Set Your Faith Free
by Kenneth Copeland
Do you know what the devil dreads?
He dreads the day we, as believers, find out who we really are and what we really have in Christ Jesus.
When we get that revelation, we become hell’s greatest nightmare. We stop seeing ourselves as just “old sinners saved by grace” and realize we’re “more than conquerors through him that loved us” (Romans 8:37). We get a 100% smile on our faces that nothing can get rid of, we stop putting up with defeat, and start operating in world-overcoming faith in God.
Why?
Because understanding our identity in Christ liberates us from the devil’s lie that we’re unworthy to walk in God’s power and BLESSINGS. It releases us from condemnation and sets us free to believe for and receive everything God’s WORD says is ours.
Sadly, many dear, sweet Christians have yet to experience such freedom. Oh, they’ve seen in the Bible the rich inheritance God has provided for us, as His children, and in prayer they’ve asked for His BLESSINGS. They’ve even endeavored to believe they receive when they pray, as Jesus said in Mark 11:24. But they just don’t seem to receive.
They find their faith hindered by a sense of spiritual inferiority. They struggle to believe, not because they doubt God’s ability to give them what they ask, but because they’re not confident they qualify to receive it.
We all know what that’s like because every one of us has been there. You may even be there right now. But you don’t have to stay there.
You can leave the lies of the devil behind!
You can take the scriptural truths about your born-again identity and meditate on them until they dominate your thinking. By renewing your mind, and keeping it renewed to the reality of who you are and what you have in Christ, you can break through every hindrance to believing and set your faith free. Let’s look at three of those hindrances to your faith.
Hindrance No. 1: A Lack of Understanding of the New Creation
“Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ.” 2 Corinthians 5:17-18
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