WHO ARE YOU?, No. 707
WHO ARE YOU?
“For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works,
which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.”
(Ephesians 2:10).
We may not like to acknowledge the truth that our body does not belong to us. We are not free to do what we like. Well, we can if we want but only to our detriment. God is the Creator of our body. He created it perfectly. Gloriously. Wondrously, Amazingly. Honorably. Powerfully. And He wants us to use our bodies the way He created them to function.
Sadly, we live in a distorted society where many women are educated beyond their intelligence. They don’t seem to understand they are female. They don’t understand their “being.” Acts 17:28 says: “For in him we live, and move, and have our being.” Because God created us female, we live and exist as a female with womb and breasts to function for our blessing and the blessing of mankind. Instead, many women reject their womb and female functions as if they were something foreign. To be done away with. To be rejected and scorned. They want to live life without their femaleness. They have not found peace with their “being.”
How ridiculous to try and be someone you are not! To miss out on your purpose for life!
There were women who rejected their femaleness back in Roman times too. Romans 1:26 tells us that “God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women (a word which means a suckling mother) did change the natural function into that which is against nature.”
Apart from understanding physically who we are we also need to get back to the Scriptures and see what God says. Meditate on the following Scriptures. It is God who has the last say!
New Testament Scriptures:
Romans 9:20 (CJB): “Who are you, a mere human being, to talk back to God? Will what is formed say to him who formed it, ‘Why did you make me this way?’”
Romans 12:1: “I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.”
Romans 14:7: “For none of us liveth to himself.”
1 Corinthians 6:19: “What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are nor your own? For ye are brought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.
Old Testament Scriptures:
Psalm 100:3: “Know ye that the LORD he is God: it is he that hath made us and not we ourselves.”
Psalm 119:73: “Thy hands have made me and fashioned me: give me understanding, that I may learn thy commandments.” Do we have God’s understanding of how He created us or are we deceived by the devil’s lies?
Psalm 139:13: “For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast overed me I my mother’s womb.” The word possessed in the Hebrew is qanah and means “to create, to procure by purchase, to own, to possess.” God, who is the “possessor of heaven and earth” and who divinely created us owns from the very beginning. To create is to own. And because He so intricately and wondrously created us, He knows exactly how our bodies are to function. When we yield our lies to Him, we will live in His perfect plan.
Isaiah 29:16 (ESV): “You turn things upside down! Shall the potter be regarded as the clay, that the thing made should say of its maker, ‘He did not make me’: or the thing formed say of him who formed it, ‘He has no understanding’?”
Isaiah 45:9 (ESV): “Woe to him who strives with him who formed him, a pot among earthen pots! Does the clay say to him who forms it, ‘What are you making?’ or ‘Your work has no handles’? Woe to him who says to a father, ‘What are you begetting?’ or to a woman, ‘With what are you in labor?’”
Isaiah 64:8: “But now, O LORD, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.”
Jeremiah 18:6: “O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter? Saith the LORD. Behold, as the clay is in the potter’s hand, so are ye in mine hand, O house of Israel.”
Our Creator knows what He is doing.
PRAYER:
“I thank You, dear Father, that You are my Creator. You created me perfectly, uniquely, and miraculously to live and function as You intend. Every part of my body is specifically designed for Your purpose and my utmost blessing. Help me to lie in the wonder of Your plan. Amen.,”
AFFIRMATION:
I willingly yield my body to God for His perfect plans for my life. I yield my womb and my life as a female for it is in this capacity I will fulfil my true destiny.
Blessings from NANCY CAMPELL
Further Scriptures to read: Genesis 1:26, 27, 31; Deuteronomy 32:4; 2 Samuel 22;31; Psalm 18:30; 139:13-18; and Revelation 15:3.