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Fuel Your Life! Living from Your Inheritance in Christ Jesus: Why You Already Have Everything In Christ With Jayme Elizabeth · She Speaks Life - Christian Women, Strengthen Your Faith, Bible Study, Grow Spiritually In Christ

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  Hey there, welcome back to She Speaks Live podcast.
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  I am so excited you are here listening to the solo episode
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  that I'm going to be teaching us on.
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  That's going to shift the way we see our walk with God, not as
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  something that we're striving to achieve, but something that we
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  are already living from in Christ.
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  Because there's so many believers that are asking God
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  for really what he has already placed in them when scripture
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  reveals that in Christ, we are already fully supplied.
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  So today I want to anchor us in a powerful truth from Colossians
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  chapter 2. In the previous solo episode, I
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  walked us through chapter one. This is chapter 2.
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  And I really believe if you hear this, it will begin to reframe
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  how you approach your faith, your calling, and and your daily
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  life. So let's start out with
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  Colossians 2 verses 9 through 10.
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  It says for in Christ all the fullness of the deity lives in
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  bodily form, and in Christ you have been brought to fullness.
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  He is the head over every power and authority.
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  Another translation puts it this way.
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  You have everything when you have Christ, and you are filled
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  with God through your union with Christ.
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  We see this powerful truth that when we have Christ we have
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  everything. Through our union with Christ we
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  are filled with God. That means there is never a
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  moment when we are lacking or coming up empty because all
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  fullness is found in Christ. So no matter what we face, we do
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  not have to be overwhelmed because in Him we already
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  possessed everything needed to overcome every opposition.
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  Victory is not something. I know you've heard this, but
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  victory is not something we are trying to earn.
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  It already belongs to us in Christ.
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  So let's look at the word fullness.
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  You know me, I love to break down some of these Greek, some
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  of these words into Greek. And this fullness word in Greek
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  is pleuroma. It means completeness, totality,
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  nothing lacking the sum of everything needed.
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  So when Scripture says the fullness of God dwells in
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  Christ, it's saying everything God is is fully in Jesus.
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  And then Paul makes an even more shocking statement.
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  He says you have been brought into that fullness.
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  So let's sit with this. Everything God designed,
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  dreamed, and purpose for His children, he placed in Christ.
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  Then, in a divine exchange of grace, he placed Christ in US,
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  and us in Christ. That means your life is not
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  something God is trying to patch together.
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  You're not a project in progress that God is still trying to
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  complete. No, you are someone who has been
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  placed inside fullness. The phrase in Christ in the
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  Greek is in Christo and it speaks of union, location,
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  identity, shared life. This means your life is not
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  separate from Christ, it is inside Christ.
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  So when God looks at you, he's not looking at insufficiency,
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  He's looking at your position in his Son.
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  And then Paul continues and says he, Jesus, is the head over
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  every power and authority. That word authority in Greek is
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  exucia, meaning ruling power, delegated control, spiritual
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  force, governing influence. So what Paul's saying is this,
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  Jesus is not only our Savior, but He is ruler over every
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  competing power. So what does the world try to
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  compete? It tries to compete with us by
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  the enemy, bringing fear, by bringing anxiety, depression,
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  confusion, lack, sickness, oppression.
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  These are all attacks by the enemy, but they have no
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  authority whatsoever in our life.
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  They are under His authority, which means they are under our
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  position in Him. So let's make this personal.
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  So there have been moments in my own life where I felt like I was
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  behind, behind in my calling, behind in, in clarity.
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  I just felt like I was behind, like I wasn't doing enough.
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  And I'm sure you've got your own thing.
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  Maybe you can relate to that too.
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  You know, you feel like you're praying, but it feels like
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  you're still lacking something to finally step into what God is
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  calling you to or what God has for you.
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  And I love how Colossians 2 is completely correcting that
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  mindset. It it's not saying, oh, you will
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  have everything someday when you grow enough.
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  No, it is saying in Christ you already have everything you need
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  to walk out God's will. That means the issue is not the
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  supply, it's not the source. The issue is awareness.
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  It's recognizing it and then it's receiving everything that
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  you have already inherited. Your heritage, everything that
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  you have inherited in Christ is yours.
