WHO I AM IN CHRIST
(Taken
from Neil Anderson's Steps
to Freedom in Christ)
I renounce the lie that I am rejected, unloved, dirty, or shameful.
In Christ I am ACCEPTED.
God says…
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John 1:12. But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name. |
I am God's Child. |
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John 15:15. ...I call you not servants; for the servant knows not what his lord does: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you. |
I am Christ's friend. |
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Romans 5:1. Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. |
I have been justified. (made right) |
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I Corinthians 6:17. But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit. |
I am united with the Lord, and I am one spirit with Him. |
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I Corinthians 6:19-20. Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost, which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's. |
I have been bought with a price. I belong to God. |
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I Corinthians 12:27. Now you are the body of Christ, and members in particular. |
I am a member of Christ's body. |
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Ephesians 1:1. Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, to the saints which are at Ephesus, and to the faithful in Christ Jesus... |
I am a saint. |
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Ephesians 1:5. Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will... |
I have been adopted as God's child. |
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Ephesians 2:18. For through him we ... have access by one Spirit unto the Father. |
I have direct access to God through the Holy Spirit. |
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Colossians 1:14. In (Jesus) we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins. |
I have been redeemed and forgiven of all my sins. |
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Colossians 2:10. And ye are complete in (Jesus), which is the head of all principality and power. |
I am complete in Christ. |
I renounce the lie that I am guilty, unprotected, alone, or abandoned.
In Christ I am SECURE.
God says…
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Romans 8:1,2. There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death. |
I am free forever from condemnation. |
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Romans 8:28. We know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. |
I am assured that all things work together for good. |
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Romans 8:31-34. ...if God be for us, who can be against us? He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifies. Who is he that condemns? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession of us. |
I am free from any condemning charges against me. |
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Romans 8:35-39. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword... No way, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers... shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. |
I cannot be separated from the love of God. |
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II Corinthians 1:21-22. Now he which establishes us with you in Christ, and hath anointed us, is God; who has also sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts. |
I have been established, anointed, and sealed by God. |
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Colossians 3:3. For you are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. |
I am hidden with Christ in God. |
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Philippians 1:6 Being confident of this very thing, that he which has begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ. |
I am confident that the good work that God has begun in me will be perfected. |
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Philippians 3:20. For our (citizenship) is in heaven; from here we also look for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. |
I am a citizen of heaven. |
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II Timothy 1:7 For God has not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind. |
I have not been given a spirit of fear but of power, love and a sound mind. |
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Hebrews 4:16. Let us come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need. |
I can find grace and mercy in time of need. |
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I John 5:18. We know that whosoever is born of God sins not; but he that is begotten of God keeps himself, and that wicked one touches him not. |
I am born of God, and the evil one cannot touch me. |
I renounce the lie that I am worthless, inadequate, helpless or hopeless.
In Christ I am SIGNIFICANT.
God says…
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Matthew 5:13-14. You are the salt of the earth... you are the light of the world. |
I am the salt and light of the earth. |
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John 15:1,5. I am the true vine, and my Father is the (gardener). I am the vine, you are the branches: He that abides in me, and I in him, the same brings forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing. |
I am a branch of the true vine, a channel of His life. |
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John 15:16. You have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever you shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you. |
I have been chosen and appointed to bear fruit. |
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Acts 1:8. You shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you; and you shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth. |
I am a personal witness of Christ's. |
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I Corinthians 3:16. Know ye not that you are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? |
I am God's temple. |
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II Corinthians 5:17-20. Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature; old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. And all things are of God, who... has given to us the ministry or reconciliation... Now we then are ambassadors for Christ. |
I am a minister of reconciliation for God. |
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II Corinthians 6:1. We then, as workers together with (God) beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain. |
I am God's coworker (I Cor. 3:9) |
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Ephesians 2:6. (God) has raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus. |
I am seated with Christ in the heavenly realm. |
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Ephesians 2:10. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God has before ordained that we should walk in them. |
I am God's workmanship. |
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Ephesians 3:12. In (the Lord Jesus Christ) we have boldness and access with confidence by the faith of him. |
I may approach God with freedom and confidence. |
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Philippians 4:13. I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. |
I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. |