Take Your Place

One morning I was sitting at my dining room table studying the Word of God concerning righteousness. As I studied, the Lord said to me, “Understanding righteousness is the doorway to receiving everything I have freely given you.”

The Word of God says in 2 Corinthians 5:21, “For He (God) made Him (Jesus) who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.” Adam lost his place of right standing with God when he disobeyed what God told him (see Gen. 3), but we have been brought back into a place of right standing with God in Christ, back into a place of fellowship with Him. We could not and did not do anything to attain or earn this place. God freely gave it to us. Christ made Himself to identify with us in our sinful state and made us to identify with Him in His place of righteousness. It is up to each one of us to understand that, step into it, and walk in the fullness of all God has freely given us.

When God spoke to me in the quietness as I studied at my dining room table, I was well versed in the Bible. I’d spent three years studying the Bible and training for ministry at Rhema Bible Training College. I spent many hours sitting in different classes and countless hours reading and studying the Word of God. One of the classes at Rhema was called Righteousness. I remember sitting in that class with tears of joy flowing down my face as the Holy Spirit revealed to me the simplest of truths concerning righteousness and my place in Christ. It was so freeing! I had never experienced such freedom. It was almost overwhelming. My entire life I tried to earn God’s goodness, but it was a free gift all along.

I always believed I had to reach a place of almost being perfect in order to receive anything from Him. With the understanding of righteousness, the burden of trying to “earn anything” just lifted off me. All the misconceptions of God and who I thought He was faded away. Over the last fifteen years, the Lord has taught me and brought me into a deeper understanding of who He is, of righteousness, and of our place in Christ. He didn’t give me this revelation to keep to myself but to share with others. It has been a life-changing revelation for me, and I believe it will be for you as well. I remember telling Him, “Now that I know the truth and walk in this freedom, You must use me to tell the whole world, because everyone has the right to walk in these freedoms that I so much enjoy.”

I am not the first or only person to receive such revelation, but this is His revelation in my words, and I know He will use it to minister to those who will listen. So I challenge you to have ears to hear, and you will receive revelation you have never received before. Through this revelation, you will be able to receive and walk in all God has freely given you. But for this revelation to come, a person must first get to know God, and in order to get to know Him, we must get into His Word. His Word gives us insight and reveals to us who He is and His nature. We must know Him and His nature before we can fully understand righteousness and what He has freely given to us.