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  You just need to acknowledge it and be aware and walk in it.
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  So I believe that most believers think they have a faith problem,
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  but often what really is at play is an identity problem.
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  Because when you don't know who you are in Christ, faith feels
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  like striving, prayer feels like you're begging, obedience feels
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  like pressure. But when you know who you are in
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  Christ and what you've already inherited by the death and
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  resurrection of Jesus on the cross and and what he did for
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  us. But when you know who you are in
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  Christ, faith becomes response, prayer becomes communion,
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  obedience becomes overflow. You stop trying to get God to to
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  move for you and you start living from the reality that he
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  already lives in you. So you do your part.
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  You be the doer, not just the hearer of the word, and act out
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  in obedience to what he is calling you to.
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  So I want to take you to the Galatians 220.
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  It says it is no longer I who live, but Christ that lives in
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  me. That means the Christian, not
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  life, is not this self improvement like I'm trying to
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  get better on my own. No, it's not me trying to become
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  strong enough for God. It's learning to yield to the
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  strength of the one that is already in me.
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  So let's go to Colossians 26 through seven.
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  It says just as you received Christ Jesus, Jesus says Lord,
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  continue to live your lives in him, rooted and built up in him.
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  That word rooted paints a picture of the stability.
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  Roots don't panic during storms. They don't relocate when weather
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  changes. They draw life constantly from
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  what they are planted in. So the question is not how do I
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  get more of God? The question is, am I staying
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  rooted in what I already have in Him?
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  Because nourishment is not coming from striving, it's
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  coming from that abiding. And how do we abide?
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  It's that fellowship. It's the communion with Him.
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  It's His word and praise and worship.
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  That is all. How we can get our roots to get
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  down deep and wide at. So as believers, we are not
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  called to be dominated by what is seen.
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  We are called to live from what is unseen, already finished.
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  Faith is not denial of reality. It's agreement with with God.
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  So when God says you are complete in Christ, you lack
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  nothing. You have been filled in him and
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  faith says I will live like that is true even before I see a
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  manifest in fact, in Romans it says call those things which are
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  not as though they were. That is faith.
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  That is confession. This is This is why confession
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  matters, not as this performance or showy thing, but it is coming
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  into alignment. So you begin to speak.
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  I am in Christ, I am complete in Him, I am supplied in Him.
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  Christ lives through me. You are not trying to convince
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  God, you are reminding your soul of the truth.
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  So let's jump to Colossians 29 again.
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  It says in Christ all the fullness of deity lives in
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  bodily form. Fullness again is pleuroma,
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  meaning nothing partial, nothing lacking, nothing reduced.
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  Jesus is not a representation of God, He is full revelation of
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  God. And then Paul says you have been
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  filled in him. The word filled comes from
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  pleuro, meaning to make complete, to fully supply, to
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  bring the fullness. So the same fullness that lives
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  in Christ is the fullness that now supplies your life.
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  So this absolutely changes everything.
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  You are not trying to become victorious.
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  You are learning to live from victory.
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  You are not fighting for identity, you are fighting from
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  your identity in Christ. You are not asking God to make
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  you enough. You are discovering that you are
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  already complete in Him. So if fullness is already given,
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  what blocks us? Not God's withholding, but often
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  distraction, unbelief, identity, confusion, dependence on self,
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  effort. Because anything that pulls your
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  attention away from Christ will weaken your awareness of what
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  you already carry. That's why Paul warns against
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  philosophies and human reasoning that diminish Christ in this
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  chapter to of Colossians, because anything that reduces
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  Jesus in your view will reduce faith and confidence in your
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  life with him. So let's jump to Philippians 413
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  and it says I can do all things through Christ who strengthens
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  me. That strength is not just this
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  effort power, it is relational strength.
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  The more you know Him, the more you rely on Him.
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  Spiritual strength is not produced by pressure, it's
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  produced by proximity, by Him. By being in Christ, you're
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  drawing on His strength. He is the source of the
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  strength. So let's jump into Hebrews 416.
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  It says, let us come boldly to the throne of grace.
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  This is a reminder that you are not approaching God as some
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  stranger. You are coming as a child who
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  belongs. Access is not this occasional
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  thing. It is constant.
