Who I Am in Christ
I am the salt of the earth. Matthew 5:13
I am the light of the world. Matthew 5:14
I am a child of God. John 1:12
I am part of the true vine, a channel of Christ's life. John 15:1,5
I am Christ's friend. John 15:15
I am chosen and appointed by Christ to bear His fruit. John 15:16
I am a slave of righteousness. Romans 6:18
I am enslaved to God. Romans 6:22
I am a son of God; God is spiritually my Father. Romans 8:14,15; Galatians 3:26; 4:6
I am a joint heir with Christ, sharing His inheritance with Him. Romans 8:17
I am a temple--a dwelling place--of God. His Spirit and His life dwell in me. 1 Corinthians 3:16; 6:19
I am united to the Lord and am one spirit with Him. 1 Corinthians 6:17
I am a member of Christ's Body. 1 Corinthians 12:27; Ephesians 5:30
I am a new creation. 2 Corinthians 5:17
I am reconciled to God and am a minister of reconciliation. 2 Corinthians 5:18-19
I am a son of God and one in Christ. Galatians 3:26,28
I am an heir of God since I am a son of God. Galatians 4:6,7
I am a saint. Ephesians 1:1; 1 Corinthians1:2; Philippians 1:1; Colossians 1:2
I am God's workmanship--His handiwork--born anew in Christ to do His work. Ephesians 2:10
I am a fellow citizen with the rest of God's family. Ephesians 2:19
I am a prisoner of Christ. Ephesians 3:1; 4:1
I am righteous and holy. Ephesians 4:24
I am a citizen of heaven, seated in heaven right now. Philippians 3:20; Ephesians 2:6
I am hidden with Christ in God. Colossians 3:3
I am an expression of the life of Christ because He is my life. Colossians 3:4
I am chosen of God, holy and dearly loved. Colossians 3:12; 1 Thessalonians 1:4
I am a son of light and not of darkness. 1 Thessalonians 5:5
I am a holy partaker of a heavenly calling. Hebrews 3:1
I am a partaker of Christ; I share in His life. Hebrews 3:14
I am one of God's living stones, being built up in Christ as a spiritual house. 1 Peter 2:5
I am a member of a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God's own possession. 1 Peter 2:9-10
I am an alien and stranger to this world in which I temporarily live. 1 Peter 2:11
I am an enemy of the devil. 1 Peter 5:8
I am a child of God and will resemble Christ when He returns. 1 John 3:1-2
I am born of God, and the evil one--the devil--cannot touch me. 1 John 5:18
I am not the great "I AM" (Exodus 3:14; John 8:24,28,58), but by the grace of God I am what I am. 1 Corinthians 15:10
Since I am in Christ:
by the grace of God I have been justified--completely forgiven and made righteous. Romans 5:1
I died with Christ and died to the power of sin's rule over my life. Romans 6:1-6
I am free forever from condemnation. Romans 8:1
I have been placed into Christ by God's doing. 1 Corinthians 1:30
I have received the Spirit of God into my life that I might know the things freely given to me by God. 1 Corinthians 2:12
I have been given the mind of Christ. 1 Corinthians 2:16
I have been bought with a price; I am not my own; I belong to God. 1 Corinthians 6:19-20
I have been established, anointed and sealed by God in Christ, and I have been given the Holy Spirit as a pledge guaranteeing my inheritance to come. 2 Corinthians 1:21; Ephesians 1:13-14
Since I have died, I no longer live for myself, but for Christ. 2 Corinthians 5:14-15
I have been made righteous. 2 Corinthians 5:21
I have been crucified with Christ and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. The life I am now living is Christ's life. Galatians 2:20
I have been blessed with every spiritual blessing. Ephesians 1:3
I was chosen in Christ before the foundation of the world to be holy and am without blame before Him. Ephesians 1:4
I was predestined--determined by God--to be adopted as God's son. Ephesians 1:5
I have been redeemed and forgiven, and I am a recipient of His lavish grace. Ephesians 1:8
I have been made alive together with Christ. Ephesians 2:5
I have been raised up and seated with Christ in heaven. Ephesians 2:6
I have direct access to God through the Spirit. Ephesians 2:18
