PROMISE #361 - DECEMBER 27
Promise #361:
You are no longer a slave, for I have made you My child and My heir.
Galatians 4:7 (WEB)
So you are no longer a bondservant, but a son;
and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.
When God looks at you, He doesn't see a servant—He sees a son or daughter. When Jesus Christ exchanged His life for our life, something miraculous happened in the heavens. He opened the way for us to be born into His amazing family. As today's promise says, we are not servants but children of God and co-heirs with Jesus.
When the prodigal son came home to his father's house (Luke 15), he no longer felt worthy to be a son because of all the feelings of shame that he struggled with. When he met his father, he said, "I am no longer worthy of being a son, so let me serve..."
Because of his feelings of inadequacy and shame, he felt that serving was the only way he could justify his place in his father's house. Many people do the same thing today. And like the father in the prodigal son story, God does not see His kids as servants but as sons and daughters, no matter what they have done.
Today, I pray that we will know that God has not given us a spirit that makes us afraid. He has given us the Spirit of Sonship where we can cry out Abba, Father (Romans 8:15). May the Holy Spirit provide each of us more revelation on what it means to be an heir of God and a joint heir with our elder brother, Jesus!
You are no longer a slave, for I have made you My child and My heir.
Galatians 4:7 (WEB)
So you are no longer a bondservant, but a son;
and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.
When God looks at you, He doesn't see a servant—He sees a son or daughter. When Jesus Christ exchanged His life for our life, something miraculous happened in the heavens. He opened the way for us to be born into His amazing family. As today's promise says, we are not servants but children of God and co-heirs with Jesus.
When the prodigal son came home to his father's house (Luke 15), he no longer felt worthy to be a son because of all the feelings of shame that he struggled with. When he met his father, he said, "I am no longer worthy of being a son, so let me serve..."
Because of his feelings of inadequacy and shame, he felt that serving was the only way he could justify his place in his father's house. Many people do the same thing today. And like the father in the prodigal son story, God does not see His kids as servants but as sons and daughters, no matter what they have done.
Today, I pray that we will know that God has not given us a spirit that makes us afraid. He has given us the Spirit of Sonship where we can cry out Abba, Father (Romans 8:15). May the Holy Spirit provide each of us more revelation on what it means to be an heir of God and a joint heir with our elder brother, Jesus!