Fireside Chat: When the Spirit of Quit Comes Knocking

1. One of the most important things each one must do is to prepare an individual identity statement because your perception of yourself must change. An identity statement reflects your partnership with God’s view of you.

Remember that your statement will require upgrades as you become more familiar with who you really are from Heaven’s view point. And once you have your identity statement done, you must share it with those in your group so that everyone begins to relate to each other out of the new man and not the old, dead man.

To help those in your group prepare an identity statement see the document How to Prepare a Personal Identity Statement. (This document can be found on the Aglow website under resources or in the back of the GameChanger manual.) If your group does not have identity statements, take the time to begin working on them now.

Keep identity statements on all those in your Aglow group and replace with updated statements when needed.

2. Not only does your thinking about yourself need to align with how you are known in Heaven, your thinking about others in your group must now begin to align with how they are known in Heaven.

Take the time for everyone to read aloud the beginnings of their identity statements prepared in step one – even if each person only has 1-3 sentences.

3. A third step necessary in becoming the person who God sees every time He looks at you is that your language about yourself must change. So, we are going to do an ‘instead of’ exercise now.

Taking a few minutes to think, jot down any negative statements or thoughts that you have toward yourself. Next, make an exchange in each negative statement for something God thinks about you.

Examples:
NEGATIVE STATEMENT / INSTEAD OF STATEMENT
I am so dumb. — The Brilliant Holy Spirit lives in me, making me brilliant, too!
I am so angry! — God’s peace causes me to be slow to anger.
I never can do anything right! — I can do all things through Christ.

Now, do some on your own. Share with the group. If you can’t make the exchange, have others help.