Jeremiah Johnson Ministries

09/01/2026

Our failures become weapons of hope in God’s hands

09/01/2026

If you are in Christ, you have been given the gift of righteousness. You are right with God—not because of your performance, but because of the perfect obedience of Jesus.

And as you become more convinced of your righteousness in Christ, it changes the way you see everything.

The Bible says:

“The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.” — Proverbs 4:18

Think about David standing before Goliath.

Everybody else saw the size of the giant. David saw the strength of his covenant.

David knew he couldn’t defeat Goliath in his own strength. His confidence wasn’t in himself—it was in the God with whom he had covenant.

That’s why he said, “Who is this uncircumcised Philistine?”

In other words: I have a covenant with the living God, and he doesn’t.

What looked like a terrifying problem to everyone else looked like an opportunity to David.

And God wants that same kind of courage operating in us.

Don’t allow yourself to be carried downstream by the doom, fear, and negativity constantly being projected around you.

Take your stand.

Take a stand for the Kingdom.
Take a stand for your family.
Take a stand for your business.
Take a stand for your finances.
Take a stand for your health.
Take a stand in prayer.

Why can you have courage?

Because in Christ, you have an even better covenant than David had.

The New Covenant is established upon better promises, and its foundation is not your ability to perfectly obey God. Its foundation is Jesus and His perfect obedience.

Our confidence can never be in ourselves.

Jesus is our righteousness.
Jesus is our qualification.
Jesus is our confidence before God.

That is why faith must ultimately be faith in Jesus and what He has accomplished.

We don’t begin by grace and then graduate into self-effort.

We begin by faith, and we finish by faith.
We begin by grace, and we finish by grace.
We begin in the Spirit, and we finish in the Spirit.

The more we stop trying to establish our own righteousness and begin resting in Jesus as our righteousness, the stronger we become in faith.

Paul counted everything he once trusted in through the flesh as loss so that he could gain Christ.

That is maturity.

That is becoming skilled in righteousness.

And when you become established in righteousness, the accusations of the enemy begin to lose their power.

The devil wants you focused on yourself—your failures, your weaknesses, your performance, your shortcomings.

The Gospel turns your eyes back to Jesus.

Jesus is the Hero of the story.

Not your pastor.
Not your worship leader.
Not the person on television.
Not the person behind a microphone.
And certainly not ourselves.

There is one Savior.

His name is Jesus.

He gets all the credit.
He gets all the glory.
He did the work.

So rise up today in the righteousness which is of faith and testify to the success of the cross!

Jesus paid your debt.
Jesus defeated sin.
Jesus rose from the dead.
Jesus gave you His righteousness.

Paid in full.

That’s why we have peace.

Become convinced of it. Let it fill your thinking. Let it shape the way you pray, the way you face adversity, and the way you walk through this world.

Jesus did a good job.

And if you are in Christ:

You are the righteousness of God in Him.

08/31/2026

Silencing the accuser

Joshua and a powerful picture of progress and warfare

Developing faith righteousness so that no weapon formed against you shall prosper

A condemned heart has no faith

The breast plate of righteousness

08/31/2026

08/31/2026

One of the greatest areas we can mature in is becoming skilled in the righteousness of faith.

The enemy is an accuser. He wants to convince you that you are unworthy, dirty, rejected, or not good enough. If you receive those accusations, eventually your own heart begins condemning you—and when your heart condemns you, your confidence toward God suffers.

But the gospel teaches us to become increasingly persuaded that what Jesus did was enough.

Your righteousness before God is not something you produce.

You don’t earn it.
You don’t achieve it.
You receive it by faith.

The thief on the cross is such a beautiful picture of this. He had no opportunity to build a record of good works, yet he did the thing God desired most—he believed in Jesus.

As we become established in righteousness by faith, we gain confidence toward God and greater access into His amazing grace. And grace begins transforming us from the inside out.

God isn’t merely interested in cleaning up the outside of the cup. He wants your heart. He wants to transform your motives so that obedience doesn’t simply come from fear of punishment—it flows from genuine love for Him.

Jesus said, “If you love Me, keep My commandments.”

That is maturity.

