Take Your Place - when you were born again, you were made the righteousness of God in Christ, God has raised us up to sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus. That was God's purpose at Calvary: to bring us alongside Jesus. To make us what He already was

 "But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ... And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus" - (Ephesians 2:4-6).

God has raised us up to sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus! 

That's what the Word of God says. 

Very few of us have actually dared to believe this. 

We've uplifted Jesus. 

We've exalted Him - and rightly so! 

But at the same time, we've unwittingly belittled what He did by not allowing Him to bring us alongside Him.

That was God's purpose at Calvary: to bring us alongside Jesus. To make us what He already was.

You see, Jesus didn't need exalting. He was exalted before He ever came to this earth. 

He was already one with the Father. He didn't need to get authority over the devil - He'd never lost it!

He put on a physical body so that He could come to earth as a man and gain authority over sin and sickness, demons, fear, poverty and all the other curses that came when the law of death moved into the earth - and He did it. 

He succeeded. 

He mastered everything in the world of the intellect, everything in the physical world.

Before He ascended, He said, "All authority is given unto Me both in heaven and in the earth." 

Then He turned around and gave that authority to us by giving us His Name.

You and I are the reason Jesus came to earth and died and lived again. He didn't do it for Himself. He did it so He could bring us alongside. 

So we could wear His Name and wield His authority on the earth. He did it so that we could stand before God and be everything to Him that Jesus is.

When you were born again, you were made the righteousness of God in Christ! 

So as a born-again believer, dare to receive this message, to meditate on it and to act on it. 

Go ahead - dare to take your place!

Scripture Reading: Ephesians 2:1-13

Written by Kenneth Copeland

From Faith to Faith Devotional by Kenneth and Gloria Copeland

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eo_6t9MmK6Y

                 We Are The Reason - David Phelps 

lyrics

As little children we would dream of Christmas morn
Of all the gifts and toys we knew we'd find
But we never realized a baby born one blessed night
Gave us the greatest gift of our lives

We were the reason that He gave His life
We were the reason that He suffered and died
To a world that was lost, He gave all He could give
To show us the reason to live

As the years went by we learned more about gifts
The giving of ourselves and what that means
On a dark and cloudy day, a man hung crying in the rain
All because of love, all because of love

Oh and we were the reason that He gave His life
We were the reason that He suffered and died
To a world that was lost, He gave all He could give
To show us the reason to live

I've finally found the reason for living
It's in giving every part of my heart to Him
In all that I do, every word that I say
I'll be giving my all just for Him, for Him

And we are the reason that He gave His life
We are the reason that He suffered and died
To a world that was lost, He gave all He could give
To show us the reason to live
He is our reason to live

Don't You know that you are the reason
That He came oh, He came to save us
When He gave His life for us, He suffered and died

To a world that was lost He gave
Everything that He had He gave (everything)
To show us the reason to live

Don't you know that you are the reason
That He came oh He came to save us (He gave his life)
When He gave His life for us, He suffered and died

to a world that was lost He gave
Everything that He had He gave
To show us the reason to live

Don't you know that you are the reason
That He came oh He came to save us (He gave his life)
When He gave His life for us, He suffered and died

For a world that was lost He gave
Everything that He had He gave
To show us the reason to live

Songwriter: David Meece

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