Recognizing Our True Identity – Episode 2

Understanding and living from your True Identity—or Jesus Identity—is the crucial foundation for Christian freedom and empowerment. This concept requires moving beyond the mere articulation of truth to its practical application in daily life. The core shift is transitioning from striving to earn God’s acceptance to living in agreement with who you already are in Christ, recognizing that everything necessary has been finished by Jesus.

This life-changing message of grace is freeing hearts and renewing minds all over the world.

1. The Foundation of Identity: Full Acceptance and Completion

Your identity in Christ is a settled reality based on God’s design and Jesus’s sacrifice, not your behavior.

Your Complete Status

When you receive Jesus, you receive a complete status, making you righteous, holy, and complete.

• You are Righteous and Holy: You are righteous because of the great exchange, where Jesus took your sin and its consequences (hell) and gave you His righteousness. He was made holy so you could be made holy.
• You are Complete in Him: Jesus’s finished work makes you complete, requiring no striving.
• You are Accepted: God’s love, favor, and blessing were never meant to be earned; they are gifts He has already given. You are already loved, accepted, and free because of grace.

Sin as Misalignment, Not Just Behavior

Your original design was never based on your behavior but on your trust and belief in who you were made after. Sin is defined not only as bad behavior but as living out of sync with who God created you to be. When you fall in your thinking away from your true design, you struggle, like someone who has amnesia about their own super strength.

2. Living in Sync: The Rhythm of Remembering and Responding

Living out of your true identity means your everyday life becomes a rhythm of remembering and responding. You are not performing to become; you are living out who you already are.

Overcoming the Amnesia

The devil’s greatest fear is for you to discover your true self, which is why he attacks your identity, just as he did with the first and the last Adam, and even Jesus in the wilderness. He whispers accusations like, “If you really saved, if you really righteous,” to attack the characteristics of your true design.

To counter this, you must engage in a constant rhythm of aligning your thoughts with truth:

1. Remember Your Identity: Remember who you are and what you are capable of doing.
2. Respond to Conflict: When you are tempted to behave poorly (e.g., getting ready to curse someone out or becoming angry), you must pause and declare, “That’s not me”. This commitment to the “not me” identity helps your behavior start lining up with who you are.
3. Take Your Identity Seriously: Respond based on who you really are. You are filled with the fruit of the Spirit, power, and anointing, and you should do everything you see Jesus do.

Confession and Mind Renewal

Your belief system begins with your mouth. To stay aligned, you should incorporate simple, powerful habits:

• Daily Declaration: Start your day by declaring: “Father, thank you that I’m in Christ. I’m righteous. I’m holy. I’m full of your spirit today. I live from that place”.
• Intimacy Over Effort: Practices like prayer and confession should be about intimacy and alignment, not performance or laborious efforts to qualify your need for control.

3. The Power of Identity: Authority, Peace, and Freedom

Being in sync with your true identity grants radical spiritual benefits that allow you to live a life of “sweatless victory.”

Authority and Boldness

Your identity is the source of your spiritual authority.

• Mirroring Jesus: You are the reflection of Jesus. When the world sees you, they should see your reflection in the mirror of Jesus.
• Confidence in Status: Knowing who you are gives you boldness, liberty, confidence, and assurance. The devil trembles when you start realizing who you are and what you can do.
• Supply House: You are not meant to walk around with an empty cup. When you realize you are the reflection of Jesus, you become a supply of what others need—supply of healing for the sick, joy for the sad, and deliverance for the traumatized.

Rest and Sweatless Victory

Living from your identity means you operate from rest, not performance.

• Rejecting Performance: We have been performing to become, but we are called to live out who we already are. You are simply letting Christ express Himself through you, not by your willpower.
• No Grind: You should not continue to carry yourself like a “low class design dude”. Instead, stand up with confidence, remembering who you are in the face of the devil and all his junk.