August 13 🌿 “WHO GOD SAYS I AM” I AM A NEW CREATION 📖 2 Corinthians 5:17 (LLV) — “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.” We carry memories of who we once were. Choices we regret. Words we wish we could take back. Failures we would rather forget. Sometimes the past speaks loudly. It tells us, “This is who you are.” But God says something different. “If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation.” Notice what Paul does not say. He does not say we become a slightly improved version of ourselves. He says, “a new creation.” The gospel is not simply God repairing a few damaged places in our lives. In Christ, He gives us a new identity. “The old has passed away.” That does not mean our memories disappear. It does not mean our past choices never had consequences. But it does mean they no longer have the authority to tell us who we are. Our failures do not have the final word. Our shame does not have the final word. Our past does not have the final word. Christ does. “Behold, the new has come.” God is still working. Still changing. Still teaching. Still transforming. Some changes happen immediately. Others unfold slowly as we learn to walk in the new life Christ has given us. There may be days when we do not feel very new. But our identity does not depend upon how new we feel. It depends upon what God has declared to be true. In Christ, we belong to Him. In Christ, we are forgiven. In Christ, we are being transformed. In Christ, we are new. A new beginning receives a new identity: my past is part of my story, but because I am in Christ, it no longer gets to tell me who I am. Reflection: Is there something from my past that I still allow to define me more strongly than what God says about who I am in Christ? Prayer: Heavenly Father, thank You that in Christ I am a new creation. Help me release the failures, regrets, and labels of my past that I continue to carry. Teach me to see myself according to Your grace rather than yesterday's mistakes. Continue Your transforming work within me, and help me walk today in the new life You have given me. In Jesus' name, Amen.

🔥 MY IDENTITY IS SECURE IN CHRIST. 🔥 I am NOT who my past says I am. I am NOT my mistakes. I am NOT the labels people put on me. I am NOT who I used to be. 🙌 ✝️ I AM A NEW CREATION IN CHRIST! The old me doesn't get to define the new me. When Jesus changes your life, your past becomes part of your testimony—not your identity. 💯🔥 📖 “If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation.” — 2 Corinthians 5:17 I know WHO I am because I know WHOSE I am. ❤️‍🔥 💬 If you're thankful Jesus gave you a NEW LIFE, comment “NEW CREATION!” 👇 ➕ FOLLOW FoxxFusion Ministries for more faith, hope, encouragement, recovery, and reminders of who you are in Christ! 💗 #NewCreation #IdentityInChrist #JesusChangedMe #Faith #FoxxFusionMinistries

Holy Wit – Bible Study #7 Children of God (Walking in the Light: Studies Through 1 John – 1 John 2:28–3:10) Scripture Reading (NKJV): 1 John 2:28 And now, little children, abide in Him, that when He appears, we may have confidence and not be ashamed before Him at His coming. 1 John 2:29 If you know that He is righteous, you know that everyone who practices righteousness is born of Him. 1 John 3:1 Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! Therefore, the world does not know us, because it did not know Him. 1 John 3:2 Beloved, now we are children of God; and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He is revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is. 1 John 3:3 And everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as He is pure. 1 John 3:4 Whoever commits sin also commits lawlessness, and sin is lawlessness. 1 John 3:5 And you know that He was manifested to take away our sins, and in Him there is no sin. 1 John 3:6 Whoever abides in Him does not sin. Whoever sins has neither seen Him nor known Him. 1 John 3:7 Little children, let no one deceive you. He who practices righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous. 1 John 3:8 He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has sinned from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil. 1 John 3:9 Whoever has been born of God does not sin, for His seed remains in him; and he cannot sin, because he has been born of God. 1 John 3:10 In this the children of God and the children of the devil are manifest: Whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is he who does not love his brother. 1 John 2:28–3:10 (NKJV): https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+John+2%3A28-3%3A10&version=NKJV ________________________________________ 1. Abide in Him Until He Appears John begins this section by returning to the command that closed the previous one: “abide in Him.” Abiding is not a vague spiritual feeling or a momentary experience. In the setting of 1 John, it means continuing in the apostolic truth about Christ, remaining in fellowship with Him, and refusing the deception of those who deny the Son. The Christian life is sustained by the same Christ in whom it began. John also places this perseverance under the light of Christ’s appearing. The return of Christ is not an ornament attached to Christian doctrine; it gives urgency and direction to Christian living. Those who remain in Christ may face His coming with confidence rather than shame. This confidence is not self-confidence built upon a flawless record. It rests upon Christ our Advocate and is confirmed by a life that continues in Him. A profession of faith that abandons Christ cannot provide biblical assurance. John therefore joins perseverance, assurance, and the second coming: the believer keeps abiding because Christ will appear, and because fellowship with Him makes that appearing a hope rather than a terror. 