10/07/2022
Relying on a label in the search for validation won’t lead us to our true identity. Throughout our lives, people attach labels to us. We even earn labels and use them to protect ourselves from the pain of being rejected, with the hope to fit-in.
Labels can set us up to live from a false narrative based on one event, or based on how our family and friends view us: bully, perfect, thief, drunk, addict, divorcee, loser, winner, bratty, shy, spoiled, mean, ugly, pretty, smart, dumb, stupid, ignorant, conceited, dramatic, extravagant, pathetic, entitled, etc...
We also label others to explain and assign meaning by compartmentalizing situations and behaviors. Often, we're communicating with a label something about ourselves by saying, "I'm not that." However, the fact that we label people by their behavior and characteristics can end up limiting our curiosity about a person and strip us of our rightful Kingdom birthright identity 🔑.
Let’s stop living from our past failures and successes and no longer define people based on label identities 🔑.
Let’s start a Kingdom label revolution and begin to refer to everyone by their Kingdom name instead of worldly labels:
KNOWN ONE: ““Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations.””
Jeremiah 1:5 ESV
ADOPTED ONE: “he predestined us for adoption to himself as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will,”
Ephesians 1:5 ESV
CREATED ONE:: “So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.”
Genesis 1:27
BELOVED ONE: “Look with wonder at the depth of the Father’s marvelous love that he has lavished on us! He has called us and made us his very own beloved children. The reason the world doesn’t recognize who we are is that they didn’t recognize him. Beloved, we are God’s children right now; however, it is not yet apparent what we will become. But we do know that when it is finally made visible, we will be just like him, for we will see him as he truly is. And all who focus their hope on him will always be purifying themselves, just as Jesus is pure.”
1 John 3:1-3 TPT