When you look at Jesus, you are not meant to see a distant Savior. You were meant to see yourself.
He is God’s mirror, revealing your righteousness, your authority, and the life of God now living inside you.
Faith is not struggle. Identity is the key.
I want to speak to you on a subject that has been misunderstood by the church for generations.
I call it God’s mirror.
And the question before us is simple, yet eternal.
What do you really see when you look at Jesus?
Most believers have been taught to look at Jesus as someone distant, in heaven and not within, his life and ministry on earth unattainable, something meant only to be admired.
But I tell you today, Jesus was never meant to be admired from a distance. He was meant to be reflected.
God never sent Jesus merely to show you who He is.
God sent Jesus to show you who you are in Him.
When you look into a mirror, you do not see someone else’s face, you see your own reflection.
And when God looks at His Son, He sees His family.
When God looks at Jesus, He sees the blueprint of the new creation.
Yet religion has taught us to bow our heads and say, I am nothing, I am unworthy, I am weak.
That is not humility. That is unbelief dressed in religious language.
True faith dares to agree with God.
The Bible declares that Jesus is the express image of the Father. But it also declares that you are created in Christ Jesus.
That means Christ is not only the image of God, but He is also the image of the believer.
When you see Jesus victorious, you are not seeing a distant savior only.
You are seeing the life that has been placed inside you.
When you see Jesus free from sin, you are seeing what God has made you in the new birth.
The tragedy of the church is not lack of power. It is lack of identity.
We have preached forgiveness, but not what it really means to be a New Creation.
We have preached the cross without the revelation of the resurrection life dwelling in the believer.
We have told people that Jesus died for them, but we have failed to tell them what He made them into.
The mirror of God is not your past, not your feelings, not your failures.
God’s mirror is Jesus Himself.
And when you look at Him rightly, condemnation cannot survive.
Fear cannot stay.
Weakness loses its voice because you begin to see yourself as God sees you.
The Epistles were written to tell you what the four Gospels revealed in seed form.
The four Gospels show Jesus in action.
The Epistles tell you what His action accomplished in you.
If you only live in the four Gospels, you will admire Jesus.
If you live in the Epistles, you will identify with Him.
Jesus did not overcome sin so you could admire His strength. He overcame sin so you could walk in His victory.
He did not defeat Satan so you could sing about it once a week, He defeated Satan so you could stand in His authority every day.
When you look at Jesus healing the sick, you are not watching a divine exception, you are watching the pattern of the New Covenant life.
When you see Him standing unafraid before death, you are seeing what eternal life looks like in human form.
And that same life, my brothers and sisters, now live’s in you.
The mirror never lies, but it only reflects what you were willing to look at.
If you keep looking at your weaknesses, that is what you will reflect.
If you keep looking at your failures, that is what will dominate your confessions in everyday life.
But when you dare to look at Jesus as God’s mirror, something happens on the inside of you.
Faith rises, fear retreats, and the old man loses his authority.
Christianity was never meant to be a struggle to imitate Jesus, it was meant to be a revelation that Jesus lives in you.
The believer does not grow by trying harder he grows by seeing clearer.
And the clearer you see Jesus Christ, the more accurately you see yourself.
Because when you behold him, with the spiritual eyes that the new birth has opened, you are transformed into the same image-2 Corinthians 3:18
The enemy fights revelation knowledge more than anything else. But what is revelation knowledge?
We receive revelation in different degrees depending upon our dedication to actually walk with the Lord daily, where we are consciously aware of His Presence, and who He reveals He wants to be inside of us at the present moment.
If we focus on a scripture He reveals to us throughout the day, confessing it and thanking the Lord, claiming it is mine! We will begin to see ourselves that way.
But just focus on one word, one verse of scripture, focus upon it all day, see yourself that way, act that way, and it will begin to renew your mind.
Maybe not right away, depending upon your spiritual eyesight, our spiritual eyesight must be developed.
You may have to focus upon it for a week, but you will become it, because that is who you already are in heaven.
It takes a while sometimes for your mind to catch up and be able to interpret what your spirit receives from the Lord.
That word must be conceived in your spirit and must have the right kind soil for it to grow into the full stature of Christ.
The ground is your heart, in this case your soul. You must understand the functions of your soul (mind, imagination, conscience, reasoning, emotions, will, and your daily choices).
