Believers have full access to the Father’s resources. They are co-heirs with Christ and heirs to every spiritual blessing. Yet, they live defeated and powerless lives. We may know the truth in theory, but we have not always been taught how to walk in it practically.
Identity and Faith: The Keys to Accessing our Inheritance
Christians have an inheritance waiting for them. Many never experience it. This is not because God is a withholder, but because many of us lack understanding.
Many are waiting until Heaven to receive what God has already provided for us on Earth. Meanwhile, they live in spiritual poverty, sickness, mental torment, and defeat. Everything Jesus purchased for them at Calvary remains unclaimed.
We have to change. We need to learn why many Christians never claim their inheritance, and also learn what that inheritance actually includes. We must understand what already belongs to us as children of God, according to scripture.
Romans 8:16-17 The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, 17 and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him, that we may also be glorified together.
This clearly declares that if we are children, then we are heirs of God and joint-heirs with Christ. We are not servants begging for scraps. Heirs! Everything that belongs to Jesus belongs to us: Every promise, Every provision, Every blessing, and Every resource. Our inheritance was never meant to be postponed until Heaven. Scripture teaches that God has already given us all things that pertain to life and godliness
2 Peter 1:3-4 Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord, 3 as His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us by glory and virtue, 4 by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these you may be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
Our inheritance must now be known, believed, declared, received, and defended. The first thing we need to wrap our heads and hearts around is that our inheritance includes righteousness.
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.
This passage tells us that we have been made the righteousness of God in Christ. Past tense. Already done. This righteousness is not something we strive to earn; it is something we receive automatically when we are born again.
Our inheritance also includes healing.
1 Peter 2:24 who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness—by whose stripes you were healed.
This passage tells us that by His stripes we were healed. Healing was purchased at the cross and belongs to us now.
Our inheritance also includes provision and abundance.
2 Corinthians 9:7-8 So let each one give as he purposes in his heart, not grudgingly or of necessity; for God loves a cheerful giver. 8 And God is able to make all grace abound toward you, that you, always having all sufficiency in all things, may have an abundance for every good work.
2 Corinthians 8:9 For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, that you through His poverty might become rich.
These passages show us that not only is God able, but Jesus became poor so that we, through His poverty, might be rich. God’s abundant provision is part of our redemption.
Our inheritance also includes peace.
John 14:27 Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
Jesus has given us His peace, not as the world gives, with strings attached, but as an everlasting inheritance.
Ephesians 1:3 confirms that we have already been blessed with every spiritual blessing in heavenly places in Christ. These blessings are not promises for the future; they are present possessions that can and should be our current reality.
Claiming our inheritance:
In the natural world, an inheritance must be claimed. In the same way, our spiritual inheritance is accessed by faith.
Romans 10:10 For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
With the heart we believe, and with the mouth we confess. Believing and speaking are the two required components for faith that saves. “Saved from what?” Hell, for starters. When we believe in our hearts that Jesus is Lord and we say it with our mouth we become born again. Every other promise of God that was given to us at salvation is obtained the same way.
James 2:17 Thus also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead. 18 But someone will say, “You have faith, and I have works.” Show me your faith without your works, and I will show you my faith by my works.
James teaches us that faith without works is dead. “Works”, in this context, means an action or actions that demonstrate what we say we believe. It literally means, “the effects of faith, or the fruit of belief”.
What we truly believe will always be expressed through corresponding words and/or actions.
How we speak and behave is the fruit of what we believe. Faith is audible and observable. What we truly believe will be heard and seen by God, His holy angels, the devil, and all his demons. They all know what we truly believe in our hearts. It is not a mystery to them. They just have to watch and listen. If we understand faith, we will recognize it in others, too. Jesus demonstrated this on several occasions.
Mark 2:5 When Jesus saw their faith, He said to the paralytic, “Son, your sins are forgiven you.
Jesus saw their faith. He then said to the paralytic, “Son, your sins are forgiven you.”
According to this story, the way He sees our faith is by seeing our actions. Our deeds showcase whether we have faith or not. In a broader sense, we can’t have true saving faith and have no “works” to show it. When we were born again, we only needed to declare our belief in Jesus. We needed to declare that He is Lord and that He rose from the dead. A verbal declaration was the only work required to receive eternal salvation.
That same principle applies to being saved from sickness, depression, and addiction. It also applies to worry, poverty, and confusion. It applies to whatever else we need saving from. Jesus paid the price for all those things. He gave us specific instructions on how to lay hold of them. He also explained how to defend them from being stolen or lost through neglect.
To claim our inheritance, we must first know God’s will. We find His will through His written Word. F.F. Bosworth was quoted saying “Faith begins where the will of God is known.”
Faith comes by hearing the Word.
Romans 10:17 So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
We are heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ. Everything that belongs to Jesus NOW belongs to us. We are His body. We have His spirit. It is time for us to think like heirs, speak like heirs, and take possession of these things by faith.
JESUS IS COMING!
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