Every believer walking the path of sanctification soon discovers that the Christian life is a battleground—not because we are weak, but because we have been awakened. When the Spirit makes us alive, the war between flesh and Spirit intensifies. This inner conflict is not evidence of failure; it is evidence of formation. It means the Spirit is at work, confronting what once ruled us.
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Now that we have laid the foundation—that identity becomes calling—we move into the first and most essential expression of our response: surrender. Identity without surrender becomes theory. Identity with surrender becomes transformation. Knowing who you are in Yeshua (Jesus) must lead to a yielded life, because the Spirit does not shape what we withhold. He forms what He fills, and He fills what is fully surrendered.
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You become like whatever you behold. Identity is not shaped by striving but by seeing — by gazing upon the glory of Yeshua (Jesus). Paul writes that as we behold “the glory of the Lord,” we are “being transformed into the same image from glory to glory.” Identity begins with revelation, but it matures through beholding.
Continue – this devotional isn’t done blessing you.From the beginning, the enemy’s strategy has never been raw power — it has always been accusation. The serpent did not overpower Adam and Eve; he distorted their identity. He didn’t attack their strength; he attacked their perception of who they were and who God is. The battle has never changed. Revelation calls Satan “the accuser of our brethren,” whose weapon is the distortion of identity, shame, and fear. But it also declares his defeat: “They overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and the word of their testimony.”
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One of the most breathtaking truths of your identity in Yeshua (Jesus) is this: you are not merely forgiven — you are an heir. Not a servant in the house, not a distant relative, and not an outsider tolerated at the table, but a co-heir who shares the inheritance, authority, and destiny of the Son Himself. Paul declares, “If children, then heirs — heirs of God and joint heirs with Messiah” (Romans 8:17), a truth that reshapes everything about who you are.
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From the very beginning, God’s intention for humanity was not simply to live before Him, but to work with Him. In Genesis, before sin ever touched the world, the Lord placed Adam in the garden “to tend it and keep it” (Genesis 2:15). This was not a curse or a burden — it was a sacred partnership. God formed the garden, but He entrusted its cultivation to man. From the start, heaven and earth were designed to operate together, united in purpose, reflecting divine collaboration rather than human independence.
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One of the most powerful truths of the gospel is this: when you came to Yeshua (Jesus), God didn’t upgrade your old life — He ended it. Salvation is not renovation; it is resurrection. Your old identity didn’t get repaired — it got crucified. Scripture declares, “If anyone is in Messiah, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new” (2 Corinthians 5:17).
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