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  You're always welcome in his presence.
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  You're always invited. It's access that produces that
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  stability in our soul, in our lives.
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  So I want to take us before we close to Isaiah 4817.
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  It says I am the Lord your God, who teaches you to prop, who
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  leads you in the way you should go.
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  You know, God has a specific plan for each of our lives and
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  only He can lead us into that plan.
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  We cannot depend on others to define our purpose or author our
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  future. God alone is the author of his
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  plan for us. When scripture says he teaches
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  us to profit, it's not merely Speaking of finances.
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  Actually, in the Hebrew the word for profit carries the meaning
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  of advancing, ascending, excelling, gaining ground, and
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  rising above circumstances. This reveals God's heart for His
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  children. He never attended for us to
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  remain where we have been. There's always more growth, more
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  maturity, more assignments with Him, more advancement, more
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  increase, always more with Him. And as believers, we should live
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  with an expectation of this continual increase in our walk
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  with God. Always moving forward, always
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  laying hold of more. God said in Joshua 1/3 Every
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  place the sole of your foot shall tread upon that have I
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  given unto you another words. He is Speaking of progress,
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  expansion, development, and advancement.
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  In the plan of God. We are never meant to stagnate
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  or run out. His purpose for our lives is
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  full, rich, and overflowing. One of the primary ways we move
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  forward in that plan is through faith.
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  Faith is how we follow Him into greater things.
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  Our faith should always be growing, Paul said in Second
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  Thessalonians 1/3. He says your faith grows
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  exceedingly. If our faith is not growing,
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  then our spiritual life is not developing.
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  But when our spiritual life is flourishing, our faith will
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  increase because we cannot move without God.
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  Apart from faith. Faith is really what pleases
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  God. We can have lives filled with
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  good works and the right behavior.
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  And while those things matter, it is faith that truly pleases
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  him. God is really He's not difficult
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  to please. He asks for a faith.
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  Even more amazing is that he supplies the faith we need.
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  He gives it to us. We receive it, we make it our
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  own. We live in it, we abide in it,
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  we live by it, we walk in faith. And then and he is pleased and
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  rewards us. I mean, it's truly a win win.
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  So if we are going to profit, advance, rise higher in the
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  things of God, our faith must continue to grow.
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  God will teach us to advance, but that advancement will always
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  be led by faith. So let's personalize the
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  Scripture verse. So let's go back to the
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  Scripture verse of Colossians 2, nine through 10.
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  And it says, for in Christ there is all of God and a human body.
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  So you have everything when you have Christ, and you are filled
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  with God through your union with Christ.
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  He is the highest ruler with authority over every power.
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  So let's personalize this. This is all coming out of my
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  Serenity journal where you can go in there.
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  You can personalize scripture verses.
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  You can put your name inside a verse.
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  You can put I, my or me. You could put your spouse's
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  name. You can put your kids name in
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  there. It's just to take heed the truth
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  and make it personal to you. So verse 9 it says for in Christ
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  there is all of God and a human body.
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  So instead of you you say, so I have everything when I have
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  Christ and I am filled with God through my union with Christ.
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  He is the highest ruler with authority over every other
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  power. So let's go over everything that
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  I have just shared with you today.
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  In Christ, you are not lacking. In Christ, you are not waiting
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  to become complete. In Christ, you are not
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  undersupplied. In Christ you are fully filled.
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  In Christ, you are fully positioned.
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  In Christ, you are fully united in Him.
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  The question is not whether God has given it.
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  The question is whether you are living aware of it, recognizing
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  it, and receiving it as yours because it is yours.
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  It's your inheritance. It's what He has freely given to
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  you. So today I want you to declare
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  this of your life. So let's let's just say this out
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  loud together. I am in Christ.
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  I am complete in Him. I lack nothing that He has not
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  already supplied. Christ lives in me and I will
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  live from fullness, not emptiness.
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  So if this has encouraged you, let me know.
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  I always love hearing feedback. And don't forget to share this
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  episode for someone to bless. And so until next time, remember
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  always that God's best is yours. Hey there, thank you for
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  we go through the contentment series straight from my journal,
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