Signed, Sealed, and Delivered - Day 9

Today Lisa and her family will bury her grandmother, Irene Smith. In your prayers for Lisa and Clois, praise God for the lasting legacy of Irene's life. She has left a mark and it blesses even us. Lisa wrote this weeks ago but, this is GST (God Standard Time) for today:

"Personal documents. Identification. Passports. These are all forms of evidence that tell the world who we are. We need these types of important papers. It’s important that we be able to identify ourselves to others. To prove we are who we say we are. To enter another country or reenter your own you must show your citizenship. My passport has expired and I can’t find my birth certificate so I logged onto the government website for help. I now get to fill out mounds of paperwork to get my birth certificate so I can then fill out mounds of paperwork to get a passport. Proof of citizenship doesn’t come lightly.

Why is it so important to have documentation of citizenship? Because it proves we have a right to be here and we have a right to the privileges of this country. As Christians we have documentation that we are who God says we are. We must keep this Holy Passport with us at all times to prove to the enemy we have a right to be here, receiving what God has for us. Many times we use the mentality of, “I’m trying to be who God says I am”. There is no power in this. When we have that mindset we are not using all the resources our homeland provides. We don’t have to try to be children of God. It’s who we are.

In an old Richard Gere movie, Red Corner, he plays a business man in China being framed for murder. In one scene he is running from the police to the American Embassy. If he makes it there he will be completely safe even though he’s in a foreign land. Once he’s inside that embassy it’s like he’s on American soil. He’ll be entitled to all the privileges of American citizenship. But he must make it inside and be able to prove he is an American citizen.

Christians are strangers to this earth but not without power. This is not our home but we are here for a purpose God has ordained. Thanks to the Holy Spirit we are walking embassies. People can run to us to learn how to become citizens of the Kingdom of Heaven. But we must remember we are who God says we are.

This has been a problem for many who’ve sought to follow God. The Lord told Moses to deliver the Israelites and Moses responded, “Who am I that I should go to Pharoah and bring the Israelites out of Egypt?” Later he also said, “O Lord, please send someone else to do it.” Moses kept looking at who he was without God. We can relate to Moses. We all have things in our past (some not too distant past) that keep us from accepting our true citizenship status.

God, in his grace, knows our weakness. He said to his main man Joshua before entering the Promise Land, “be courageous” then God repeated himself and even added, “be very courageous”. Could it be that even the mighty Joshua was nervous about stepping into this new territory? God promised Moses and he promised Joshua and he promises us…”I will never leave you nor forsake you”.

So let’s remember our true citizenship. The devil will be standing at the border telling us we have no right to enter. We have no right to enter Joy, Peace, Unconditional Love and Forgiveness. He’ll try to say we have no right to start this ministry. But when we take this land it is not in our power nor for our glory but it is by the power of the King and for his glory. We are redeemed. We are children of the most High God. Oh yeah, and while citizenship in Him does require our acceptance, it doesn’t require filling out a bunch of paperwork."

Monday will be a day of fasting. Be in prayer as to what God would ask of you.