The life of God in the word you are focused upon in your spirit must flow into the different areas of your soul and renew it according to who we legally are because of the finished work of Christ on the cross.
We are to live be every word (revelation) the Lord gives to us.
But start out one word at a time, until that word is written on your heart and becomes the divine nature inside your spirit and your soul and the way you respond in this live on the earth.
That word now becomes how you respond to your daily life situations.
Then you can begin to live by another word the Lord reveals to you.
The problem with most Christians is that they hear the word, but do not act on that word and then they forget who they are in Christ.
THE NATURAL MIRROR AND GOD’S MIRROR
James 1:22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. 23 For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man observing his NATURAL face in a mirror; 24 for he observes himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was.
25 But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in what he does.
Look in God’s mirror, the PERFECT spiritual law or principle of FREEDOM.
You are either look at yourself-the flesh (that union of soul and body that acts independently of the Lord) or you are looking at who you are in Christ.
It is one or the other, and you have the choice to choose what mirror you are looking at.
Eat one word at a time and make it a part of who you are on earth, because that is who you already are in heaven.
The enemy fights revelation knowledge more than anything else.
He does not mind church attendance, he does not mind religious activity, but he trembles when a believer discovers who they are in Christ, because a believer who knows their reflection (in God’s mirror) cannot be controlled by circumstances.
They cannot be ruled by fear.
They cannot be silenced by condemnation.
They begin to speak differently.
They begin to act differently.
They begin to expect differently.
And this is where the church must return, not to ritual, not to tradition, but to revelation, to see Jesus not only as the Son of God, but as the mirror of the re-created human spirit.
And as we continue to look deeper into this divine mirror, we will begin to uncover truths that religion has hidden, truths about righteousness, authority, and the life of God that now operates within the believer.
Now, as we continue to look into this divine mirror, we must understand that revelation does not come through emotion, nor does it come through human reasoning.
Revelation comes when the Word of God becomes final authority in your life.
Many believers try to feel righteous before they believe they are righteous, but faith never follows feeling.
Feeling must follow faith.
God declared you righteous the moment you were born again, not because you earned it, but because you were placed in Christ, and Christ Himself is your righteousness.
When you look at Jesus standing, accepted before the Father, you are seeing your own acceptance.
When you see Him bold, unashamed, fearless, you see the nature that has been imparted to your recreated spirit.
Religion says one day you will be like him.
Revelation says as he is, so are you now in this world ( 1 John 4:17).
This is not pride; this is alignment with truth.
The mirror does not flatter, it does not condemn. It simply reveals.
And when a believer refuses to look into God’s mirror, they will live their entire life beneath their privileges.
Satan’s greatest weapon is not temptation, it is deception.
If he can keep you ignorant of who you are in Christ, he never needs to overpower you. He only needs to distract you.
The moment a believer discovers his righteousness in Christ, fear begins to lose its grip.
Because fear cannot dominate a person who knows they stand accepted before God.
Condemnation cannot control a heart that knows it has been cleansed (we are literally perfect in heaven). The moment you die and go to heaven you will instantly be transformed into he image of Jesus Christ because you will behold him as he is.
I am just giving you the opportunity to be transformed now upon the earth, so that you can function immediately in the government of the Kingdom.
Our life on earth, our faithfulness to walk in the light we receive (this is the vital aspect of redemption, or the righteousness we actually walk in, determines our governmental position in the Kingdom, it is called rewards, he who has been faithful in little will be faithful in the greater, thou good and faithful servant rule over 10 cities.
The reason many prayers seem unanswered is not because God is distant, but because believers approach Him with a consciousness of unworthiness.
They look at themselves, instead of the mirror.
But faith never looks inward for qualification. Faith looks at Christ and says, If He is accepted, then I am accepted.
The early church did not pray timid prayers. They prayed bold prayers because they knew their position in Christ.
Authority is not something you ask God for. Authority is something you exercise when you know who you are in Christ.
Jesus did not give authority to beggars. He gave authority to male and female sons. And sonship begins with identity.
When Jesus faced Satan, he did not struggle. He did not argue emotionally. He simply stood on revelation. It is written.
And that same word now dwells in you. You are not trying to become victorious you are learning to stand in victory.
The mirror of God does not show you a weak believer trying to survive this world it shows you a new creation designed to overcome it.