I may approach God with boldness, freedom and confidence. Ephesians 3:12
I have been rescued from the domain of satan's rule and transferred to the kingdom of Christ. Colossians 1:13
I have been redeemed and forgiven of all my sins. The debt against me has been cancelled. Colossians 1:14
Christ Himself is in me. Colossians 1:27
I am firmly rooted in Christ and am now being built in Him. Colossians 2:7
I have been spiritually circumcised. My old unregenerate nature has been removed. Colossians 2:11
I have been made complete in Christ. Colossians 2:10
I have been buried, raised and made alive with Christ. Colossians 2:12-13
I died with Christ and I have been raised up with Christ. My life is now hidden with Christ in God. Christ is now my life. Colossians 3:1-4
I have been given a spirit of power, love and self-discipline. 2 Timothy 1:7
I have been saved and set apart according to God's doing. 2 Timothy 1:9; Titus 3:5
Because I am sanctified and am one with the Sanctifier, He is not ashamed to call me brother. Hebrews 2:11
I have the right to come boldly before the throne of God to find mercy and grace in time of need. Hebrews 4:16
I have been given exceedingly great and precious promises by God by which I am a partaker of God's divine nature. 2 Peter 1:4
Twenty Cans of Success
1. Why should I say I can't when the Bible says I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength?
Philippians 4:13
2. Why should I lack when I know that God shall supply all my needs according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus? Philippians 4:19
3. Why should I fear when the Bible says God has not given me a spirit of fear, but of power, love and a sound mind?
2 Timothy 1:7
4. Why should I lack faith to fulfill my calling knowing that God has allotted to me a measure of faith? Romans 12:3
5. Why should I be weak when the Bible says that the Lord is the strength of my life and that I will display strength and t take action because I know God? Psalm 27:1; Daniel 11:32
6. Why should I allow satan supremacy over my life when He that is in me is greater than he that is in the world?
1 John 4:4
7. Why should I accept defeat when the Bible says that God always leads me in triumph? 2 Corinthians 2:14
8. Why should I lack wisdom when Christ became wisdom to me from God and God gives wisdom to me generously when I ask Him for it? 1 Corinthians 1:30; James 1:5
9. Why should I be depressed when I can recall to mind God's lovingkindness, compassion and faithfulness and have hope? Lamentations 3:21-23
10. Why should I worry and fret when I can cast all my anxiety on Christ who cares for me? 1 Peter 5:7
11. Why should I ever be in bondage knowing that there is liberty where the spirit of the Lord is? Galatians 5:1
12. Why should I feel condemned when the Bible says I am not condemned because I am in Christ? Romans 8:1
13. Why should I feel alone when Jesus said He is with me always and He will never leave me nor forsake me?
Matthew 28:20; Hebrews 13:5
14. Why should I feel accursed or feel that I am the victim of bad luck when the Bible says that Christ redeemed me from the curse of the law that I might receive His ..Spirit? Galatians 3:13-14
15. Why should I be discontented when I, like Paul, can learn to be content in all my circumstances? Philippians 4:11
16. Why should I feel worthless when Christ became sin on my behalf that I might become the righteousness of God in him? 2 Corinthians 5:21
17. Why should I have a persecution complex knowing that nobody can be against me when God is for me? Romans 8:31
18. Why should I be confused when God is the author of peace and He gives me knowledge through His indwelling Spirit? 1 Corinthians 14:33; 2:12
19. Why should I feel like a failure when I am a conqueror in all things through Christ? Romans 8:37
20. Why should I let the pressures of life bother me when I can take courage knowing that Jesus has overcome the world and its tribulations? John 16:33
