Good morning brothers and sisters in Christ!

Romans 8:17 says,

  • And since we are His children, we are His heirs – heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ.

Because of this, the Scripture declares in 2 Corinthians 1:20,

  • For all the promises of God in Him are Yes, and in Him Amen, to the glory of God through us.

Because the Spirit of God raised Jesus Christ from the dead (Romans 8:11), that power will quicken or make alive our mortal bodies by His Spirit that dwells in us.  This power will bring us into a place to believe that as SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF GOD, we may lay hold of all the promises of God.

It’s not a small thing to be brought into fellowship with the Father through the Lord Jesus Christ.  The Spirit of God that dwells in us not only puts to death all other power, but will show us what a priviledge it is to serve Him and will bring us into a faith where we can claim all that we need.

The moment you accepted Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, you were made an heir of heaven.  By the Spirit, you are being changed into the image of the Son of God, and it’s in that image that we can definitely look to the Father and see that the things we ask for are done.

Family, we are being changed from glory to glory.  1 John 3:2 says,

  • Beloved, now are we the children of God; and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He is revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is.

This means that we will have the same Spirit of Jesus.  When people look at us, they will say, “Yes, it’s the same Spirit.”

If you have been born of God, you have the power of the Holy Spirit in you that will change you.  The power of the baptism of the Holy Spirit links heaven to earth, and God wants us all so filled with the Holy Spirit that while we live here on earth, it’s like we’re right up with God in heaven.  Jesus told us to pray this way in Matthew 6:9,

  • “Our Father in heaven…Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven…”

Also, that we will live days of heaven right here on the earth.

Let’s examine ourselves today and see where we stand, and if we’re standing on the truth God has given us, we’ll be amazed to see how God will transform our lives as His SONS AND DAUGHTERS.

Let’s have the same attitudes that the Apostle Paul had in Galatians 1:15-16.  It says,

  • But when it pleased God, Who separated me from my mother’s womb and called me through His grace to reveal His son in me, that I might preach Him among the Gentiles, I did not confer immediately with flesh and blood.

I want to encourage you today ~ that is the purpose of God ~ to raise you up into the place of sonship.  Don’t miss the purpose God has in His heart for you.  God wants to separate you unto Himself.  He says in 2 Corinthians 6:16-17,

  • As God has said, “I will dwell in them and walk among them.  I will be their God, and they shall be My people.  Therefore, come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord.  Do not touch what is unclean, and I will receive you.  I will be a Father to you, and you shall be My SONS AND DAUGHTERS” says the Lord Almighty.

God is a God of restoration.  His mercy is to a thousand generations.  The Scripture says in Romans 8:31-32,

  • What shall we say to these things?  If God is for us, who can be against us?  It doesn’t matter who is against us when God is for us.  Who shall lay anything to the charge of God’s elect?  

It’s not a good idea to touch God’s people!  The Lord says in Psalm 105:15, “Do not touch My anointed ones and do My prophets no harm.”

Finally in verses 38-39 of Romans chapter 8 Paul says,

  • For I am persuaded that neither death not life, nor angels nor principalaties, nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Beloved, you are in a wonderful place because God has called you and chosen you.  He wants you to know today that because you are His SONS AND DAUGHTERS, and joint heirs, you have a right to healing for your bodies and to be delivered from all the power of the enemy.  

Blessed to be His daughter,

Lisa Gordon

Assistant Pastor

Jesus City Church