Eternal life is not a future reward it is a present possession. It is the very life of God imparted to the human spirit.
And where that life is recognized, sickness loses authority, poverty loses dominion, fear loses its voice.
This is why confession is so vital. Your confession reveals what you are seeing in the mirror.
If you confess weakness, you are not being honest, you are being deceived.
Honesty is agreeing with God. God never called you weak, He called you strong in Christ.
Growth does not come by fighting the flesh. Growth comes by feeding the new nature.
You do not conquer darkness by studying darkness. You conquer darkness by turning on the light. And Jesus is that light.
The more clearly you see him, the more confidently you walk.
Christianity was never meant to be a religion of striving. It is a life of resting in what Christ has accomplished.
The church must come to a place where it stops trying to influence God and starts reflecting Him.
When the believer finally understands that Jesus is not only his Savior but his mirror, faith ceases to be a struggle and becomes a lifestyle.
And as we move further into this truth, we must begin to uncover how this revelation affects our daily walk, our words, our authority, and the dominion God originally intended man to live in.
We must now come to the most practical yet most neglected truth of the New Covenant, and that is this.
Your words are the voice of your identity.
The way a person speaks in normal conversation reveals what he has seen in the mirror of who he is in Christ, or what he sees in his flesh (that union of soul and body, acting independent of the Lord).
Jesus never spoke words of uncertainty because He knew who He was.
He never prayed to see if the Father was willing because He knew the Father’s heart.
The confidence that Jesus manifested in his ministry here on earth is the same confidence that is intended for the believer (1John 2:6) (1 John 4:17).
When Jesus was on the earth, he had authority only over the earth, but not the heavenlies (the spirit realm), the city of Jerusalem was worse off at the end of his earthly ministry than when he started his earthly ministry.
But now that Jesus has received his Coronation of king of kings and is seated at the right hand of the Father he has delegated that authority over the heavenlies ( which is the spirit realm) to us, we are now the kings and priest (Revelation 1:5-6) that he is king over and is confidently expecting us to enforce the Authority that he has been given to him on heaven and earth (Ouranos Matthew 28: 19)
Matthew 28: 19-And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven (ouranos) (epouranios– also the heavenly places is Christ “Ephesians 1:20”) and on earth.
Matthew 28: 19- Go therefore and make disciples of all nations.
The word heaven “Ouranos” speaks of where Jesus is seated at the right hand of the Father in Heaven.
Ephesians 2: 6 and raised us up together and made us sit together in the (heavenly places) (epouranios) in Christ Jesus.
Notice the difference in the Greek words. “Epouranios” – speaks of the realm of the spirit where currently fallen angels are governing on thrones (Ephesians 6:12), we are not seated (vitally) there together in Christ Jesus. It is our responsibility to displace these fallen angles not Jesus, he delegated that authority to us.
But first we must understand “the legal aspect of redemption” and get our identity established. This is why confession is vital.
Once our identity in Christ is established, then we can operate in “the vital aspect of redemption” where we displace fallen angles over our cities.
When the word declares that death and life are in the power of the tongue, it is not speaking poetically, it is stating spiritual law.
A believer who speaks contrary to his identity in Christ will live beneath his inheritance.
Many are born again, yet they continue to confess the old man that was crucified (Romans 6:6).
They say they are sinners saved by grace, yet God says the sinner died and a new creation was born.
You cannot consistently speak weakness and expect to walk in strength.
Confession is not trying to convince God; it is aligning the human spirit with divine reality.
Faith never denies circumstances, but it refuses to give them lordship.
When you speak the word, you are not pretending, you are declaring what God has already made true through the finished work of Christ on the cross.
This is why physical sense knowledge “Christianity” is powerless.
It looks at what is seen with the physical eye and calls it truth.
Revelation knowledge looks at what God has said and calls that final.
The mirror of God never changes with circumstances.
Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and forever (Hebrews 13:8), and if you see yourself apart from Him, your faith will fluctuate.
But the moment you see yourself in Him, stability enters your life.
Dominion was temporarily removed from man; it was restored in Christ.
Adam lost authority by disobedience (Matthew 4:8-9), but Jesus regained it through obedience, and then He handed that authority to the church, not to angels, not to governments, but to believers.
Authority does not shout, it stands.
Authority does not beg, it commands.
