Christian Healing Ministry - Devotionals

Devotional for July 27, 2026

YOU ARE THE TEMPLE OF GOD

SCRIPTURE READING - 📖 1 Corinthians 3:16

“Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?”

Additional Verses

📖 John 2:12-25; 1 Corinthians 3:9-23; Galatians 2:20-21

When you became a child of God, you received the Spirit of God into your life and this is what makes you a child of God. When God made you into His child, He did not just do that temporarily, but it is something that is really permanent. Because you are His temple because of the presence of His Spirit, it also means that He made you into His Sanctuary. This further means that the Trinity is actually installed in you. When Jesus Christ referred to His body as the temple of God when He said, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up,” you became exactly like Him. This is what it means to be joint heir with Christ. He made us to be like Him in every area. The problem with many of God’s children is lack of information and hence they deprive themselves of what God the Father has freely availed to them as Hosea 4:6a says, “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.” The Apostle Paul who very well understood what it meant to be the temple of God, in Galatians 2:20 boldly declares, “I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me, and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved and gave Himself for me.” You can never make such a declaration unless you have been raised to son-ship of God. Son-ship only comes about when you have the revealed knowledge of who Christ is in your life and also who you are in Christ Jesus. When you surrender yourself to Jesus Christ and for Him to take over your life, it is a declaration of war against the devil and his darkness. Everything about you changes to bring out the light of Christ that has now filled you. There are places where others can go freely, but you cannot go, because you now carry the presence of Jesus Christ where ever you go. Just as a new born baby does not know much about itself or its parents, it is the same with many born again children of God. They are ignorant of who they are as well as being ignorant of who the Father and the LORD Jesus Christ really are. This is because they haven’t taken time to find out from the Word of God. To identify with Christ Jesus is to stand firm as an enemy to Satan but as a victor in Jesus Christ. Paul knew exactly who he was and what it meant to be joint heir with Christ and what it also meant to be a temple of God. I would like to leave you with the following question; “Do you know who you really are?” Alleluia!

Prayer

Dear LORD Jesus Christ, I thank You for paying all my debts and to know that it is no longer I that lives but it is You who lives in me. Therefore I ask that You always remind me that my body is Your temple and that You always dwell in me. Thank You for making my body Your temple in Jesus Christ’s name. Amen.