Victory Life KY

Father's Day 2021

Episode Summary

God only sees us in our new creation, the old one is gone. He sees us from an eternity perspective.

Episode Notes

• Im sure you’ve heard or even said the phrase, “You’re acting just like your father”

• Ephesians 5:1,AMP- Become imitators of God, copy Him and follow His example, as well-beloved children imitate their father.

• Jesus said, if you’ve seen me you’ve seen the Father.
• It’s the Father in Me that’s doing the work.
• The things I do, you can do also.

• Jesus’ prayer in John 17, Father, that they all may be one, as You, are in Me, and I in You; that they may be one in Us, that the world may believe that You sent Me.

• 2 Corinthians 5:17,NKJV- If anyone is IN CHRIST, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.

• Christ isn’t Jesus’ last name, In Christ means in the anointed One and His anointing. Born into a new world, a new way of living.

• This is why Paul told us, “The life I now live, I live by faith.” In other words, I’m living with an divine expectation, a conviction that everything God’s word says I am, I can have, I can do is a reality in my life.

• A revelation we’ve got to be more open to is the fact that God only sees us in our new creation, the old one is gone. He sees us from an eternity perspective.

• This is why Ephesians teaches us to pray, Father, enlighten our soul so we can comprehend what you’ve already done for us.

• Our challenge is, growing in our faith to the place where our soul no longer relies on this physical realm to confirm spiritual realities.

• Understand, born again doesn’t just mean access to Heaven someday, it means citizen of Heaven, heir to the Kingdom, appointed ambassador of our King, assigned here to establish His Kingdom.

• This is why Paul tells us in 1 Corinthians 11, Imitate me the same way I imitate Christ. 

• Hebrews 6:12,NKJV-  So that you do not become sluggish, imitate those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.

• When Jesus told us to follow Him, or imitate Him, He meant watch how I do it, then do it.

• Here’s the thing, imitating Him means we have to stop living as if humanity is all there is. Because at the end of the day, as long as we’re comfortable living without more of God, we will.

• 1 John 4, As we take up permanent residence in God, we live in Him and God lives in us, our standing in the world is identical with Christ’s.

• Our father wants us to succeed at being His body in the earth. He wants us acting just like Him. Imitate Him like little children.

• 3 John 1:2,NKJV- Beloved, I pray that you may prosper (succeed) in all things and be in health, just as your soul prospers.

• God knew He would be working through regular people like you and me. This is why He gave us a Bible full of ordinary people living extraordinary lives as they put their trust in God and take that next step of faith.

• Think about it, God has enough faith in us to call us, to give us inspired dreams, ideas, plans, purposes; He's simply asking us to have the same faith in Him.

• In Romans, Paul prays that we will overflow with a confident expectation by the power of the Holy Spirit in us.

• Keeping a God inspired, confident expectation will keep us from letting go of our faith every time things don't just fall into place. Leading us to actually becoming less independent, and more God dependent.

• After all, He is El Shaddai, The Almighty

• And if our Father told us to live a certain way, made in His image and likeness, lets leave here today with a renewed attitude. With a little divine expectation.

• What if it was said of us, “You’re acting just like your Father?”

• Today-Da-Day   start seeing yourself attempting that dream, getting that breakthrough, overcoming that sickness, walking in victory.

• Stop living just to avoid failure and disappointed.

• C'mon, you're born from Heaven, made in the image of your Father. So stop thinking and saying you can't, that there's no way out of your situation, that you've messed up too many times.

• And when everything around us is screaming, not this time;  here's one of thousands of promises from God reestablishing our hope. Empowering us to stand our ground.

• Isaiah 40, The Lord is the everlasting God, He gives power to the weak and strength to the powerless. Those who trust in the Lord will find new strength. They will soar high on wings like eagles. They will run and not grow weary. They will walk and not faint.

• David said, God arms us with strength and makes our way perfect, giving us His shield of victory. Anointing us with the oil of gladness, surrounding us with His favor. And at His right hand are pleasures forever more.

• Real, God inspired faith is built on promises from our Father, just like these. And when we yield to them, it gives the Holy Spirit something to work with, transforming us into His very own image.

• Romans 8:29,MSG- God knew what He was doing from the very beginning. He decided from the outset to shape the lives of those who love Him along the same lines as the life of his Son.

• We’re supposed to be conformed to the image of our Father.

• Ephesians 5:1,AMP- Become imitators of God, copy Him and follow His example, as well-beloved children imitate their father.

• Here’s the thing, A father’s love, well it’s a fathers love!

• Proverbs 3:12,NKJV- For whom the Lord loves He corrects, just like a father does a son in whom he delights.

• Charles Stanley wrote, “God loves us just the way we are, but He also loves us enough not leave us that way.”

• Psalm 139:16,NIV- Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be. 

• If that's the case, then according this scripture, He saw this day. Think about it, He saw today just as clear as the day He formed us.

• What if more than anything, our Heavenly Father is patiently waiting for each of us to take the next step in the life He's already seen we could have?

• Think about this, how often do you even consider this kind of living?

• Ephesians 1:4-5,NLT- Long before He made the world, God loved us and chose us in Christ to be holy and without fault in His eyes. God decided in advance to adopt us into His own family by bringing us to Himself through Jesus Christ. 

• Remember, imitate God like little children imitate their father.

• Here’s the thing, imitating God is not just passively waiting for Him to do His miracles, while we continue doing life the way we've always done it.

• Imitating is basically following. And that what Jesus told us to do. It’s actually how our life in Him is discovered.

• You’ve heard me say this many times, watching is not the same as following. Following requires doing.

• When Jesus started putting His team together, His recruiting line was very simply, "follow Me and I'll make you fishers of men."

• Jesus told His followers, "You did not choose Me, I chose you that you should go and bare fruit."

• Here’s the thing, He’s still asking us to follow, to imitate Him. I can’t help wondering if we’ve made it too easy for believers to simply hang around watching Jesus instead of following. Instead of imitating.

• God gave us three simply principles for success in the "In Christ" 

• Psalm 37:3-5,AMP- Trust, lean on, rely on, and be confident in the Lord and do good; so shall you dwell in the land and feed surely on His faithfulness, and truly you shall be fed. 
• Delight yourself also in the Lord, and He will give you the desires and secret petitions of your heart. 
• Commit your way to the Lord [roll and repose each care of your load on Him]; trust (lean on, rely on, and be confident) also in Him and He will bring it to pass. 

• Trust, Delight, Commit

• Coach John Wooden would always say, "You've got to apply yourself every day to be better, it won't just happen."

• What if more than anything, our Heavenly Father is patiently waiting for each of us to take the next step in the life He's already seen we could have? To simply imitate Him.