identity – My Grace Untold

Your Coat Of Many Colors – II

“But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people, that ye should show forth the praises of Him who hath called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.”

1 Peter 2:9

I believe that the story of Joseph and his coat of many colors was an enactment of God’s own love for His chosen ones. The distinction that comes before the

We are not all endowed similarly, but we have been endowed by the same God who has clothed you and I in the coat that He saw fit for His purpose.

Yet, it seems the moment we touch ground in the world, everything and everyone around us try to clothe us in something other than the glory and distinction that the Most High God clothed us in when HE ALONE formed us in our mother’s womb.

You should know by now that absolutely nothing happens by chance, but by God’s perfect plan.

That cold shoulder you’ve received and not deserved, that betrayal that happened with the one you held the closest, that lie that seemingly almost ruined your name, those persons that would rather you change something about yourself to ‘fit in’ better with the group, those stares of disdain because of your accomplishments at work, all of that, is a result of the divine coat that your Almighty Father has placed on you!

If you are like me, you have endured a series of abuse, hate, dishonor, and deceit, some of which you have placed on yourself because you have been trying so hard to cover the coat in which Jehovah clothed you. You may have visited that place of misunderstanding and lies where you decided that your ‘coat of many colors,’ was too complex or even too heavy for you to keep on, so you have attempted to take it off. You have attempted to be something else aside from the royal child of the King of kings.

Do you not know that your coat is your very own essence, that God put together for HIS glory? And that your coat is a piece of greatness, God’s Own Greatness?

Do you not understand that the making of your distinct coat is to identify you as HIS chosen? To set you apart by His marking? For His purpose? In His Kingdom?!

Friend, God has clothed you in His majesty and mysteries for His own purpose and you never have to trade in your coat for one color because you feel misunderstood or hated.

The promise on your life, your purpose, your destiny, is far greater than even you know! It is too important to give up for anything or anyone. It is all woven in the coat that your Father in heaven has clothed you in.

So I urge you today to walk in your coat. Polish your coat. And most importantly, give thanks to God for your coat.

I pray today that you are encouraged by God to walk in the true calling of who HE ordained you to be. May the fresh anointing from heaven fall on you, unmask you, and bring you to a realm of clarity and truth to see the glory on your life. May you now live and prosper in that glory in Jesus name. Amen.

Your Coat Of Many Colors – I

1 Peter 2:9

Early this morning on the radio, I heard the heartfelt testimonies of two different men as it related to hearing the voice of God at their lowest moments in life.

Amazingly, the song the first man wrote as a cry of praise to God, came out of a place of darkness and misery where he was battling the lies that the enemy had fed him about his worth. The second man then testified to feeling the voice of God reach him the very first time he heard the first man’s song. He then wrote a song that channeled the truth of the first man’s song.

Redemption is as overwhelming to receive as it is beautiful to embrace.

I was greatly moved, not only by the power of God to love us beyond our sin and filth, but really by the battles that these two adult men faced within about who they were and their worthiness in the eyes of God.

Sin can make us feel so very far from God.

But we serve such a good, merciful, Father, that no sin can ever keep us far enough that His hands cannot reach out to comfort us when we need it the most.

As I heard both men’s songs of testimony, the voice of God resonated with me too.

Then I recalled a good word I recently heard from a powerful messenger of God regarding God’s love.

I was reminded that much like these men, I too, was created distinctively by divine hands and was clothed in majesty and glory because the One who created me saw me worthy enough to form me in His Own likeness.

Friend, you too have been clothed! FINISH READING HERE

Your Public Garment

“Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith the LORD. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the LORD.”

Jeremiah 23:24

anything that’s done in the dark will surely come to light.”

So when men of great influence crumble at the reveal of their secret evil ways, I for one glorify God for his truth and goodness.

That’s why we love TV shows and books. We know that a peak of intensity is reached when a secret is revealed.

Funny enough, we seem to be living in secret. Funny enough, so many of God’s children run to the Father behind closed doors but put on a very different and often indifferent garment when in public. Why is God a secret? I mean why should your relationship to the King of kings be a secret?!

My heart often aches for God’s children in many other nations where the love of God has to be kept in secret by law. May God help us.

Everyone of us know at least someone who acts one way in private and another in public. And I used to believe in the saying that encourages a modification of character for the ‘public eye,’ but thank goodness for the breaking of strongholds even in the slightest forms we don’t readily recognize.

Friend, what is the need for a public garment?

I wonder what is so compelling about the approval of others that we feel the need to hide our true selves as God’s children.

Truthfully, many of God’s children are battling the ills of the world in search for their identity, but what about the ones who know who they are in Christ but fail to wear truth? CHECK OUT ‘WATCHU GOT ON?’ HERE

As children in our youth, there is always that one person whose family background as believers, is apparent for everyone to see. So everyone often watches in awe how this one person strays from a faith-based home to a reckless and faithless path. The question is usually, “what happened?…”

Is it fear or uncertainty that helps keep our public garment on? Or is the lies of the enemy that has convinced you that you are not worthy or righteous enough to bear the name of “God’s child?”

Why are we so sure that the world can only accept us when we live pretentiously? What prove do we have that there is no room for us as God’s child in the ‘public eye?’

You ever considered maybe the the public, the world, is waiting on you to take your public garment off so they too can follow? Ever thought that maybe your declaration of God’s truth to those around you, is the catalyst to a breakthrough of God’s truth in them?!

Friend, it is time to discard your public garment!

So I pray today that you are filled with the courage to worship and live in God’s truth wherever you are. May we never again feel the need to lie about who we serve in Jesus name. May we never be afraid to proclaim God’s great name and reign in Jesus name. I pray that the Lord grants you the grace to step out of your secret place and into the light with the garment of faith and obedience in Jesus name. Amen.