1 John 2:28 (NKJV): https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+John+2%3A28&version=NKJV John 15:4–5 (NKJV): https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+15%3A4-5&version=NKJV ________________________________________ 2. Born of Him: Righteousness as Fruit, Not Root John’s reasoning in verse 29 is carefully ordered. He does not say that people become children of God by performing enough righteous deeds. He says that the practice of righteousness reveals that a person “is born of Him.” The new birth is the source; righteous conduct is its fruit. This protects the gospel from two opposite errors. Legalism treats obedience as the price of acceptance with God. Lawlessness treats grace as permission to remain unchanged. John allows neither. The righteousness of Christ is the believer’s only ground of acceptance, yet the Christ who justifies also transforms. Justification and sanctification must be distinguished, but they must never be separated. Good works do not create new life, but new life creates good works. John speaks of “practicing” righteousness because he is describing the settled direction of a life, not claiming that Christians reach sinless perfection. The question is not whether a believer ever sins; John has already said that believers must confess their sins. The question is whether righteousness has become the governing allegiance of the life. Obedience is not the purchase price of sonship. It is family resemblance. 1 John 2:29 (NKJV): https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+John+2%3A29&version=NKJV Ephesians 2:8–10 (NKJV): https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ephesians+2%3A8-10&version=NKJV ________________________________________ 3. “What Manner of Love”: Children Now, Glory Yet to Come John does not merely tell believers that God loves them. He calls them to stop and consider what kind of love this is: the Father has bestowed a love that makes rebels His children. This status is not earned, imagined, or merely honorary. “Now we are children of God.” What Paul commonly describes as adoption, John often describes as being born of God. Both truths declare that salvation brings believers into a real filial relationship with the Father. The world does not recognise this identity because it did not recognise Christ. Rejection by the world is therefore not proof that God has abandoned His people; it may reflect the same spiritual blindness that rejected the Son. Yet Christian identity contains both an “already” and a “not yet.” Believers are truly God’s children now, while the fullness of what they shall be has not yet been revealed. At Christ’s appearing, they will be like Him because they will see Him as He is. John is not teaching that creatures become divine in essence. He is speaking of glorification: complete conformity to Christ in holiness, freedom from sin, and life suited to His presence. The Father’s love gives both a present name and a future destiny. 1 John 3:1–2 (NKJV): https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+John+3%3A1-2&version=NKJV Romans 8:15–17, 29–30 (NKJV): https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+8%3A15-17%2C29-30&version=NKJV ________________________________________ 4. Purifying Hope The hope of seeing Christ is not meant to produce speculation without obedience. “Everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as He is pure.” Biblical hope is not uncertain wishing. It is confident expectation grounded in God’s promise. Because believers know where salvation is going, they begin to live now in a manner consistent with that destination. The future likeness to Christ exerts a sanctifying pressure upon the present. John’s wording also shows that sanctification involves real Christian effort. The believer purifies himself, yet he does so only because God has made him His child, given him hope, and is transforming him. Grace does not remove human responsibility; it creates and empowers it. This purification includes confession of sin, the rejection of corrupt desires, obedience to God’s Word, and a deliberate refusal to make peace with what Christ came to remove. The standard is not the surrounding culture, nor comparison with other Christians, but Christ Himself: “just as He is pure.” John gives no support to perfectionism, but neither does he leave room for comfortable stagnation. The person who expects to see the pure Christ must desire purity now. 1 John 3:3 (NKJV): https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+John+3%3A3&version=NKJV Titus 2:11–14 (NKJV): https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Titus+2%3A11-14&version=NKJV ________________________________________ 5. Sin, Lawlessness, and the Mission of the Son John now defines sin with a severity that modern thought often avoids: “sin