I want to share Kenneth E. Hagin's Faith Food today.
"Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new" (2 Cor. 5:17).
Today's text is one of my favorite scriptures. I got ahold of it while I was still a bedfast teenager. And when I came off that bed healed, I told everyone I met, "I am a new creature!"
Meditate on this verse today, because if you do not understand the truth of what the New Birth is, it will hinder your faith and will keep you from receiving the blessings God intends you to have.
The spiritual nature of man, you see, is a fallen nature - a satanic nature. Man received this satanic nature from Satan when Adam sinned. And no man can change his own human nature. But God can!
When you were born again, something went on inside you - instantaneously! That old, satanic nature went out of you. And the very life and nature of God came into you! God created you as a brand-new creature - a new creation. The man on the inside - the real you, which is a spirit man - has already become a new man in Christ.
So don't look at yourself from the physical or the natural standpoint. Look at yourself from the spiritual standpoint. See yourself as a new creature in Christ. That's how God sees you!
Once a person recognizes that they are a personal sinner, in need of a personal Savior, and they receive Jesus of Nazareth as Lord and Savior, THIS Truth is the next most important one to know! If we don't have confidence in who we are - in HIM - then we will never be able to walk in the fullness of all that the God of the Bible intended for us from before the foundation of the world! You ARE a spirit being. You HAVE a soul (mind, emotions, and will) and you live in a human body while on the earth. Your spirit is instantly recreated the moment you receive Jesus as Lord and Savior. Your body WILL BE instantly made new at the Rapture, or catching away, of the Church. Your soul must be renewed on a daily basis in order to understand just who you are and what you can do as a born again child of the Living God! Begin to spend time every day getting to know YOU, according to the Word of God! Amen! Here is Hillsong with a new creation song called "Beneath The Waters/I Will Rise":
Shalom in Him!
