Power of An Exodus Identity

Key Scripture: “ Behold I send the Promise of My Father upon you, ...wait until you are endued with power from on high." Luke 24:49  

Power Point:

The health center where I go regularly to be “adjusted” back to health, is called, “The Exodus Center”. This past week Dr. Jockers wrote an article on the “Exodus Brand”-describing what characteristics make Exodus unique.  The first thing you notice when you enter the door is the worship music.  That is certainly unique. The second thing is the unashamedly bold scriptures written on the walls declaring God’s promises for our well being. You are met with a smile and a welcoming attitude. When you meet with Dr.Jockers, he greets you with such enthusiasm and confidence that when you leave you know you will be better than when you came in. At the close of each session he prays power into your body. It is certainly worth the miles I drive each week to go there. In fact I can’t imagine starting my week without an Exodus Experience.

As Christians we are constantly reminded that we are “new creations."  We are new creatures living in a post-resurrection society. We are supposed to have a “resurrection identity”. Everything in our lives should be filled with “new” power, “new” dreams, “new” direction and purpose. We are filled with the boundless living hope of God. The Resurrection is supposed to have given us the “new” that moves us from poverty to prosperity, from lack to abundance and from discouragement to hope.  It should make a difference. Other people should look at us and see “new”.

When the children of Israel began their exodus out of Egypt, things should have been different.  In Exodus 1:14 it describes what their “Egyptian identity” was. “And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage…All their service in which they made them serve was rigor.” In case you were wondering, “rigor” means harshness, severity, and cruelty. Wouldn’t you think they would have been tickled to death to be out of that place?

It seems not. Shortly after their miraculous journey began they started and ended each day with complaints about the “new” and a longing to return to the “old”.

Beloved, if we’re not careful we can do that too. If we do not begin to establish a “Resurrection Identity” in our hearts and minds we will never move beyond where we were when Jesus set us free.  We will miss the confident expectation of God’s goodness in our lives and trade it for the old way of “just making do”, just barely getting by, and living “under” our circumstances. That’s the old way of thinking and unless we change our thinking nothing else will change. You can’t get “new” results from “old” thoughts. You can’t live in resurrection power if you refuse to leave your old place of bondage. You just can’t.

In Dr. Jocker’s article, he says that an Exodus identity is one that acts in “audacious faith”. Don’t you love that? And it is the truth. If you’ve made the exodus out of the world into the kingdom of God, then you life will be governed by faith. I vote for making that faith audacious.  How about you? Are you ready for an exodus into freedom?

Power Thought:

Are you still living in your exodus experience or have you moved on to experiencing the resurrection and all that Jesus died to give you?