Who Are You, Really? by Robert Ricciardelli

By Robert Ricciardelli

Who Are You, Really?
By Robert Ricciardelli
www.vision2advance.com

Shakespeare once said, and it has been said thousands of times since, "To be or not to be, that is the question." The reality is, the body of Christ can be asked the very same question. Are we living by who we really are as Kingdom dwellers, or are we living by who we think we are or who they say we are? Jesus said that it is impossible to see the Kingdom of God unless one is born again. The problem for much of the church, for the most part, is that this has been the starting and stopping point of our faith. Many have the idea of just taking a place as "Saved" people who will try and witness to get other "Saved" people is the sole reason for living. Praise God we are saved, but that is the beginning to finding our true calling as kings and priests of our Almighty God and Father.

There are many that miss the main event of progressing in the Kingdom in relationship with our Lord, and being conformed to His image. As we live and move and have our being in Him, we begin to have a worldview in alignment with the way He sees the world. Father wants us to mature into the authority He has given us. He will only release power through us to the measure of our relationship with Him and the obedience level in which we live according to His Word. What earthly father would give a child a gun and likewise our heavenly Father will not give us more than we can be responsible to steward in His Kingdom.

Being born again is the entrance into seeing the kingdom, and we have this life and life eternal to live as co-laborers with the Holy Spirit as ambassadors to a NOW kingdom. A fallen world and the hosts of hell want to deceive us into waiting for Jesus to come and rescue us out of this present life, when He already has rescued us. Much of His church has not realized this and therefore are not tapping into His resources and transformational power. When Jesus said, "It is finished", He really meant it. From that day forward, those who chose Him, would received His Spirit and could now walk in royalty as part of His Kingdom which is at hand.

It grieves me so much to see people paralyzed by fear, rejection and many other hurts that have fallen upon them either by their choices or the choices of others. They may have the revelation of who Jesus is, but have not got the revelation of who they are through Him. In other words, they do not see themselves the way the Father, Son and Holy Spirit do. They live daily in their prison of past failures, injuries, and lies.

We can never be the ambassadors that Christ desires to build His Kingdom with unless we see ourselves the way He does. When we do, we then will begin to make the shift from living for ourselves to truly living for Him and His purposes. When that begins to happen, then fear and past hurts and limitations fall away. As we continue to be set free in Christ, His life now is lived through us and we can walk effectively in our Kingdom authority.

As we live by our true born again nature and the Word of God, Father can then weave His desires through us and manipulate our world to train and prepare us for conformity to the likeness of His Son. In Christ's image we then become agents of transformation wherever we go. We will first see transformation being processed in us, then through our families and faith communities, and finally transformation of the marketplace and the nations we are sent to.

We must understand that there is opposition to our Kingdom mission and one of the biggest obstacles to living in the Kingdom is self. We must die to self and battle anything else that comes against the call of God upon us. We must face the enemy and not run from him. Whatever enemy that shows up, we must understand that we have all the resources we need to overcome them. We are co-rulers of the greatest kingdom that will ever be. Rulers never run, and runners never rule.

Do not run from your responsibilities as a child of God. Do not run from obedience, do not run from those things you know you should be doing. Face them in the faith of knowing who you are and why you were created, principally to rule with Him forever. We are in training to reign with Him. We must begin to be faithful in the little things because He has so much more for us. We will only receive the responsibility to handle the part of the Kingdom that the Lord has seen us faithful to move on to.

Below are some of the many reminders of who we are. Do not engage in your day or even get out of bed until you know who you are. It does not matter what you think or anyone else thinks about you unless that is what you live by. What matters is what your Father thinks of you and for you to live by what He thinks, while ignoring all other voices including your own in Jesus name. Here are the words you want to hear and confess to remind you throughout the day of who you are. To be or not to be, that is the question.

Father let us not question who you say we are anymore, may we be every moment who you have purposed us to be in your kingdom for your glory in Jesus name.

WHO AM I?

