HELPED YOU in the times of your distress? If you missed it, no worries, TODAY YOU CAN reach out to them in some way.

Ok, today I want to go a little deeper. Yesterday we discussed about forming HABITS that will HELP us and not HURT us. You can read  Gratitude Changes Everything and get familiar with the idea of how HABITS are formed. Today we will get to the ROOT of the issue.

What do I mean by this? I mean we need to examine the ROOT before we accurately IDENTIFY  the reason for the BAD FRUIT. If the  fruit we have been bearing is not good then we need to CHECK the ROOT of the Issue. 

What are the ROOTS that can cause us to BEAR the wrong kind of FRUITS?

Here are a few examples - that can point out to our issues we face - the THINKING and the WORDS we REPEAT and REHEARSE often  -

  • "God does not Love me."
  • "People dont like me"
  • “I am not good enough.”
  • "I cannot overcome this habit."
  • “I don’t matter.”
  • "I will not get better, this is who I am."
  • “I am a failure.”
  • “I am useless.”
  • “I’ll never measure up.”
  • "I don't have skills to be useful."
  • "I will never succeed."
  • etc etc etc

    Now why do we repeat these statements? May be we have been repeatedly told to by PEOPLE who care about us or CIRCUMSTANCES in life caused us to BELIEVE these LIES and sadly we accepted this as our IDENTITY. When we BELIEVE something about ourselves which are not TRUE they get CONCRETIZED over time, our BRAIN, AUTO-PILOT's these THOUGHT PATTERNS and these will be acted out as our BEHAVIORS and ATTITUDES SUB-CONSCIOUSLY, which are BRAIN generated. 

    The Solution is to understand and believe what our TRUE IDENTITY is?
    Our TRUE IDENTITY is made known to us by GOD alone who created us. Begin to Intentionally CHANGE the way you THINK and SPEAK  for a ROOT LEVEL change and dont be satisfied for a surface level superficial change. Put some INTENTION into it.

    For you dear DISCIPLES who desire CHANGE. RENEW YOUR MINDS, REHEARSE THE WORD and not your failures or negative feelings about yourself, your situation or others. SEEK GOD daily in quietness and ask HIM to TRANSFORM you, get your MINDS RENEWED Daily. THINK LIKE CHRIST.

    God's plan for you is GOOD and not EVIL, PLANS to give you a HOPE and a FUTURE. Jeremiah 29:11 is a beautiful verse. You are created beautifully and wonderfully to fulfill GOD's eternal purpose and also to be a blessing to others.
    Even when things go wrong in our LIVES at times, remember knowing our TRUE IDENTITY can help us OVERCOME our challenges that are before us. 

    Remember, you are HIGHLY VALUED. You don't get your IDENTITY by your MISTAKES, FAILURES or by your 'royal' PEDIGREE or even your SUCCESSES.

    So HOW do we know our TRUE IDENTITY?     OUR TRUE IDENTITY can be KNOWN as REVEALED in GOD's WORD, and this is the WAY to IDENTIFY our TRUE IDENTITY.

    Truly we have HOPE to CHANGE and be TRANSFORMED     DAILY.

    Thanks for dropping by - ps feel free to share this blog with others who need it!

    Until we meet again - let there be Peace in the midst of your storms!

    (Scripture References: 2 Cor 5:17, Ephesians 1, Joshua 1:8, Psalm 1, Romans 12)


    Shalom!


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