is lawlessness.” Sin is more than weakness, poor judgment, or emotional brokenness. Those things may accompany it, but at its heart sin is resistance to the authority of God. His law reveals His holy character and rightful rule; to sin is to act as though the creature may dismiss the Creator’s command. Against this lawlessness John sets the sinless Son. Christ was manifested “to take away our sins,” and “in Him there is no sin.” Only the sinless One could bear the sins of others, and His saving purpose cannot be separated from the destruction of sin’s rule. John therefore says that the one who abides in Christ “does not sin” and that the one who sins has neither seen nor known Him. Read alone, those words might appear to teach that a Christian never commits a sin. But John has already denied sinless claims and instructed believers to confess their sins, resting in Christ their Advocate. His concern here is the continuing practice and dominion of sin. A believer may fall into sin, but cannot settle into it as an accepted way of life. Christ did not come merely to reduce sin’s consequences while leaving its authority untouched. He came to take sins away and to destroy the works of the devil. 1 John 3:4–8 (NKJV): https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+John+3%3A4-8&version=NKJV 1 John 1:8–2:2 (NKJV): https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+John+1%3A8-2%3A2&version=NKJV ________________________________________ 6. God’s Seed and the Two Families Verse 9 presses the doctrine of regeneration to its moral conclusion. Whoever has been born of God does not continue in sin because God’s “seed” remains in him. John does not fully explain the image here, but its force is plain: the new birth is not a religious costume placed over an unchanged nature. God gives an enduring principle of spiritual life. The statement that the believer “cannot sin” does not mean a physical inability to commit an individual sinful act; John’s own earlier teaching rules that out. It means that the person born of God cannot live under sin as an unbroken, unrepentant, defining pattern. New birth creates a holy contradiction between the believer and the sin that still remains. John then speaks with startling clarity of two families: the children of God and the children of the devil. This is moral and spiritual lineage, not physical descent, and it does not make the devil a rival god. He is a creature and a rebel. Yet his children bear his resemblance through lawlessness, while God’s children increasingly bear the Father’s resemblance through righteousness and love. There is no morally empty Christian identity in this passage. Claims, labels, experiences, and religious language are tested by a life that practises righteousness and loves the brethren. John does not ask whether a person has achieved perfection. He asks whose character the person’s life increasingly displays. 1 John 3:9–10 (NKJV): https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+John+3%3A9-10&version=NKJV John 8:42–44 (NKJV): https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+8%3A42-44&version=NKJV ________________________________________ Reflection Questions 1. How does abiding in Christ produce confidence concerning His appearing (1 John 2:28)? 2. Why must the practice of righteousness be understood as evidence of the new birth rather than the cause of it (1 John 2:29)? 3. What does it mean to be a child of God now, and what remains future about that identity (1 John 3:1–2)? 4. In what practical ways should the hope of seeing Christ purify a believer’s present life (1 John 3:3)? 5. How do 1 John 1:8–2:2 help us understand the statements that the person born of God “does not sin” and “cannot sin” (1 John 3:6, 9)? ________________________________________ Prayer Points 1. Thank the Father for the love by which He has made believers His children. 2. Ask for grace to abide in Christ and to await His appearing with confidence. 3. Pray that the hope of seeing Christ will produce deeper purity and obedience. 4. Ask God to expose settled patterns of sin and to strengthen righteousness and love for fellow believers. ________________________________________ For further study (NKJV): John 1:12–13 https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+1%3A12-13&version=NKJV Romans 6:1–14 https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+6%3A1-14&version=NKJV 2 Corinthians 3:18 https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2+Corinthians+3%3A18&version=NKJV ________________________________________ #HolyWitBibleStudy #GordonMcGinnis #WalkingInTheLight #1John2_28To3_10

✝️ Identity in Christ — by Grace Shepherd Who You Are in Him Scripture: “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation…” — 2 Corinthians 5:17 Reflection: In Christ, you are not defined by the mistakes you’ve made or the labels others have placed on you, God rewrites your story from the inside out, giving you a new identity rooted in grace, not guilt. When old memories try to pull you backward, remember that God has already called you forward. You are His child, His workmanship, and His beloved, and nothing in your past has the power to change who He says you are now. Prayer: Lord, help me walk confidently in who You say I am, renewed, redeemed, and Yours. Amen.