I am the salt of the earth (Matt. 5:13)

I am the light of the world (Matt 5:14)

I am a child of God (John 1:12)

I am part of the true vine, a channel of Christ's life (John 15:1,5)

I am Christ's friend (John 15:15)

I am chosen and appointed by Christ to bear His fruit (John 15:16)

I am a slave of righteousness (Rom. 6:18)

I am enslaved to God (Rom. 6:22)

I am a son of God; God is spiritually my father (Rom. 8:14, 15; Gal. 3:26; 4:6)

I am a joint heir with Christ, sharing His inheritance with Him (Rom. 8:17)

I am a temple – a dwelling place – of God. His Spirit and His life dwell in me (1 Cor. 3:16; 6:19)

I am united to the Lord and am one spirit with Him (1 Cor. 6:17)

I am a member of Christ's Body (1 Cor. 12:27; Eph. 5:30)

I am a new creation (2 Cor. 5:17)

I am reconciled to God and am a minister of reconciliation (2 Cor. 5:18, 19)

I am a son of God and one in Christ (Gal. 3:26,28)

I am an heir of God since I am a son of God (Gal. 4:6,7)

I am a saint (Eph. 1:1; 1 Cor. 1:2; Phil. 1:1; Col. 1:2)

I am God's workmanship – His handiwork – born anew in Christ to do His work (Eph. 2:10)

I am a fellow citizen with the rest of God's family (Eph. 2:19)

I am a prisoner of Christ (Eph. 3:1; 4:1)

I am righteous and holy (Eph 4:24)

I am a citizen of Heaven, seated in Heaven right now (Phil. 3:20; Eph. 2:6)

I am hidden with Christ in God (Col. 3:3)

I am an expression of the life of Christ because He is my life (Col. 3:4)

I am chosen of God, holy and dearly loved (Col. 3:12; 1 Thess. 1:4)

I am a son of light and not of darkness (1 Thess. 5:5)

I am a holy partaker of a heavenly calling (Heb. 3:1)

I am a partaker of Christ; I share in His life (Heb. 3:14)

I am one of God's living stones, being built up in Christ as a spiritual house (1 Pet. 2:5)

I am a member of a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God's own possession (1 Pet. 2:9, 10)

I am an alien and stranger to this world in which I temporarily live (1 Pet. 2:11)

I am an enemy of the devil (1 Pet. 5:8)

I am a child of God and I will resemble Christ when He returns (1 John 3:1, 2)

I am born of God, and the evil one – the devil – cannot touch me (1 John 5:18)

I am not the great "I AM" (Exod. 3:14; John 8:24, 28, 58), but by the grace of God, I am what I am (1 Cor. 15:10)

I am Redeemed (Rev 5:9)

I am bought with a price (1 Cor 6:20)

I am Blood bought (1 Pet 1:19, Rev 5:9)

I am valuable to God (Mt 10:31)

I am one in whom God has an inheritance (Eph 1:18)

I am reconciled to God (2 Cor 5:18)

I am made clean (Jn 13:10)

I am saved by the Gospel (1 Cor 15:2)

I am born again of incorruptible seed (1 Peter 1:23)

I am a new creation (2 Cor 5:17)

I am of God (1 Jn 4:4)

I am Christ's possession (1 Cor 3:23)

I am in Christ Jesus (1 Corinthians 1:30)

I am complete in Him (Col 2:10)

I am free from the control of man (1 Cor 9:19)

I am free from sin (Romans 6:18,22)

I am free from the law of sin and death (Romans 8:2)

I am free from the curse of the law (Galatians 3:13)

I am free indeed (John 8:32-36)

I am called according to His purpose (Rom 8:30)

I am called into the fellowship of His Son (1 Cor 1:9)

I am called to peace (1 Cor 7:15)

I am called to liberty (Gal 5:13)

I am called to His eternal glory (1 Peter 5:10)

I am God's field (1 Cor 3:9)

I am God's building (1 Cor 3:9)

I am one in whom the word of God abides (1 John 2:14)

I am an epistle of Christ, written not with ink but by the Spirit of the living God (2 Corinthians 3:3)

I am a branch connected into the Vine Jesus Christ and His life flows through me (John 15:5)

I am the Friend of God (Jn 15:15)

I am a servant of God (1 Cor 9:19)

I am a part of the Body of Christ (1 Cor 12:27)

I am one of the saints in Christ Jesus. (Romans 1:6, Galatians 3:28)

I am a fellow citizen with all the saints in the Kingdom of God (Eph 2:19)

I am a stranger to this world, a pilgrim just passing through (Heb 11:13)

