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December 30, 2020

Today’s Promise

The Spirit Tells Me I Am His

Romans 8:16

The Spirit Himself testifies with our Spirit that we are children of God.


Secure in Your Salvation

Understanding that you are a child of God is at the center of your walk with God. Until you are secure in your salvation, your Christian walk will be full of doubt, indecision, and fear. Over the years, I have spoken with many people who doubted their salvation. “Was my salvation experience real? Did I pray the right prayer? Was my faith strong enough? Was I sincere?” These and a thousand other questions haunt them.

You will never grow and thrive in your walk with God until there is an assurance of your salvation.

How you see your relationship with God impacts the way you live. If you see yourself as a poor, broken sinner, powerless over your sin, you will live that way. 

If you see yourself as a child of God, forgiven, an heir to the Kingdom of God, and empowered by the Holy Spirit, you will live that way.

If you have given your life to Christ, you have a powerful inward assurance that you are a Child of God. That assurance isn’t found in positive thinking or hopeful dreaming but in a deep testimony of the Holy Spirit in you.

The Spirit Speaks

As a Christian, the Holy Spirit speaks to your heart that you are part of God’s family. You are a child of the living, creator God.

Just as Jesus stands before the Father and claims you as His own, the Holy Spirit speaks to your heart that you are His. When someone “testifies,” they tell what they have seen. When the Holy Spirit testifies to your Spirit that you are a child of God, He is speaking what He has seen. 

In this chapter, the Apostle Paul had just finished talking about how we can cry out to God as “Daddy.” Now he shares that the Holy Spirit reminds us that God calls us “His Childen.”

You Are a Child of God

You are a child of God not just by association, but by a change of nature. God has adopted you as His child and given you a new nature in Him. You are not a slave but a child. You are a fellow heir with Jesus Christ.

If you struggle with doubting your salvation, ask the Holy Spirit to speak to your heart and confirm that you are a child of God.

Look at that promise again.

The Spirit Himself testifies with our Spirit that we are children of God. – Romans 8:16

Make these confessions.

  • I am a child of God.
  • The Holy Spirit bears witness that I am God’s child.
  • Because of my faith in Christ, I never have to doubt my salvation.
  • I have confidence in prayer because I am a Child of God.

In Jesus Name,
Amen

Just as Jesus presents us to the Father as His children, the Holy Spirit speaks to our hearts that we are His.

 

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6 Comments

  1. Cynthia A LeBlanc December 30, 2020 at 5:26 am - Reply

    These Today Promises not just help me but also help my Marriage, my relationship with my husband are more opening than ever before. I also did the 31 prayers for my husband and 31 prayers for wife’s. And I also did the 31 days prayers for my Pastors. What a Joyful place we are in this day. But I couldn’t do it with you Pator Bill, words can’t describe what you brought into my everyday live, I thank Father God for pouring His Word and Wisdom into you. May ours LORD God bless you with everything He has instore inside of you as he add on to you. Father, I ask of You to continue to pour Your Oil over Pastor Bill head, where it will run down others, in Jesus Mighty Name AMEN.

    • Billy Taylor December 30, 2020 at 5:49 pm - Reply

      Cynthia, I am so proud of you guys. As you pray for each other, God is going to bring you closer and closer. Thank you for your kind word. I am so glad to hear the Daily Promise is a blessing. – Billy

  2. Mark & Cindy Thornton December 30, 2020 at 6:49 am - Reply

    Amen and Amen!

  3. Wendy Hendricks December 30, 2020 at 9:39 am - Reply

    Amen!! I’m grateful that I am a child of GOD!!

  4. David Penley December 30, 2020 at 9:55 am - Reply

    Amen!

  5. David Soldan December 30, 2020 at 10:29 am - Reply

    Amen! Im a child of God??

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