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Let's talk about it. THE GREAT DEBATE: SHOULD CHRISTIANS LISTEN TO SECULAR MUSIC? Message Written by Evang Bright Ikedichi This is one of the most controversial topics in the Body of Christ today. Some believers say there is nothing wrong with listening to secular music as long as the lyrics are clean and uplifting. Others believe Christians should completely avoid secular music because it can influence the mind, emotions, and spiritual life in ways that draw people away from God. So what does the Bible actually teach? Before we answer that question, we must understand something important. Music is not just sound. Music is one of the most powerful forces on earth. It affects emotions, shapes thinking, influences behavior, and can even impact spiritual atmosphere. Throughout Scripture, music was used to worship God, celebrate victories, express repentance, and communicate spiritual truths. When David played his harp, the evil spirit troubling Saul departed for a season. This shows that music can affect the spiritual environment around a person. Because music carries influence, believers must be careful about what they continually allow into their hearts and minds. The real issue is not simply whether a song is labeled "Christian" or "secular." The deeper question is this: What message is the music promoting? Does it glorify God or glorify sin? Does it encourage holiness or encourage worldliness? Does it strengthen your faith or weaken your spiritual sensitivity? Many secular songs promote pride, immorality, greed, revenge, lust, violence, drunkenness, and rebellion against God's standards. When believers repeatedly feed their minds on such messages, those messages can gradually shape their thoughts and attitudes. The Bible tells us in Philippians 4:8 to think on things that are true, honest, just, pure, lovely, and of good report. This verse gives Christians a powerful filter for evaluating every form of entertainment, including music. At the same time, it is important to avoid legalism. Not every song produced by a non-Christian artist automatically promotes evil. Some songs discuss family, kindness, perseverance, hard work, love, and positive values without directly opposing biblical principles. This is why wisdom and discernment are necessary. A believer should not merely ask, "Is this music popular?" The better question is, "What is this music producing inside me?" Does it increase my love for God? Does it strengthen my spiritual walk? Or does it stir desires, attitudes, and behaviors that pull me away from Christ? The danger comes when music begins to dominate a believer's heart more than God's presence. Many Christians can spend hours listening to music every day but struggle to spend a few minutes reading the Bible or praying. That should concern us. Anything that consistently pulls our affection away from God deserves careful examination. The Bible says we should guard our hearts because out of them flow the issues of life. What enters the heart repeatedly will eventually influence the direction of life. This does not mean believers should live in fear. It means believers should live with discernment. Every Christian must honestly evaluate the music they consume and ask whether it is helping them grow spiritually or slowly weakening their hunger for God. The goal is not merely avoiding bad music. The goal is becoming more like Christ. When that becomes the priority, many decisions become much easier. The question is not simply whether Christians can listen to secular music. The greater question is whether the music we listen to is drawing us closer to God or further away from Him. TEACHING SUMMARY Music is a powerful influence that can shape thoughts, emotions, attitudes, and spiritual sensitivity. Christians should not evaluate music merely by labels but by its message, influence, and effect on their relationship with God. Believers are called to exercise wisdom and discernment, ensuring that what they listen to aligns with biblical values and supports spiritual growth. The ultimate standard is whether the music strengthens faith, promotes holiness, and helps believers become more like Christ. Let us learn and reason together. Do you believe Christians should completely avoid secular music, or should they use biblical discernment when choosing what to listen to? Has music ever positively or negatively influenced your spiritual life? Share your thoughts in the comments. Prayer May God grant us wisdom to guard our hearts, discern what edifies our faith, and walk in a manner that pleases Him. Amen.

