Authentic Identity

     What I have for you is not too good for you. It is not something where you say, “This is too good for me, the Lord would not do all of this for me.” Even in My speaking it forth and in your believing that it can be your identity you say, “This is too much for me, I do not deserve it.” But My child, I say to you I am no respecter of persons, I have chosen you, I have made you, I have worked with you to bring you to this point, and it pleases me greatly to bestow My identity, My giftings, My call upon you.

     Have you not wondered why you have been groans and sighs as My desires come forth from your Spirit. How your heart longs. My love, I tell you even this day, I have brought you through a place of emptiness to longings birthed from My Spirit coming forth and overtaking your heart. The truth echoes in your heart, “There is more, come on along with Me.”

     You have been afraid of the more, but I tell you this is only a false covering and not the identity of those called by my name. Whether I enlarge your influence and pour you out to those at home or abroad ready your heart for new adventure with Me. For are not the cattle on a thousand hills belong to Me. You are tender hearted to understand and to be sensitive to My unctions that you will speak life even in those in the path to go to each place I send you. You work for Me so you go where I send you and I will make provision and protection for you to bring you in the way that I desire you to walk to reach those I desire you to pour out on. And when I have finished with you I will bring you to Me.

     There is not fear in My commission. I say again, there is no fear in My commission. But here is a confident trusting that all is well. That God sees every one of my steps and I will bring you to each one victoriously, saith the Lord. Oh I delight to tell you, I delight to reveal, because the longing and the sighing has been percolating within you for years. I have been birthing and developing this in you. Did I not say in My word, “I will give you the desires of your heart.” These refined longings point to My desire for your life – to Your identity in Me. You could not see what I have called you to and created you to be because you thought you did not deserve it.

     How delighted, how delighted I am in you, My love. This is not too high of a place, and you have wondered, “Why has it been so hard, why can’t I just have a life like others and enjoy myself. Why do the lives of others seem so easy?” Because for a little while, I have needed to crush you to make you greater. I have needed to crush you to make you understand and taste what others  have gone through so that you can speak knowledgeably about what they have tasted – the bitterness and gall and that you can come back from that and declare, “Thus saith the Lord, this is a far greater place to be in the shadow of the Almighty than in the sun scorched land of the enemy. What promises relief and satisfaction always ends in destruction and despair – that is the lie of the enemy, that is the façade and mirage of the temptation, but what God gives is greater. What He gives is sustaining, what He gives is life giving not only to us but to all those around us. God operates in blessings, the enemy operates in cursing.”

     I tell you I want you to be a blessing to all. Yes, I will show you My way but know that your time of crushing is coming to an end. Because at times you’ve even said, “I don’t know how long I can take this.” Even at times you seem to come to the end of yourself when you hear others telling stories and boasting of their worldly exploits and adventures. You long and in your heart you cry out, “Why not me?” Because what I give you is authentic. My love, the depths of despair of these you do not know. Do not judge by the identities they portray but at the right time, at the appointed season, reveal to them the place I can bring them. Reveal the place I desire them to traverse with Me. For will I not even give you words of life to speak to them when they have come to the end of themselves.

      What I give you will change the nations. What I give you will change each person I send you to. You will speak life to others as I prompt, You will bless as I give you means, and you will speak as I give you utterance. Even the shadow of your presence I will anoint. I say again, even the shadow of your presence I will anoint that lives will be changes, that conviction will be brought, that blind eyes will be opened that all that desire Me will see, all that do not yet know Me will know Me. I will orchestrate each meeting. I will orchestrate each relationship that is formed  so that you can pour out and not only that that you can be enriched, My love.

Acts 5:12-16

“The apostles performed many signs and wonders among the people. And all the believers used to meet together in Solomon’s Colonnade. No one else dared join them, even though they were highly regarded by the people. Nevertheless, more and more men and women believed in the Lord and were added to their number. As a result, people brought the sick into the streets and laid them on beds and mats so that at least Peter’s shadow might fall on some of them as he passed by. Crowds gathered also from the towns around Jerusalem, bringing their sick and those tormented by impure spirits, and all of them were healed.”

Acts 10:34-35

“Then Peter began to speak: “I now realize how true it is that God does not show favoritism but accepts from every nation the one who fears him and does what is right.”

I John 4:18

“There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.”

Worship Song: Eye of the Storm by Ryan Stevenson

My Identity in Jesus Christ

Special thanks to MercyMe.org for the resource “My Identity in Jesus Christ”
This listing of scriptures and descriptions can help us understand the rich, vast, and authentic identity of believers.