To conclude my blogs from Guatemala I want to share about our team assignment for our month here. As a team, we decided to focus on our identity in Christ. We each had a few days to prepare, and then we would take turns sharing our heart. Since there are hundreds of verses on who we are in Christ I chose three specific ones to discuss. Part of our assignment was to talk about who God sees us as. This is what I shared on my night:
Matthew 5:13 I am the SALT OF THE EARTH. There are two forms of salt that come to mind when I read this verse. The first is a pillar of salt, like Lot’s wife. A pillar of salt is useless and concentrated. A salt shaker enables the salt to be poured out “all over” and season every part of its intended target. That is the salt I want to be! Salt without flavor is just sand. Salt is essential to our life. Once you spread it out on something, you cant just take it out. “Have lost its savour” comes from the word “moraino” which means “passively act”. IM NOT TO BE PASSIVE IN CHRIST; MY FAITH IS ACTIVE! 
John 15- I am a branch of the LORD’S VINE. I am completely dependent on God! By being dependent it is inevitable that I will always be in process. God loves me so much that he will “purgeth me, so that I will bear more fruit.” He is constantly going to be pruning me to make me more like him. So again, I’m not to be passive. I’m an active fighter in this spiritual war, and to be continually producing more and more fruit.
Isaiah 43:7- “Everyone called by my name and created for my glory. I have formed him; indeed I have made him.” Created comes from a Greek word that also means TO CHOOSE. God chose to create me! I have to do me or it is a waste of space. So I find my identity in him, not in others. This goes along with EPHESIANS 2:10, I am God’s workmanship or in another translation his MASTERPIECE!
I used to believe I didn’t have a story to tell, but now I BELIEVE that I was created on purpose for a purpose. My mother prayed like Hannah to have a child and had me at age 33. I’m not wasting this life! I have/get one life. I get to make one choice. I get one chance to be all in for Christ on earth. The lord is raising me up to be part of his army. I’m NOT an observer I want in on the front lines. I’m ready to take back what Satan thinks is his. No weapon formed against me shall prosper.
I am a person who is genuinely trying to become more and more like Christ. I desperately am trying to become the woman of God he has called me to be The gift of faith has been rising up in me. With that I am believing that this natural world has nothing on me. In the name of Jesus “thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven! Kingdom come.
Jory asked me what I thought God would say about who I was. I said I thought he’d call me HIS FIGHTER, not a spectator or observer in the spiritual battle, but a FIGHTER! MENTAL IMAGE: a fighter in a ring knocking out satan, diseases, unbelief etc etc. I got my gloves on!