The goal isn’t simply better behavior.

The end goal is love.

To genuinely love God.
To genuinely care about people.
To walk in grace.
To live free from fear, condemnation, selfishness, and self-consciousness.

Religion can modify behavior without ever transforming the heart. Legalism may cause someone to “white-knuckle” obedience, but only the goodness and grace of God can purify our motives and teach us to obey from love.

And when accusations come, we learn to condemn the condemner.

The enemy has been judged.

You overcome by the blood of the Lamb and the word of your testimony.

So what is your testimony?

The blood worked.
Jesus succeeded.
I am forgiven.
I am cleansed.
I am righteous in Christ.
I am a child of God.
I have peace with God through Jesus Christ.

This doesn’t mean we refuse responsibility when we miss it. When we sin, we acknowledge it, apologize, repent, and turn away from behavior that doesn’t reflect who we are in Christ.

But we refuse to allow our failures to become our identity.

Our identity is found in Jesus.

The enemy no longer gets to define you by accusation. Jesus defines you by His finished work.

Become persuaded of your righteousness in Christ.

Grow from faith to faith.

Let God replace the internal voice of condemnation with a heart that continually testifies:

THE CROSS WAS A SUCCESS. ❤️

08/30/2026

Understanding God’s timing ❤️

08/29/2026

Call out the gold, not the dirt

08/29/2026

Transactional relationships are not life-giving

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08/29/2026

Your value is not determined by the way you look, how much money you have, what kind of car you drive, the home you live in, how successful your career is, or how many likes and views you get on social media.

Your value is much deeper than that.

One of the beautiful things God wants to do in your life is reveal to you just how valuable you are to Him.

So many unhealthy relationships and destructive behaviors are rooted in looking to other people to tell us what we are worth. But you should never give another human being the authority to determine your value.

Not a boyfriend or girlfriend.
Not a husband or wife.
Not your children.
Not your parents.
Not your pastor.
Not your friends.
Not social media.

When our sense of worth depends on someone else’s approval, we become vulnerable to manipulation, control, codependency, and people-pleasing.

God wants to set us free from that.

He wants us rooted in HIS opinion of us—His love, His grace, His acceptance, and the identity He has given us in Christ.

I love looking at the transformation we see in Mary Magdalene. Scripture tells us that Jesus delivered her from seven demons, and she became a devoted follower of Christ. She was there at the cross when many had scattered, and she was among the very first witnesses of the resurrected Jesus.

Think about that.

A woman whose past could have been used to define her became someone entrusted with announcing the resurrection!

That is restoration.

And we see this same freedom beautifully illustrated in the woman who came into the Pharisee’s house and washed Jesus’ feet with her tears. Everyone in the room had an opinion about her. They knew her reputation. They judged her past.

But she was more conscious of JESUS than she was of their judgment.

That is freedom.

When you become secure in the love of God, the opinions of people lose their power to control you.

You can walk into rooms where people misunderstand you, judge you, remember your past, or try to label you—and still keep your eyes on Jesus.

You don’t have to live with your head hanging down because of yesterday.

Jesus restores dignity.
Jesus restores honor.
Jesus restores innocence.
Jesus restores identity.
Jesus restores worth.

When you truly understand your value, you begin removing things from your life that are beneath what God has called you to.

You establish healthy boundaries.
You stop begging for approval.
You stop allowing manipulation.
You stop building your identity around someone else’s opinion.
You begin seeing yourself through the eyes of Jesus.

And that freedom is not given so we can live selfishly. We are set free so we can LOVE.

“For freedom Christ has set us free.” — Galatians 5:1

“Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.” — 2 Corinthians 3:17

God wants to remove the labels that shame, rejection, poverty, failure, religion, and other people have tried to put on you.

Your past does not determine your value.

People’s opinions do not determine your value.

Your failures do not determine your value.

Find yourself in the eyes of Jesus.

See yourself the way He sees you.

Walk with dignity.
Walk with courage.
Walk with purpose.

Where you have carried shame, God desires to restore honor.

You are deeply loved, greatly valued, and worth what Jesus was willing to give to redeem you.

08/28/2026

Sow energy now, reap energy for the future