You are much greater than you know. This video reveals your true identity: who God says you are and releases you to walk in your true identity. "Remember who you are. Don’t compromise for anyone, for any reason. You are a child of the Almighty God. Live that truth." - Lysa Terkeurst
00:00 Discover Your Hidden Identity
0:49 Gideon Discovered His Hidden Identity
2:42 God Corrects Moses’ Limiting Beliefs
5:18 God Defined Moses and Gideon’s identities by His presence. That is your identity too!
6:16 William Carey’s Story
8:47 Your Identity is in Christ
9:12 “The voice you listen to is the voice that defines you.” Jonathan Helser
10:22 Activation – Choose to find your identity in God’s Voice and No Other.
[William Carey’s story: “The Book of Amazing Stories” by Robert Petterson. https://amzn.to/3Wv1kyD This is an affiliate link.]
**Gideon Discovered His Hidden Identity
Jesus appeared to Gideon as an angel and said, “The Lord is with you, mighty warrior.”
Gideon told Jesus that God wasn’t with them; he had abandoned Israel.
14 The LORD turned to him and said, “Go in the strength you have and save Israel out of Midian’s hand. Am I not sending you?”
15 “Pardon me, my lord,” Gideon replied, “but how can I save Israel? My clan is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my family.”
God’s answer to Gideon’s identity questions:
16 “I will be with you” and “you will strike down all the Midianites, leaving none alive.”
**God Corrects Moses’ Limiting Beliefs
Exodus 3:1-12 NIV
God appeared to Moses in a burning bush. God sent him to rescue Israel from Pharoah and the Egyptians.
11 But Moses asked God, “Who am I, that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the Israelites out of Egypt?”
God’s answer:
12 “I will surely be with you,” God said.
Moses went on to give 5 excuses why he couldn’t. God answered all of them.
God Defined Moses and Gideon’s identities by His presence. That is your identity too!
Gideon, said I’m the least of the least.
God responded “I will be with you.” “Go in the strength you have.”
“Who am I to do this,” Moses asked.
God replied: “I will surely be with you.”
**William Carey’s Amazing Story
Willie never had higher education. He was a humble cobbler. He stuttered. And his wife was insane.
Church leaders rejected his idea to take the Gospel to India. Churches in England weren’t sending missionaries in the 1700’s.
Someone said, “Face it, William: you’re unfit.” He stuttered, “B-b-but I c-c-can p-p-plod!”
They said he wasn’t qualified to preach. And certainly not to pioneer missions work on the other side of the world. For 11 years he studied Greek, and Hebrew and other languages on his own. He finally was accepted as a minister.
He cofounded the English Baptist Missionary Society. In 1793, they sent him to India.
William Carey ministered in India for 7 years before he had a convert. He plodded on. After 20 years, he only had a small number of converts.
By the end of his life he had translated the complete Bible into 6 languages and parts of the Bible into 34 languages. He also wrote grammars and dictionaries to help others learn these Asian languages. He had established India’s first college, 45 teaching centers, and a school for girls (unheard of at that time.) He was influential in transforming Indian agriculture and was an advocate for women and the lower castes in India. In India, he is still revered as a man who loved India and helped the people.
Today, we call William Carey the “Father of Modern Missions.” Today, there are over 27 million Christians in India. And his early critics were right: he was totally unqualified. But, like Gideon and Moses, God went with Him.
All God needs is a man or woman willing to let God give us our true identity and to step out in the strength we have, knowing God’s might and power will go with us.
Your Identity is IN CHRIST
John 15:5 NIV, Jesus said:
5 “I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.
Paul said: “For I can do everything through Christ, who gives me strength.” Philippians 4:13
With Jesus – we can do anything.
Without Jesus –We can do nothing of eternal significance!
** “The voice you listen to is the voice that defines you.” Jonathan Helser
All our lives we have heard voices that told us who we are.
You may have the voice of life’s circumstances or the voice a critical parent or abusive person in your life. These are limiting voices that keep you captive to a false belief that you are far less than God actually made you to be.
Your identity is IN Christ!! Your Relationship with Jesus Defines you.
Gideon didn’t know who he was until God revealed his identity to him. The same is true of Moses, and the same is true of you.
Colossians 3:3 NIV
For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God.
Ephesians 1:11 MSG
It’s in Christ that we find out who we are and what we are living for
Activation Prayer