“Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new” (2 Cor. 5:17).

Today’s text is one of my favorite scriptures. I got ahold of it while I was still a bedfast teenager. And when I came off that bed healed, I told everyone I met, “I am a new creature!”

Meditate on this verse today, because if you do not understand the truth of what the New Birth is, it will hinder your faith and will keep you from receiving the blessings God intends you to have.

The spiritual nature of man, you see, is a fallen nature – a satanic nature. Man received this satanic nature from Satan when Adam sinned. And no man can change his own human nature. But God can!

When you were born again, something went on inside you – instantaneously! That old, satanic nature went out of you. And the very life and nature of God came into you! God created you as a brand-new creature – a new creation.
The man on the inside – the real you, which is a spirit man – has already become a new man in Christ.

So don’t look at yourself from the physical or the natural standpoint. Look at yourself from the spiritual standpoint. See yourself as a new creature in Christ.

That’s how God sees you!

Confession: I am a new creature. Old things inside me passed away. All things inside me became new. I have a new life. I have a new nature. I have the life of God!

(Taken by permission from RHEMA Bible Church , aka Kenneth Hagin Ministries , Tulsa , OK , USA.  www.rhema.org )