The Identity Shift That Transforms Your Life

Do you remember the first time you learned that you have a spirit? You didn’t arrive at that conclusion on your own. Someone told you, you read it in a book, heard it in a teaching, or watched a video that explained we are spirit, soul, and body—created in God’s image, designed to live from the inside out.

Your spirit is unseen, yet it is the truest part of who you are. You can’t hear it, taste it, touch it, or smell it. None of our five senses can discover the spirit within us. We had to be told. And that’s exactly what the Bible does—it reveals who we really are. Scripture tells us not only that we have a spirit, but why: because God is Spirit (John 4:24), and we were created to reflect Him.

So pause and consider this: If our five senses can’t even detect that we have a spirit, why do we so often try to believe God and define ourselves based on what we can see and feel?

Pause.

We need to stop seeing ourselves as human beings first—limited to sight, sound, logic, and physical experience—and start seeing ourselves as spiritual beings who are in Christ. That shift isn’t behavioral; it’s identity-based. And what does that require? Faith.

Faith is God’s love language.

When we believe in what we cannot see, we are living from our true identity. Hebrews 11:1 tells us that faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. And 2 Corinthians 5:7 reminds us, “We walk by faith, not by sight”. In other words, we don’t live from what we see—we live from who we are in Him.

Listen to this wisdom from Andrew Wommack:

When we struggle to believe that God’s promises will come to pass, that’s unbelief—but the root of unbelief is a lack of love. Galatians 5:6 says that faith works by love. Love is the driving force behind faith. Remove or diminish love, and faith stops functioning the way it should. Many of us try hard to believe, when what we really need is a greater revelation of God’s love for us. When love is revealed, faith flows naturally.

This truth is echoed beautifully by Dr. Jim Richards:

“The life of God is designed to transform you spiritually, emotionally, and physically. When that happens, every other part of your life changes. This is why John said, ‘I pray above all things that you’ll prosper and be in good health even as your soul prospers.’ Until that change reaches your emotions, it will not affect your body or outer circumstances.”

This matters because identity flows from love. When we don’t fully receive God’s love, we struggle to believe who He says we are. That’s why developing a love relationship with God is essential as we walk out healing, provision, purpose, and our future. Without love, our identity in Christ remains theoretical instead of transformational.

We need logic and intellect to function in this world, but God does not want to be loved—or known—by intellect alone. He wants to be loved by your heart. Christianity is not information-based; it is identity-revealing.

We’ve gathered more information than any generation before us, yet many remain unchanged. We often try to solve life’s problems through knowledge, data, and reasoning, while God is inviting us to let Him heal the heart—because the heart is where identity is formed. Information won’t heal you—identity will.

You cannot love or trust someone without relationship. If you try to love your spouse purely intellectually, the relationship becomes shallow. The same is true with God. His love is big. It’s sacrificial. It requires every part of our being—because we were created to live loved, not just live informed.

Once you experience His love at a deep heart level, something shifts. You begin to see yourself differently. You won’t be the same—because encountering God’s love always reveals your true identity. If you haven't experienced this for yourself, this is an invitation to go deeper with God.

Just give Him whatever you have. He will pour more into you. He is looking for hearts that long for Him—because longing is often the doorway to discovering who we really are.

If something feels missing in your life, it may be God’s love waiting to touch the deepest place in you—the place you hide from others. That’s the place He longs for most, because He wants to heal it and restore it. Identity is healed where love is received. This is an adventure. A journey of love He wants to take you on.

God is meant to be experienced, not just known about. He wants more for you than believing He exists. He wants you to know who you are because He exists—and because you belong to Him. He wants to wrap you in His love. You were made for this.

This isn’t surface-level affection. This is deep calling unto deep. This kind of love is strong. It’s rugged. It covers a multitude of sins and casts them into the sea of forgetfulness. You cannot fail enough to disqualify yourself from God’s love, because your identity is not based on performance; it’s based on sonship.

He loves you at your worst. He loves you on ordinary days. He loves you at your best.

And it is the same love—unchanging, unwavering—because He doesn’t love versions of you; He loves you.

Men—this love is for you too. This is not a “female” message. God created Adam first, and their relationship was one of Father and son, Creator and creation—identity before assignment.

If I, as a woman, can embrace that I am a son of God through sonship, then you, as a man, can embrace that you are the bride of Christ. This isn’t about gender—it’s about identity and relationship. Jesus was strong, courageous, and deeply relational. God is love, and we are created in His image.

We miss out on loving and being loved the way God designed because we guard our hearts. We want control. We want to manage outcomes. But Scripture shows us over and over—doing it our way never works. When people turned back to God, they found themselves again.

One of God’s defining characteristics is His love—a love that covers a multitude of sins. Scripture tells us, “They will know we are Christians by our love.” Yet the church of Laodicea was reprimanded because they had lost their first love. They were active, busy, and informed, but their hearts had grown cold. When love is lost, identity drifts.

We live in a very ego-driven society, and it’s easy for our hearts to drift in the same way. But we must remember: we are more spiritual than physical. The spirit realm existed before the physical realm—and it is more real and powerful than what we see.

That’s why identity matters. We must re-assimilate ourselves as citizens of heaven first, offspring of Yahweh, who is Spirit, life, and peace. Our love, our faith, and our walk with God all flow from that truth. When our hearts are aligned with God’s love, our identity is anchored, and everything else—our actions, our relationships, even our influence in the world follows naturally.

Right now, we are spiritual beings wearing earthly suits. One day, we will be fully transformed into the likeness of Christ. That’s who we are—and who we believe ourselves to be shapes how we live.

Identity matters.

Because what you believe is what you become.