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like Him, act like Him, and even heal and love like Him must be based on WHO He says you are, not what you do. It's not your job to try and make yourself good enough for God to love you. He loves you already! And in any way that you and I need to be made better or change, it's the job of the SAVIOR to save us—to walk with us, shepherding us to change. We just FOLLOW. Stop trying to FIT IN to the Body of Christ. You already BELONG! What's the difference? Trying to t in means you need to work to change so you look like a child of God. To belong means you are already a child of God. You are part of God's family because He made you to be like Him when you asked Him into your heart. You can't take credit for it, or ruin it when you mess up. God doesn't repay you for your good behavior or punish you for bad behavior. Jesus just keeps working with you and for you as you grow up into Him. Superkids, put your faith in verse 10, which says, "For we are God's masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago" (New Living Translation). Receive this as God's own words about you, and BELIEVE it's who you are. Say this: "I am a work of art, that the Creator and Master Artist is still creating. I belong to Him as His child and He has a great plan for me." He has your path planned out. Taking that path is how He is able to change your life on the outside so you begin to look more like Him every day. You are that picture of His love and power. We show Him off and He likes to show us off, pointing to us as His own children as He makes us into that masterpiece of His creation. We are Superkids living the life He planned for us before we were ever born! God's Work of Art, Commander Kellie like Him, act like Him, and even heal and love like Him must be based on WHO He B V O V : 3 1 Commander Kellie's Corner Kellie Copeland is responsible for Covenant Partner Relations at Kenneth Copeland Ministries and is the developer of the Superkid Academy curriculum. Through her ministry and as "Commander Kellie," she ful lls the mission of drawing people of all ages into a personal, growing and powerful relationship with Jesus Christ. Ordinary kids doing extraordinary things through the power of God's Word. That's the Superkid motto! Many years ago, when God dropped this vision in our hearts, we based our motto on the book of Ephesians. Back then, I thought Superkid Academy was just an idea for a children's story. But it was much more! It was a God plan to create a heart in His children where He could move, live and show His love and power. He wasn't seeing movies and books. He was seeing YOU! Ephesians 1:19-20, The Passion Translation, says: "I pray that you will continually experience the immeasurable greatness of God's power made available to you through faith. Then your lives will be an advertisement of this immense power as it works through you! This is the mighty powerthat was released when God raised Christ from the dead and exalted himto the place of highest honor and supreme authorityin the heavenly realm!" That's the reason we talked about "famous faith" last month. When you believed God's words and asked Jesus into your heart, He lled you with Himself. At that very moment, Jesus began re-creating you from the inside out to be as pure, holy and God- lled as He is. He sees you living as His people in the earth, doing all the wonderful works He came to do, walking in the same power that raised Him up from the dead. Think about that for a minute. You may be wondering, Why are we not experiencing that power when the Bible says we would CONTINUALLY experience it? I've heard some people explain away the lack of power by saying, "God doesn't do miracles anymore." Or, "You aren't pure and holy like Jesus, so you can't do what He did." Or, "You don't spend enough time praying, reading the Bible or going to church." These answers all depend on us doing something BIG and PERFECT—continually. But God's Word is very simple. It says, "You will continually experience the A Work of Art! creation. planned for us before we were ever born! Commander Kellie Kellie Copeland is responsible for Covenant Partner Relations at Kenneth Copeland Ministries and is the developer of the Superkid Academy curriculum. Through her ministry and as "Commander Kellie," she ful lls the mission of drawing people of all ® immeasurable greatness of God's power made available to you through faith." It is through faith (belief) that you receive His greatness in your life. You might say, "Commander, I do believe! And I read the Bible, go to church and pray. What else is there?" Verses 20-22 tell us that EVERYTHING is under Jesus' authority and rule. He is KING! Verse 23 says we are made full and complete by Christ and He lls everything with Himself! You don't have to do anything else to make that happen. You are already full of Jesus, His authority and His power! That's your identity, but do you really believe it? Faith comes when we hear His Word. Ephesians 2 shows us what might be standing in the way of our representing Jesus like we want to. When people were following the devil and full of sin, God chose to give us the life of Jesus so that we could choose to be His children. Nobody deserved it, but He made anyone who would ask Jesus into their heart to be one with Jesus. Verses 8-9 says: "For by grace you have been saved by faith. Nothing you did could ever earn this salvation, for it was the love gift from God that brought us to Christ!So no one will ever be able to boast, for salvation is never a reward for good works or human striving." It was God's grace (power) that saved us when we believed His message of salvation and love. We COULD NEVER earn it by doing good things like going to church, reading the Bible, praying or acting right. Those are all good things, but they don't buy you salvation, power or love. Love comes from the Father Himself. You can't brag about, or want to be repaid for what you do for Him. Your good works can't be what your faith is based on. Faith to be a child of God, to look

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