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Empowered by Righteousness
Wiping the Slate Clean
We are living in exciting and
interesting times. It’s in times like
these that we need to be partakers of
all that God has promised us through His
word. One of the greatest gifts we have
been given by our Heavenly Father is His
righteousness. The moment He breathed
His Spirit upon us by believing in His
only begotten Son, as newborn babes in
Christ, He clothed us in His
righteousness, wiping our slate clean
forevermore. When we have a full meaning
of what it means to walk in the
righteousness of Christ, we are
empowered by the Holy Spirit to be an
overcomer in all that comes our way.
When Jesus embraced the death of the
cross by enduring extraordinary pain,
suffering, and humiliation, His precious
blood was poured out for us so that we
could experience the same righteousness
He experienced in His sinless life.
2 Corinthians 5: 21 For He made Him
who knew no sin to be sin for us, that
we might become the righteousness of God
in Him.
To be empowered by His
righteousness entails living completely
free from condemnation and guilt. If we
are to embrace all that empowered living
entails, breaking free from the chains
of condemnation and guilt is a
significant key to total empowerment in
Christ. Before Christ, our lives were
constantly bombarded with the
condemnation and guilt that is at the
very heart of sin and shame.
It’s important to understand that in
Christ we have been perfected forever.
Even though sin often holds us back from
embracing the perfect righteousness that
our belief in Jesus Christ offers us, we
must continually embrace His
righteousness if we are to be empowered
by it.
His righteousness remains
in us no matter how many times we may
sin and blow it. Proverbs tells us that
a righteous person falls seven times and
gets back up. . It’s interesting that
the writer uses the the number seven,
which stands for completion or
perfection. As seen below, we are
perfected forever when we submit to the
Lordship of Jesus Christ.
Hebrews 10:14 For by one offering He has
perfected forever those who are being
sanctified.
The fact that we are
still being sanctified refers to the
fact that there is still sin in us that
must be dealt with as we are transformed
into the image of Christ from glory to
glory. However, amid the sin still in
us, we are perfected forever, which
means we are free to live without
condemnation or guilt. In the Father’s
eyes, He sees us as perfect, standing in
the righteousness of Jesus, which means
we will never be any more perfect than
we already are. This is what gets us off
the performance treadmill and causes us
to rely on Christ’s sufficiency in us
rather than our own.
Romans 8:1-2
There is therefore now no condemnation
to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do
not walk according to the flesh, but
according to the Spirit, 2 For the law
of the Spirit of life in Christ has made
us free from the law of sin and death.
Salvation through our belief in
Jesus Christ and His resurrection takes
hold when we wholeheartedly embrace it
by allowing our hearts to begin the
transformation process through genuine
repentance.
Romans 10:9 that if
you confess with your mouth the Lord
Jesus and believe in your heart that God
has raised Him from the dead, you will
be saved.
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The
"Rise of the Anointed Ones"
is a 40-day devotional book
that perfectly fits our
present times. As you read
through the 40 devotionals,
you will find a beautiful
blend of timeless truths
fitly applied to today's
culture and challenges. The
majestic flow from theme to
theme contains powerful
prophetic revelations as God
calls His Anointed Ones to
rise. Each of these
devotionals stands on its
own, but together they will
propel the reader into a
rewarding journey of
experiencing God's presence
in tumultuous times. Each
devotional ends with a
Davidic poem in nature
flowing like a delightful
stream with heavenly
impartations. "Rise of the
Anointed Ones" is like a
voice in the wilderness
calling God's beloved away
from all that distracts to
Him who is jealous for His
bride.