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Speaker 1: Life Audio. Welcome to the Crosswalk devotional. We're glad to

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Speaker 1: have you listening with us. Today's topic is about living

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Speaker 1: like loved children rather than orphans. We'll return with the

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Speaker 1: devotional after a brief message from our sponsors. No Longer

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Speaker 1: an Orphan written and read by Cindy mcmannumon the Spirit

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Speaker 1: himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children

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Speaker 1: of God Romans eight sixteen, New King James version. Do

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Speaker 1: you realize that when we worry and fret and start

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Speaker 1: living a drama filled life, we are forgetting who we

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Speaker 1: really are? We are, in a sense, starting to live

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Speaker 1: like an orphan. After all, when you are trusting Christ

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Speaker 1: alone for the forgiveness of your sin and for eternal life,

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Speaker 1: you have become His adopted child, according to John one

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Speaker 1: twelve and Romans eight fourteen through seventeen. And in that relationship,

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Speaker 1: as His child, you have a new identity that does

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Speaker 1: not include the corruption or chaos of your past, or

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Speaker 1: the problems in your present or the fears of your future.

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Speaker 1: Your drama or problems don't define you either. In your

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Speaker 1: new role, God calls you his child. John one twelve says,

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Speaker 1: as many as received him to them. He gave the

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Speaker 1: right to become children of God to those who believe

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Speaker 1: in his name. God calls you his friend. Jesus said,

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Speaker 1: no longer do I call you servants, for a servant

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Speaker 1: does not know what his master is doing. But I

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Speaker 1: have called you friends. For all things that I heard

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Speaker 1: from my father I have made known to you John

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Speaker 1: fifteen fifteen. God, God calls you a saint in Ephesians

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Speaker 1: one to one. Believers in Christ are called saints. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: but I'm not a saint. You may be thinking. Your

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Speaker 1: actions may not always say it, but your position in

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Speaker 1: Him says it. You are seen as perfect by Him

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Speaker 1: because you are covered in the righteousness and goodness of Christ.

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Speaker 1: God calls you forgiven. Colossians one fourteen says you have

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Speaker 1: been redeemed or bought back and forgiven of all your sins, past, present,

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Speaker 1: and future. So your past sins or your past wounds

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Speaker 1: can no longer define you. Your slate is wiped clean.

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Speaker 1: God calls you complete. Do you feel like a work

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Speaker 1: in progress? Many people describe themselves that way, referring to

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Speaker 1: how they are not yet what God desires of them.

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Speaker 1: But God's word is the final authority, and it says

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Speaker 1: you are complete in Him Colossians two ten has already

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Speaker 1: been done. You just need to live in that truth

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Speaker 1: and wear it. God calls you secure, both eternally and

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Speaker 1: daily in Him. You are free from condemnation Romans eight

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Speaker 1: one and two, free from condemning charges Romans eight thirty

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Speaker 1: one through thirty four, and free from the possibility of

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Speaker 1: abandonment Hebrews thirteen five. God calls you unconditionally loved Romans

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Speaker 1: eight thirty five through thirty nine, says nothing will be

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Speaker 1: able to separate you from the love of God. Not death, life, circumstances, sin,

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Speaker 1: poor choices, a season of rebellion, nothing. God calls you

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Speaker 1: his temple. That means He lives within you. Your heart

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Speaker 1: is his home, and he dwells with you daily for

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Speaker 1: Corinthians six nineteen. God calls you royalty. He says you

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Speaker 1: are seated with him in the heavenly places Ephesians two six.

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Speaker 1: God calls you his masterpiece, created in him for good works,

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Speaker 1: which He prepared for you before you were ever born.

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Speaker 1: Ephesians two ten, New living translation. God calls you fully

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Speaker 1: capable by His power. You are able to accomplish all

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Speaker 1: things through Christ, who gives you strength Philippians four thirteen.

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Speaker 1: And God calls you his possession. You are not your own.

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Speaker 1: You belong to him because you were bought at a

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Speaker 1: price for Corinthians six nineteen and twenty. That means He

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Speaker 1: protects you and provides for you as his own. That

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Speaker 1: also means nothing can touch you that hasn't first gone

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Speaker 1: through his loving hands. Intersecting faith in life, So why

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Speaker 1: do we stress about our needs, our problems, our finances,

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Speaker 1: our health, and our relationships. Is that our way of

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Speaker 1: saying God has forgotten us and he won't really be

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Speaker 1: a good father to his child. Through are stress and striving,

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Speaker 1: we are saying to others around us, I'm on my

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Speaker 1: own because God won't or can't help me. How you

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Speaker 1: and I live day by day is evidence of what

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Speaker 1: we truly believe. An orphaned child says I am all alone.

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Speaker 1: I have no one to help me. A child of

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Speaker 1: God lives confidently the words my Father is with me

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Speaker 1: and he will help me. The more you reaffirm who

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Speaker 1: you are in Christ, the more your behavior will reflect

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Speaker 1: your true identity, a loved, well cared for child of

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Speaker 1: the Most High God who never needs to stress or worry.

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Speaker 1: Why would you want to live any other way? For

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Speaker 1: further reading, see Romans eight, Verses twelve through seventeen, and

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Speaker 1: for more on living like a loved child of God,

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Speaker 1: see my book Drama Free, Finding Peace when emotions overwhelm you.

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