We are the Heart of God: Identification, part 3

Identification

Vision Verses: 1 John 4:16-17

16 So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him. 17 By this is love perfected with us, so that we may have confidence for the day of judgment, because as he is so also are we in this world.

"We are"every1one praying

Our Father, Exalted, Holy, Above, Loving, Merciful...from me, as a new creation in-Christ Jesus Your Son, we come to pray every-1-one. “We are” Your Body, Your Bride,  & Your Beloved by Your Blood, for our forgiveness and newness.  Our sincere and simple prayer of believing, is that “We are” Receiving Your Heart, the Heart of God. And that LORD, “We are” Reflecting Your Heart, because as You Are so also are we in this world. “We love because YOU first loved us.” God Your Love, Your Thoughts, Your Heart is toward us.  “We are” Your Heart. Therefore LORD, Your love, Your thoughts, Your Heart is our Identification for who “we are” and represented toward people in our world. Father, in the Power of The Holy Spirit, Flowing as The River of GOD, cause Life and it more Abundantly in every occupied seat, every hearer by media, ppl touching ppl, some are praying as learners for discipleship, some as leaders for penetration of truth, some who hunger & thirst for Righteousness to be Filled; some that are practical in need for The Word to be made flesh by application in their personal lives, some who want us to give more attention and value to seeing Jesus ask for communication of The Christ and His completion of The Cross, some are deliberate about the spiritual warfare of deliverance from darkness and bondages that dampen, while others are just wishing for the nitty gritty of how does the all this make sense of The God of The OT, and yet we pray all of these private petitions wound be met by YOUR profoundness and prophetic revelation to every-1-one of us because we need to know who “We are,” that God is what today is for...! in The Name of Jesus Christ our Identifier,  Amen

A Praying Passage - Psalm 143 if you are feeling faithless, forsaken, forgotten, a hopelessness, or distress & depression

Let us Glare, Gaze, & get a Glimpse @ God’s Glorious I.D.

• we finished seeing our Identification last week in 1John 4
• Today, we will see God’s Identification &
• How we are Identified with God & Christ

The Vision is for Identification

• excerpt of email... Hey Pastor!So the song link I just sent you has really been speaking to me especially with the identity we have been talking about, its called "Identity" by James Fortune & Fiya. Some people may argue that this is not Biblical because you are asking God to change your identity and He already knows who you are in Him...BUT there are so many people who find their identity in the wrong things or in the things they do. Some might find their identity in their fraternities,their sport teams, so I just thought this is a good song and I hope you enjoy it!
• an email excerpt from another necessary member...Quite honestly, and the Lord as my witness, I have been in Awe at the way the Holy Spirit has inspired the past couple of messages. Without question, this new vision for 2013 has been birth by The Creator Himself. As I sat during the inauguration of the vision and heard each leader speak, everything just made perfect sense to me, at first. In other words, the vision seemed perhaps simple and pretty straight forward.  At that moment in time His Spirit brought to my remembrance something that I once heard described about the Bible. 
• It was said that the Bible is as simple to understand that a child can comprehend it, but it can be so deep that theologians can drown in it.  As it pertains to the vision of  “We are the Heart of God” without a doubt it is a topic which you can experience these 2 extremes. As the vision continues to deepen, I believe I begin to see perhaps what is the starting point of it at least in my life.  The Lord has taken me back to the words of the same psalmist who said “Oh Lord, search my Heart” Pastor, I believe our father is taken us all back to the importance of prayer. He is desiring to shape his people to have the heart that He desires from us. It truly takes dialog with the creator of the universe to understand where we stand and to grab a glimpse of who we will become through the transforming power of Christ. May our hearts and lives by a sweet fragrance to the Loving God whom we serve.

