What voice are you listening to? We all have negative voices in our minds, voices that must be overcome for us to walk in the fullness of all that God has already given us. How can we replace the negative voices some of us have heard all our lives with God's truth and live from that truth?
That's what the activation is all about today. Activation. You may be thinking, I don't feel like all the spiritual blessings of heaven are mine. Satan works hard to make you feel that way. We take hold of God's promises by putting them in our hearts and our minds. We renew our minds with God's Word, and God changes us from the inside out by changing the way we think.
Romans 12:2 says, "Let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think." The NIV translates this as, "Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind." In other words, don't listen to the voices of this world.
Let God's voice—His Word—be your identity and open your destiny. The specific things God has prepared for you to do with your life are waiting on the other side of your true identity.
Simon Crow, a Thai missionary, church planter, and author of the Growchurch.net blog, posted this activation on his blog.
I've done something similar in the past, and I found this to be quite powerful. Here's what he said:
"In my very first week of Bible college, the students were given an assignment to look in the mirror every morning for three weeks, eyeball to eyeball, and declare, ‘I am the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus.’ Honestly, that first morning, I've never felt so awkward and foolish. The second morning, while talking to myself in the mirror, I felt like such a liar, trying to convince myself of something I didn't really think was true.
But faith comes by hearing. Two weeks into this thing, and you should have heard me—I was speaking with boldness and conviction. I believed it. I started walking and talking differently. I was confident. I began to see myself the way God saw me. He changed my whole identity and showed me who I was in Christ."
What changed? I had brought my thoughts and my words into alignment with God's Word. That truth translated into my life.
I strongly urge you to try this same exercise every morning for the next three weeks, and you'll be amazed at how God speaks. I promise you.
Do this: Look at yourself in the mirror every morning for three weeks and declare, "I am the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus." (This is from 2 Corinthians 5:20.) Speak that identity to yourself every day for three weeks—or as long as it takes for you to feel the reality of the promise God has already given you.
This will change your life. It's changed mine.