We all have valuable assets that benefit us and others, including strangers. But sometimes, we narrow these assets unknown to us that one thing beats all other things we could ever classify as assets. That is our IDENTITY.
Identity is a fundamental aspect of human experience that shapes how we see ourselves and how we are seen by others. This, in turn, influences how we interact with people and how we navigate the world.
Your understanding of your identity controls your choices, emotions and decisions.
Most of the ladies God has brought my way over the years are burdened with the question, ‘What is my purpose? How can I discover my purpose?’
Sometimes, people ask me, ‘How did you discover your purpose?’
We all have valuable assets that benefit us and others, including strangers. But sometimes, we narrow these assets unknown to us that one thing beats all other things we could ever classify as assets. That is our IDENTITY.
Identity is a fundamental aspect of human experience that shapes how we see ourselves and how we are seen by others. This, in turn, influences how we interact with people and how we navigate the world.
Your understanding of your identity controls your choices, emotions and decisions.
Most of the ladies God has brought my way over the years are burdened with the question, ‘What is my purpose? How can I discover my purpose?’
Sometimes, people ask me, ‘How did you discover your purpose?’
When questions of purpose come my way, it excites me because it shows that an individual who asks is hungry and desirous for a purposeful living.
A fulfilling life is found in purposeful living.
But while you are desperate to find or know your purpose, you should first know your identity because your identity is the compass that journeys you to your purpose.
Your identity is not what you’ve done or did; instead, it is a profile of who you are in the Spirit and a predictor of who you could be on earth. This identity shows you who you are, whose you are, what you have, why you are here and what you can do.
A complete definition of who you are is a function of your relationship with Christ, not based on anything you can do but on your acceptance of what Christ has done.
Your identity is not who you have become by the grace of God, but your identity is in what Christ did. Your identity is firmly anchored in Christ’s accomplishment, not yours; His strength, not yours; His performance, not yours; His truth, not yours; His victory, not yours.
Before you chase purpose, discover your identity. This makes the journey to purpose shorter and more straightforward.
As believers, our identity is first how God sees us. It takes revelation to see who God says we are, faith to believe who God says we are, and courage to live out who God says we are.
We must first believe that God is who He says He is before we can believe we are who He says we are.
Your true identity is not what the world defines for you. Your true identity is who the Creator of the World thinks, knows and sees.
Let’s take a quick journey to Acts 3. A lesson to draw from the incident happened at the beautiful gate.
When Peter and John met the lame man at the beautiful gate, he asked for money. Peter told him they had no silver or gold to give him, but they had something worth more than silver and gold.
And Peter, fastening his eyes upon him with John, said, Look on us.
Acts 3:4 KJV
And what they had, they gave.
When Peter said, “Look on us,” he knew what they had in them. They had the fullness of the Holy Ghost in them. He wasn’t speaking out of faith but based on what he had seen, touched, and handled.
The lame man got healing at their hands through the Name of Jesus.
Every day, we meet people in our family, neighbourhood, work environment, school premises, place of worship, or even through social media. Remember this: You always leave them with something. And it’s usually something you have. That’s your identity.
What you give defines you to others and forms your identity.
When you are Born Again, you are given a new identity—the Scriptural and spiritual truth of who you are—as a citizen of a new kingdom and a new family member, possessing distinctive qualities that set you apart from your former life.
This identity shows you the new nature you have adopted and the character you could manifest because of that nature.
As you live out the nature of your new-found identity, your eyes and heart will be enlightened to see and receive your purpose.