God's Identification - Jesus

• The WORD- John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 14 And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth. 
• John the Baptist- John 1:30 This is he of whom I said, 'After me comes a man who ranks before me, because he was before me.' 33 I myself did not know him, but he who sent me to baptize with water said to me, 'He on whom you see the Spirit descend and remain, this is he who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.' 34 And I have seen and have borne witness that this is the Son of God." 
• God The Father- Matt. 3:17 and behold, a voice from heaven said, "This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased." 
• 2Pet.1:16 For we did not follow cleverly devised myths when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty. 17 For when he received honor and glory from God the Father, and the voice was borne to him by the Majestic Glory, "This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased," 18 we ourselves heard this very voice borne from heaven, for we were with him on the holy mountain.
• the devil- Luke4: 3 The devil said to him, "If you are the Son of God, command this stone to become bread."
• demons- an unclean spirit. And he cried out, 24 "What have You to do with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are--the Holy One of God." 
• His disciples- Matt. 16: 15 He said to them, "But who do you say that I am?" 16 Simon Peter replied, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God."
• the world-  Matt. 27: 54 When the centurion and those who were with him, keeping watch over Jesus, saw the earthquake and what took place, they were filled with awe and said, "Truly this was the Son of God!"
• Jesus Intercepts Judgement & Fear! Luke 23: 40 But the other rebuked him, saying, "Do you not fear God, since you are under the same sentence of condemnation? 41 And we indeed justly, for we are receiving the due reward of our deeds; but this man has done nothing wrong." 42 And he said, "Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom." 43 And he said to him, "Truly, I say to you, today you will be with me in Paradise."
• We no longer no him as he used to be but brand NEW
• HE could have picked any of HIS Divine Names, Attributes,  Achievements, or Accomplishments! 
• But GOD Chose AN Irrefutable Presentation of HIS Identification...“I AM”
• Exod. 3: 13 Then Moses said to God, "If I come to the people of Israel and say to them, 'The God of your fathers has sent me to you,' and they ask me, 'What is his name?' what shall I say to them?" 14 God said to Moses, "I AM WHO I AM." And he said, "Say this to the people of Israel, 'I AM has sent me to you.'"
• Like Father, Like SON!
• John 8:57 So the Jews said to him, "You are not yet fifty years old, and have you seen Abraham?" 58 Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I AM

We Are Identified with God and Christ

• Exod 3:10 Come, I will send you to Pharaoh that you may bring my people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt." 11 But Moses said to God, "who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the children of Israel out of Egypt?" 12 He said, "But I will be with you, and this shall be the sign for you, that I have sent you: when you have brought the people out of Egypt, you shall serve God on this mountain."
• Does NOT matter who i am, who we are! God Said HE Will Be With us!
• 2Cor. 5: 14 For the love of Christ controls us, because we have concluded this: that one has died for all, therefore all have died; 15 and he died for all, that those who live might no longer live for themselves but for him who for their sake died and was raised. 16 From now on, therefore, we regard no one according to the flesh. Even though we once regarded Christ according to the flesh, we regard him thus no longer.
• We are NO longer regarded by who we use to be in the flesh, just like Jesus is no longer lil’ Hebrew boy...

Our Conscious Conflict

Here & Now in my world and way...; i must admit sometimes..

• i do what i want, and...
• i know i do what’s wrong.
• Therefore, i do what i want and know it’s wrong, and this creates my conscious conflict with
• Christ’s Grace.
• change my wants 
• want what’s good 
• by receiving & knowing my Identification is with God and Christ!; which will cause me live out of who i am!  
• Matthew 5 MSG: 43 "You're familiar with the old written law, 'Love your friend,' and its unwritten companion, 'Hate your enemy.' 44 I'm challenging that. I'm telling you to love your enemies. Let them bring out the best in you, not the worst. When someone gives you a hard time, respond with the energies of prayer, 45 for then you are working out of your true selves, your God-created selves. This is what God does. Matthew 5 MSG: He gives his best - the sun to warm and the rain to nourish - to everyone, regardless: the good and bad, the nice and nasty. 46 If all you do is love the lovable, do you expect a bonus? Anybody can do that. 47 If you simply say hello to those who greet you, do you expect a medal? Any run-of-the-mill sinner does that. 48 "In a word, what I'm saying is, Grow up. You're kingdom subjects. Now live like it. Live out your God-created identity. Live generously and graciously toward others, the way God lives toward you.

We are the Heart of God - unmistakable identification

• The Disciple Peter was an original Bourne Identity 
• Garden of Gethsemane sliced an ear off
• but a little damsel I.D.’ed him
• a rooster I.D.’ed him
• his speech I.D.’ed him, Oh you have been with JESUS!
• Your I.D. gives you away! That’s why you are so nervous around sin, does not sit well when you are in it, ppl around you know who you are! I just pray you know...