You Are Not In The Pound No More!

Listen, Christian friend, I’m not going to apologize for the boldness of this post. I get sick and tired of hearing the defeated phrase, “I’m just a sinner saved by grace.” I’m a sinner, just like you. Who would even want to say such a defeated, “down in the dumps” saying like that?

We WERE sinners, saved by grace, but GLORY to GOD in the highest, who sent His Son Jesus to die on an old rugged cross so that I would have the right to reconciliation. I’ve been redeemed by grace, out of my sin nature, to take on the nature of Christ.

SO LET THE REDEEMED OF THE LORD SAY SO!!!

You’re not humble by saying, “I’m just a sinner.” What you’re truly doing is smacking the work of the cross into obsolescence in your life. You’re saying that the work Christ completed on the cross wasn’t good enough to change who you are.

Don’t ever let those words come out. You were a sinner, but now you are saved. You were lost and undone, but now you are redeemed, set upon the high places with Christ—an heir, and a joint heir right alongside Jesus Himself, who thought it not robbery.

Philippians 2:5-8
Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:
Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:
But made Himself of no reputation, and took upon Him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:
And being found in fashion as a man, He humbled Himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.

Let this mind be in you that was in Christ. The rest of the scripture says that when He became obedient, God exalted Him. We are made in His image, and we should have His mind.

If you went out and bought a puppy, you wouldn’t continually abuse it, nor would you want that puppy to keep abusing itself. You would want that puppy to grow mature and confidently run through your house, understanding its place as a comfort and security to you. It wouldn’t act, or if it could speak, say, “Yea, I was bought, but I’m still a puppy living in the dog pound.” No! It would walk proudly through the house and say, “This is mine.”

A sinner has no authority in the kingdom. YOU do, by grace. To say and continue to prophesy that you’re a sinner, or that you have a sin nature, is to deny your authority in the kingdom. And I guarantee you, I don’t want a powerless person with no authority praying for me or anyone I love.

Get this right. Repent and come into agreement with the Word. Take back your authority that you laid down. Pick it back up, man and woman of God. You are needed in the kingdom. Be kingdom-minded and stop repeating the lies of Satan.