Living Your New Creation Identity and Unveiling Your True Self | Open Book | Jun 24, 2025 | CR

Crystal Rivers | Open Book | Jun 24, 2025 You must fundamentally shift how you see yourself. Stop identifying according to the flesh—your physical limitations, family background, past failures, or present circumstances. You are a new creation in Christ, which means you have an entirely different nature now. This isn't just theological knowledge; it's your actual spiritual reality that must become your conscious, daily identity. Recognize that you are a spirit, you have a soul, and you live in a body. Your soul contains your mind, emotions, and will. Your body is simply the vessel. The spirit realm controls the natural realm, which means your spiritual identity determines your earthly experience. Every person's true genealogy is spiritual, not physical, because both God and Satan are spirit beings operating in the spiritual realm that governs everything you see. You have been brought into the Melchizedek priesthood, which operates on entirely different principles than earthly systems. This priesthood is characterized by endless life—no beginning of days, no end of life. Unlike the old covenant priests who died and had to be replaced, you serve under a High Priest who lives forever, and you share in that same nature of endless life. This means you are not subject to the death, sickness, and limitations that define ordinary human existence. You must engage in conscious, deliberate practice of declaring who you are in the spirit. This isn't positive thinking—it's aligning your mind and mouth with spiritual reality. Spend time each day declaring: "I am a new creation. I am righteousness. I am one spirit with the Lord. I am not subject to this world. I have the life of the world to come inside me." Do this with the same intensity and focus you would use in prayer, because you are literally instructing your soul and body to align with your spiritual identity. Stop approaching God primarily as a problem-solver. While it's perfectly appropriate to bring your needs to Him, this should not be the foundation of your relationship. God is looking for fellowship—intimate communion where you spend time with Him simply because you love His presence. Your spiritual growth is directly proportional to how much time you spend in genuine fellowship with God, not how many prayer requests you submit. Learn to declare truth regardless of what you see with your physical eyes. Your spiritual reality is more real than your physical circumstances. When you consistently declare your wholeness, victory, and divine nature—even when circumstances suggest otherwise—you are exercising faith that brings the spiritual realm into manifestation in the natural realm. This requires moving beyond the need to "check" whether something has changed before you believe it has changed. True spiritual growth happens through intimate fellowship with God, not through religious activity or behavior modification. As you spend time with Him in prayer, reading His word from your spirit, and cultivating genuine love for His presence, the Holy Spirit becomes your personal teacher. He will correct you, show you mysteries, and gradually pull you away from human agendas into divine purposes specific to your life. Understand that you are a being of the world to come, temporarily passing through this present world. The substances and life of eternity are already within your spirit. Your task is to consciously practice pulling this eternal life from your spirit into your soul and body through sustained engagement with God's word and the Holy Spirit. This isn't about attaining something new—it's about manifesting what you already possess. God's intention is for you to taste immortality while still in your mortal body. This happens as you consistently practice your new creation identity until it becomes your subconscious reality. You should reach a place where you never forget who you are in Christ, where your spiritual nature dominates your mind, emotions, and physic