July 10, 2026 Friday Proverbs 10:18 "He that hideth hatred with lying lips, and he that uttereth a slander, is a fool." This verse targets the discrepancy between what is happening inside someone's heart and what comes out of their mouth. Solomon splits this brand of foolishness into two specific behaviors, which often act as two sides of the same coin. 1. The Mask: "He that hideth hatred with lying lips..." The first part of the verse addresses hypocrisy. The Action: This is the person who harbors deep resentment, envy, or malice toward someone, yet smiles to their face, pays them empty compliments, or pretends to be their friend. Insight; The Bible calls these "lying lips" because the outward kind words are a deliberate cover-up for an inward poison. It reminds us that politeness without genuine love is just a form of deception. 2. The Weapon: "...and he that uttereth a slander..." The second part addresses reputation destruction. The Action: "Uttering a slander" means spreading false reports, malicious gossip, or twisted truths behind someone's back to make them look bad. Insight: When someone bottles up hatred (the first half of the verse), that pressure eventually has to go somewhere. Usually, it leaks out when the target isn't around, morphing into gossip and slander. Why does God call this person a "Fool"? In the Book of Proverbs, a "fool" isn't someone who lacks IQ; it's someone who lacks moral and spiritual sanity. Solomon labels this person a fool for a few practical reasons: It is self-destructive: The slanderer thinks they are destroying their enemy, but they are actually destroying their own character. The truth always leaks: You cannot sustainably fake love. Eventually, the mask slips, the gossip gets back to the person, and the liar's reputation is ruined. Everyone else also realizes, "If they talk about him like that when he leaves, they probably talk about me the same way." It avoids the cure: Festering hatred eats away at the container it’s held in. Instead of bringing the offense into the light, praying through it, or seeking reconciliation, the fool chooses to live a double life of fake smiles and quiet sabotage. Takeaway; This proverb is a call to radical transparency and emotional health. If there is friction or dislike in our hearts toward someone, the wise response isn't to paste on a fake smile or text a mutual friend to vent; it’s to deal with the root of that hatred before God, choosing forgiveness over deceit.

Dear Father, I once felt offended after coming across a place called “Home for Motherless and Abandoned Children.” Could they not have found another name? Or do we need to build labels around the condition of children simply because we wish to convey a message? I wondered why we attach demeaning labels to the poor, and at the same time, idolize the rich. Are our values built around wealth and stability rather than humanity? Today I came across a passage that says: “Suppose a man comes into your meeting wearing a gold ring and fine clothes, and a poor man in filthy old clothes also comes in. If you show special attention to the man wearing fine clothes, have you not discriminated among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts?” I believe we have yet to come to terms with the vast extent to which discrimination applies. First, the mindset behind naming a place “Home for Motherless and Abandoned Children” is not entirely for the sake of recognition, as we may believe. If we were to name such places “chosen” or “great,” that is exactly how they would come to be recognized. This mindset often leaves little room for creativity in the way we serve the poor, making haphazard modes of operation seem customary. Could we not do better? Should a driver be honored less because of his financial condition? We do not seem to realize that honor is not always the mindset behind how differently we treat people, discrimination is. Should it be status that governs the way we treat others, or our humanity? #LettertoGod #humanity #labels #wealth #discrimination