When a believer knows his legal position or standing in Christ, they do not panic in crisis, they respond in faith.
The early disciples did not ask God to stop persecution, they asked for boldness. Why?
Because they understood their assignment in their limited knowledge at that time (Acts 1:26). The church today often prays for escape, but revelation prays for impact.
You were never called to survive in this world; you were called to overcome it (1 John 5:4) and influence it.
The life of God in you was designed to dominate circumstances, not be dominated by them.
This does not mean the believer never faces pressure, but it does mean pressure never has the final word.
Faith is not mental agreement, it is spiritual seeing, and what you see determines how you live.
When you see Jesus as Lord seated at the right hand (Acts 2:33) of the Father , you must see yourself seated with Him in the heavenly places (Ephesians 2: 6) we are His body now on this earth and are to govern the atmosphere over our cities), speaking of spiritual authority in the heavenlies, where currently fallen angles are governing the world system.
Jesus has stripped them of their authority making an open spectacle of them in the spirit realm, but it is our responsibility to displace them, but we cannot do it with a divided church.
We are called to make disciples of not only our cites, but our states and our nations (Matthew 28;18).
But we first must have our lives under the Lordship of Jesus Christ over our spirit, bringing our soul and body into subjection.
Then our home, family, and if the leaders of the church we attend our preaching false doctrine and our not open to the truth, they are part of religious Babylon, and we must come out from among them.
There needs to be one city church in our city lead by the Holy Spirit, then we can displace that fallen angel over our city and create an open heaven where the darkness over our city is lifted and people can see their need for Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savor.
This is our position right now from the earth, we have been given dominion over planet earth.
From that position in the heavenlies (spirit realm) you pray, you speak, you live. This is why prayer changes when identity is revealed and settled.
This is the gospel of the kingdom; the kingdom is NOW!
And we are the ones who are going to change planet earth, and Jesus must remain in heaven (Acts 3: 21) at the right hand of the Father until the kingdom of God advances throughout the entire earth.
You no longer pray from desperation; you pray from authority.
You no longer ask God to come down; you enforce what has already been done.
The New Covenant believer does not fight for victory, he enforces victory.
And this enforcement is not done through fleshly effort, but through quiet confidence in the Word.
The more you meditate on who you are in Christ, the less room doubt has to operate.
Faith flourishes where revelation is strong.
The greatest need of the Church is not more teaching but clearer seeing.
When the believer truly understands that he is God’s workmanship created in Christ Jesus.
Insecurity dissolves.
Comparison disappears.
Fear loses its grip.
And as we go further into this revelation, we must begin to examine how this divine identity reshapes our daily decisions, our response to trials, and the supernatural normalcy.
God intended for us to live the New creation life.
The New Creation life was never designed to be occasional or emotional it was designed to be consistent and victorious.
One of the greatest misunderstandings in the church is the idea that faith works only in moments of crisis.
Faith is not an emergency tool, faith is a way of life.
The believer who only uses faith when trouble comes has already waited too long.
Faith is built in quiet hours of revelation, not in noisy moments of desperation.
When you see yourself in Christ daily, trials lose their ability to surprise you, in fact you rejoice in them, because they are opportunities to grow spiritually. The opportunity to ask who Jesus wants to become in us, right now since we have this opportunity, whereas before, we might not have had this opportunity to see what was in our heart if we respond to these trials in the nature we inherited from the fallen sons and daughters of Adam and Eve. All we have to do is find a verse of scripture the reveals the promise or provision of Jesus Christ for us, then we meditate on it, confess it and become it so that we respond with the Divine nature.
Jesus was never shaken by circumstances because He knew the source of His life.
He did not draw strength from the environment; He carried life within Him.
And that same life now resides in you. Right now, I am appropriating the long suffering of the Lord to relate to religious people.
Patience has to do with contrary circumstances; it is not passive waiting.
Patience is faith refusing to quit. The New Covenant believer does not endure suffering to earn victory he stands in victory while pressure attempts to resist him.
This is where many fail, because they interpret delay as denial.
But faith understands timing without surrendering position.
When the Word says you are more than a conqueror, it is not speaking of future glory only, it is declaring present reality.
The mirror of God does not show you a struggling believer hoping for deliverance, it shows you a believer equipped to overcome.
