When you have coffee with the man who has a message on identity, it sparks conversations that lead to messages we all need to hear. This morning I was talking to my friend Daron and he was talking about identity. As we talked the Holy dropped in my heart that we as believers are working for the validation at the end of our life that says, “Well done good and faithful servant.” However, Jesus operated from the identity inauguration which says, “When He had been baptized, Jesus came up immediately from the water; and behold, the heavens were opened to Him, and He saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting upon Him. And suddenly a voice came from heaven, saying, “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.”

We work for a validation from the Father, Jesus worked from a validation from the Father. We view ourselves as servants, the Father views us as sons and daughters. When we are inaugurated in our identity as a son or daughter, we are then sent forth to work as sons and daughters. We are not trying to earn any validation, for we have already been validated. But how many people are working to be validated, to hear the words, well done good and faithful servant and in doing so they miss the reality that they are already a son or daughter of God.

Daron was telling me a story about a book that rocked his world and a vision he had while reading it. In the vision he saw his own reflection in a bar of gold and the Lord spoke to him and said, “You are gold to me, that is why you can see yourself in this gold bar.” Daron was weeping right there. I then said to him, “There is no reflection that can be seen in a brick, yet we build brick and mortar all the time declaring this is the house of God.” We continued our talk and realized, we are gold that is why we are reflectors of Christ who is in us, the hope of glory.

Friend, you are gold, you are the reflection of Christ on the earth. He has declared over you, “You are my son, you are my daughter, with you I am well pleased.” Now go do the works of the kingdom of God on earth from your identity, not for it, for you are already stamped on the gold bar, daughter, son of God!!!!!