I am the temple of the Lord and the Holy Spirit dwells within me (1 Cor 3:16, 6:19, 2 Cor 6:16, John 14:7)

I am a witness (1 Thess 2:10)

I am bold (2 Cor 11:21)

I am the Bride of Jesus Christ (Rev 21:2-10)

I am jealous for the saints with a godly jealousy. (2 Corinthians 11:2)

I am a minister of the Gospel of Christ (2 Cor 11:23, Romans 1:16)

I am part of a chosen generation (1 Peter 2:9)

I am a member of a royal priesthood (1 Peter 2:9)

I am a citizen of a holy nation (1 Peter 2:9)

I am one of His own special people (1 Peter 2:9)

I am Abraham's seed (Galatians 3:29)

I am an heir according to the promises made to Abraham. (Galatians 3:29)

I am an heir of God a joint heir with Jesus Christ (Gal 4:7)

I am member of the household of God (Eph 2:19)

I am a child of the most high God (Rom 8:16, Gal 3:26, Gal 4:7)

I am a child of light (Ephesians 5:8, 1 Thess 5:8)

I am a child of the day (1 Thess 5:8)

I am a proclaimer of the praises of Him who called me out of darkness into His marvelous light (1 Peter 2:9)

I am light in the Lord. (Eph 5:8)

I am the light of the world (Matt 5:14)

I am the salt of the earth (Matt 5:13)

I am led by the Spirit of God (Gal 5:18)

I am chosen (1 Cor 1:27,28, James 2:5)

I am a disciple (John 8:31)

I am a priest (1 Peter 2:9, Rev 1:6)

I am a king (Rev 1:6)

I am an ambassador for Christ (1 Cor 5:20)

I am an intercessor who stands in the gap (Ezek 22:30)

I am a watchman on the wall (Ezek 3:17)

I am seated in heavenly places in Christ Jesus (Eph 2:6)

I am blessed in the city and in the country (Deut 28:3)

I am a Father (or Mother) of blessed children (Deut 28:4)

I am blessed in all I lay my hands to (Deut 28:4-5,8)

I am blessed when I come in and when I go out (Deut 28:6)

I am invincible before my enemies (Deut 28:7)

I am the head and not the tail (Deut 28:13)

I am above and not beneath (Deut 28:13)

I am one who has been freely given all things through Christ (Rom 8:32, 1 Cor 3:21)

I am rich in Him (Romans 8:32, Rev 2:9)

I am one who loves (Gal 5:22, 1 John 4:16)

I am one who has joy (Gal 5:22, John 15:11)

I am one who has peace (Gal 5:22, John 14:27)

I am one who has patience (Gal 5:22)

I am one who has kindness (Gal 5:22)

I am one who has goodness (Gal 5:22)

I am one who has faith (Gal 5:22)

I am one who has gentleness (Gal 5:23)

I am one who has self-control (Gal 5:23)

I am one who has all the fruit of the Spirit (Gal 5:22,23)

I am one who has overcome the wicked one (1 John 2:14)

I am one who has overcome the world (1 John 4:4, 5:4)

I am strong in the Lord (1 John 2:14)

I am endued with power from on high (Luke 24:49)

I am one who can do all things through Christ who strengthens me (Phil 4:13)

I am one who God always leads in triumph in Christ (2 Cor 2:14)

I am one who God gives the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ (1 Cor 15:57)

I am one who has within him the One who is greater than he that is in the world. (1 Jn 4:4)

I am one who treads upon the lion, the cobra, and the serpent (Ps 91:13)

I am one who runs through a troop and leaps over a wall (Ps 18:29)

I am a soldier of Christ (2 Tim 2:3-4)

I am more than a conqueror (Rom 8:37)

I am fully armed with weapons that are mighty through God (2 Cor 10:5)

I am able to pull down strongholds (2 Cor 10:5)

I am able to cast down imaginations and every high lofty thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God (2 Cor 10:5)

I am able to bring into captivity every thought (2 Cor 10:5)

I am one who has the mind of Christ (1 Cor 2:16)

I am not my own (1 Cor 6:19)

I am not alone (John 8:16, 16:32)

I am not of this world (John 15:9)

I am not under the law (Gal 5:18)

I am not a slave (Gal 4:7)

I am not inferior (Job 13:2)

I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ (Rom 1:16)

So I am not ashamed of who I am (2 Tim 1:12)