Dear Father, I once felt offended after coming across a place called “Home for Motherless and Abandoned Children.” Could they not have found another name? Or do we need to build labels around the condition of children simply because we wish to convey a message? I wondered why we attach demeaning labels to the poor, and at the same time, idolize the rich. Are our values built around wealth and stability rather than humanity? Today I came across a passage that says: “Suppose a man comes into your meeting wearing a gold ring and fine clothes, and a poor man in filthy old clothes also comes in. If you show special attention to the man wearing fine clothes, have you not discriminated among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts?” I believe we have yet to come to terms with the vast extent to which discrimination applies. First, the mindset behind naming a place “Home for Motherless and Abandoned Children” is not entirely for the sake of recognition, as we may believe. If we were to name such places “chosen” or “great,” that is exactly how they would come to be recognized. This mindset often leaves little room for creativity in the way we serve the poor, making haphazard modes of operation seem customary. Could we not do better? Should a driver be honored less because of his financial condition? We do not seem to realize that honor is not always the mindset behind how differently we treat people, discrimination is. Should it be status that governs the way we treat others, or our humanity? Translations; Slide 1: English Slide 2: French Slide 3: Bengali Slide 4: Hindu Slide 5: Urdu #LettertoGod #humanity #labels #wealth #discrimination

Daily pearls from the shore 🫧 Heritage People are like a goods train, carrying so much inside them but never stopping to offload any of it. Then, one day, everything stops. The mind gives up, stops co-operating with demands. Trauma is still part of everyday life. There are accusations, betrayals, and shame forced onto many of us by families, workplaces, and communities in the form of verbal or physical abuse, gaslighting, etc. It can also project from within us as self-condemnation, self-doubt, and guilt, causing us to live in deep darkness. Regardless of where the toxicity comes from or which mode it uses to attack, it affects the whole being of an individual. And then it translates into labels which we end up attaching to our identities. But is that all it is? “In righteousness you will be established” (Isaiah 54:14) The highest truth about you and me is the righteousness of God for us. That is our identity given through the finished work of Jesus Christ. We, humans, are born into a fallen world. Our beings fall prey to sin and failure. Not only that we blame everything happening wrong to us onto GOD. This is the biggest lie mankind believes. The same God says differently. “Tyranny will be far from you; you will have nothing to fear. Terror will be far removed; it will not come near you. If anyone does attack you, it will not be my doing; whoever attacks you will surrender to you.” (Isaiah 54:14-15) This is a very important fact that the world is missing out on: The knowledge of God, God’s character and love for us. Any harm that occurs has never been directed by GOD. “It will not be my doing” God has safeguarded us against any form of tyranny. It can be a physical or mental attack, but it will not be able to get to you. Even if we find ourselves in depression, anxiety, or a financial crunch, the very assurance helps us reframe our minds that the attacker will be taken far away from us. “TERROR WILL BE FAR REMOVED.” Simply put, you will not be sabotaged by the attack. You will get out of it. People suffering from schizophrenia, bipolar disorders, and similar mental health struggles suffer a different level of fear due to auditory and visual hallucinations. But there is hope and peace in knowing that “YOU WILL HAVE NOTHING TO FEAR.” People living in terror-affected zones suffer huge dread for their lives, but God says, “IT WILL NOT COME NEAR” It further states that if you still experience attacks verbally, physically, or in any other form of accusation or harm, your attacker will not get away with his wrongdoing, but God will make sure “WHOEVER ATTACKS YOU WILL SURRENDER TO YOU.” “No weapon forged against you will prevail, and you will refute every tongue that accuses you. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and this is their vindication from me,” declares the Lord.” (Isaiah 54:17) Whether it is anxiety or depression, failure or sickness, “NO WEAPON FORMED AGAINST YOU SHALL PROSPER.” It will not be able to destroy you. The very knowledge of the fact that the Almighty God declares the ineffectiveness of weapons against you is encouraging. Further, it affirms that any kind of attack on your identity, such as abusive words, labels, calling names, false accusations, malice, gossip, or anything said that might have caused pain, hurt or damage to your reputation, you will condemn “EVERY TONGUE WHICH RISES AGAINST YOU IN JUDGMENT YOU SHALL CONDEMN.” Sin, guilt, shame, or self-condemnation doesn’t have to weigh us down. Knowing your identity in the righteousness of God will help you see yourself through that lens. You would be able to rebuke every attack. You would prove every label a lie. Wear the correct lens, Put on righteousness, You have a heritage with God.