The Christian life is not lived by emotional highs and lows; it is lived by settled truth.
When revelation governs your thinking, circumstances are forced to adjust.
Satan cannot stop a believer who refuses to be moved.
He can create noise, but he cannot remove authority.
This is why the believer must learn the discipline of meditation.
Meditation is not emptying the mind it is filling the heart with truth until it becomes reality.
What you meditate on determines what dominates you.
If you meditate on problems, problems will grow.
If you meditate on Christ, faith will rise. The word in your mouth is the word made flesh again.
Jesus was the living word in his generation. The Church is the living word, in this generation.
God does not need to come down from heaven to act. He needs believers who know who they are.
The supernatural was never meant to be rare. It was meant to be normal.
Healing, provision, guidance, and peace, these are not special rewards for spiritual elites, they are the natural outflow of divine life.
When the believer walks consciously in Christ, fear has no soil to grow in.
Faith does not require perfect conditions, it creates conditions.
This is why the believer must guard his inner image.
You will never rise above the image you carry inside.
If you see yourself weak, vulnerable to temptations of the flesh, you will live weak.
If you see yourself in Christ, strength will manifest naturally.
God never asked you to produce fruit by effort.
Fruit is the result of abiding in the vine that produces life. Abide in Christ and fruit is inevitable.
The problem is not lack of power; the problem is misplaced focus.
The moment you stop looking at yourself and begin looking into God’s mirror, transformation becomes effortless.
You do not change by struggle; you change by revelation.
And as we continue to explore this truth, we must now begin to uncover how this New Creation consciousness reshapes relationships, decision-making, and the believer’s response to the pressures of everyday life.
Revelation demands response. Truth that is merely admired will never transform a life.
It is truth that is acted upon that becomes power.
God did not reveal Jesus to the church so that believers could debate theology.
He revealed Jesus so that believers could live differently.
The ultimate purpose of God’s mirror is not information, it is transformation.
When a person truly sees themselves in Christ, they cannot return to living as they once did.
Old fears lose their authority.
Old habits lose their grip.
Old limitations lose their voice.
The New Creation consciousness produces a new way of living.
You begin to walk with quiet confidence, not arrogance, because you know the source of your life, is not yourself.
You stop striving to be accepted and begin resting in acceptance.
You stop measuring yourself by others and begin measuring yourself by the Word.
This is where spiritual maturity is developed.
A mature believer is not one who has no challenges, but one who refuses to be moved by them and overcomes them.
They understand that circumstances are temporary, but identity is eternal.
When pressure comes, they do not panic. When opposition rises, they do not retreat.
They stand firm, not in their own strength, but in the finished work of Christ.
The believers who know who they are do not live reactively, they live intentionally.
Their decisions are guided by revelation, not fear.
Their relationships are shaped by love, not insecurity.
Their future is approached with expectation, not uncertainty.
This is the life God intended when He sent His Son.
Jesus did not come to start a new religion he came to restore a family, and that family was meant to reflect the Father in the earth.
You are not called to copy Christ from a distance you are called to express Christ from within.
The Church is the visible body of an invisible Christ.
When the world looks at the believer, they are meant to catch a glimpse of Jesus, not through perfection of behavior, but through consistency of life.
This is why the mirror must be visited daily, not to see your failures, but to reaffirm your identity in Christ, who you legally are through the finished work of Christ on the cross, where he took your sin into his soul and body. So that he could transfer his righteousness and all his divine attributes to you, all you have to do is learn how to appropriate them, so that you show up in this life as the reflection of Jesus Christ.
The Word of God is not a book of rules it is a revelation of who you are in Christ.
When you look into it honestly and humbly, it will shape your thinking, your speaking, and your living.
Faith then becomes natural, love becomes effortless, authority becomes quiet but undeniable.
And the more you walk in this light, the more others will be drawn not to you, but to the Christ you reflect.
This is the destiny of the New Creation, to live above condemnation, to walk in love, to speak with authority, to reign in life through one, Jesus Christ.
And as you continue to look into God’s mirror, you will not see yourself as weak, defeated, or unworthy, but you see yourself as God sees you, complete in Christ, accepted in the Beloved, filled with His life, and sent into this world as a living expression of His grace and power.
Amen, Let it become so in everyone who reads this message, give them ears to hear, I command light to shine in their hearts in Jesus’ name!