Righteousness Matters
Righteousness Matters!
Over the years as a professional Christian counselor, my clients would struggle to comprehend and then fully walk out their righteousness that Christ so preciously died to give us. Knowing and standing in your righteousness is the key to divine health, as well as your spiritual protection from the lies of the Enemy. So here are a couple practical tools to help you train your soul to believe you have been made righteous and holy because of Jesus.
On my website, www.kingdommindset.global under the Resources tab, then click Downloads (*free), you will find a list of declarations based on God’s Word about your identity and righteousness in Christ. Read them often, recite them throughout the day. Speak them over your spouse and children. Then ask the Holy Spirit to unpack them for you, to give you deeper revelation into the meaning of these God-breathed words. Ask Him to show you specifically how understanding these truths will keep you in divine health.
Then read the Gospels. Study the nature, the speech and the interactions Jesus has with those around Him. His family, His friends, and His enemies. What kind of stories or parables did He teach and why? Ask the Holy Spirit to reveal to you a deeper, God-given understanding of who He is, not something you could achieve in your own intelligence, rather it is through divine revelation that you would know Him better.
I first incorporated this kind of prayer, in asking the Holy Spirit for more revelation of who Jesus is, by studying 1 Corinthians 2: 10-13: “For the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God. For who knows a person’s thoughts except the spirit of that person, which is in him? So also no one comprehends the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might understand the things freely given us by God. And we impart this in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit, interpreting spiritual truths to those who are spiritual.”
To accept and stand it the fullness of what Jesus died to give you, His righteousness, you must be ever-seeking fresh revelation. He delights in seeing the benefits, the inheritance of what His sacrifice was meant to establish. Eternal life, yes, forgiveness of sins of course, but also freedom from shame and condemnation in this life. Jesus said He came to give you a life more abundant. Will you seek to hold onto the truth of His identity, His literal presence in you, so that you might become salt and light to the earth?