Last week the Lord put on our hearts the vision of the army being arrayed (Habakkuk 2:1). This week He is showing us the purpose for His soldiers (one of the main ones being justice – Isaiah 56:1, Zechariah 7:9-10). Alongside this primary mission the Lord has also been saying to Israel (and to me personally) – know your identity.
On Monday night we heard a powerful teaching about the Generation of Jacob (Psalm 24) and about Jacob himself coming into his true identity with God (Genesis 32:22-32). This realization of his identity didn’t come easily but he actually had to wrestle with God Himself, before the Lord could give him the blessing of his heavenly inheritance – the name of Israel (beyond that of his earthly father’s blessing from Isaac). It is not posted yet but I highly encourage you to keep checking into the Succat Hallel Podcast to listen to the full teaching by Steve Carpenter.
So today, during my personal time with the Lord, it was like the Lord spoke through a megaphone and said to me: “You better know your identity in the army, in My Son, Yeshua, and in my Kingdom.” I know that this word is not just for me, but also for all of us. We cannot merely assume our identity during this season, but we have to know our identity. How can we maintain and carry out the duties of our position in His army if we don’t know what that position is?
Identity is not necessarily what we tend to think of as our “Calling”. There is a much deeper sense of identity that belongs to all of us. That identity is rooted in the glory of Yeshua:
So then, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live in him, rooted and built up in him, strengthened in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness. Colossians 2:6-7
Our identity is defined by our inheritance with Him. If you look through the Bible most often times a man was identified by His father’s name, “O Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest” (Haggai 2:4, etc). Although I am not a Bible Scholar what I can draw from this is that this way of introducing someone in the Bible had to do with establishing his identity. A son is given His inheritance through his father, and so when the name of the father is mentioned, it gives the reader an understanding of the man’s lineage, and thus his inheritance. Our inheritance is given to us through the covering of Yeshua,
“For this reason Christ is the mediator of a new covenant, that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance—now that he has died as a ransom to set them free from the sins committed under the first covenant.” (Hebrews 9:15)
The Lord gave the inheritance of His Kingdom to His first-born, Yeshua (Revelation 1:5). Only by entering into fellowship, into covenant with Yeshua can we receive that eternal inheritance, “I pray also that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints, and his incomparably great power for us who believe.” (Ephesians 1:18-19)
So that being said, our identity is not placed in a job title (given by men), or even the things we do on this Earth, but our identity is rooted and established in the love of the Messiah, that He would lay down His life for is friends, that we too might share eternity with the God of all creation. Our identity is found by “putting on” Yeshua,
“For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus. For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.” Galatians 3:26-27
“For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God.” Colossians 3:3
We can only be recognized by the Lord through His Son, so just as Jacob had to put on goatskin so that His father, Isaac, would recognize Him as Esau, we must put on the flesh of Yeshua, that the Mighty God of the Universe may recognize us in His Son. This is our identity and the hope of our calling, “To them God has chosen to make known among the Gentiles the glorious riches of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.” Colossians 1:27
So before any spiritual gift, or job description for the Kingdom, we must first recognize the Name that is above all other Names, that has been written on our hearts (2 Corinthians 3:3), for that is the Name we bear (Jeremiah 15:16), that is the Name we represent (Colossians 3:17), and that Name defines who we are (John 17:11, 20:31) – Yeshua.
We are the body of Christ, and once we understand that is our identity, then can we understand our calling. 1 Corinthians 12
Ephesians 3:14-21
For this reason I kneel before the Father, from whom his whole family in heaven and on earth derives its name. I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.
Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.
Colossians 2:6-8
So then, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live in him, 7rooted and built up in him, strengthened in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness. See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the basic principles of this world rather than on Christ.
John 15:5
I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.

















