Podcast Episode 159 - Words of Encouragement to Reveal Your True Identity
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Have you ever struggled with seeing your true identity?
When people say nice things about you, do you deflect it or don’t believe it?
Maybe it’s the opposite, and people say hurtful means things to you, and you believed them.
Today is a little different podcast. Have you ever had those days when you just need a pick-me-up? I want to share what God says about you, to you and for you from scripture. These scriptures reveal your true identity.
Today is for you if…
If you deflect or don’t believe the compliments, people try to give you.
If you continually think…I’m not enough, stupid me; I can’t do it; if I were only like so and so, then I could fulfill my God-given purpose.
If you’re ready to truly discover who you are or just need a pick-me-up because you’re feeling down, today is your day, my friend.
Who would know best we are than our Creator, our Heavenly Father?
So here are scriptures that tell you what your Father says about you and reveal who you truly are.
Speak these truths to Renew your mind to your true identity. Put them on sticky notes or 3 x 5 cards around the house to continually remind yourself.
Father says I am knit together in my mother’s womb. I am fearfully and wonderfully made (Psalm 139:13-14).
Father says His thoughts are of peace and not of evil toward me, to give me a future and a hope (Jeremiah 29:11).
Father says I am His workmanship (masterpiece), created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that I should walk in them (Ephesians 2:10).
Father says I have received a gift, minister it to others, as a good steward of the manifold grace of God (1 Peter 4:10-11).
Father says I have not received a spirit that makes me a fearful slave. Instead, I received God's Spirit when He adopted me as his own child. Now I call him, "Abba, Father.” (Romans 8:15). (Abba means daddy or papa. He’s your Daddy Father.)
Father says He has not given me a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind. (2 Timothy 1:7).
Father says I am complete in Him Who is the Head of all principality and power (Colossians 2:10).
Father says I am alive with Christ (Ephesians 2:5).
Father says I am free from the law of sin and death (Romans 8:2).
Father says I am far from oppression, and fear does not come near me (Isaiah 54:14).
Father says I am born of God, and the evil one does not touch me (1 John 5:18).
Father says I am holy and without blame before Him in love (Ephesians 1:4; 1 Peter 1:16).
Father says I have the mind of Christ (1 Corinthians 2:16; Philippians 2:5).
Father says I have the peace of God that passes all understanding (Philippians 4:7).
Father says I have the Greater One living in me; greater is He Who is in me than he that is in the world (1 John 4:4).
Father says I have received the gift of righteousness and reign as a king (that goes for you too, ladies) in life by Jesus Christ (Romans 5:17).
Father says I have received the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Jesus, the eyes of my understanding being enlightened (Ephesians 1:17-18).
Father says I have received the power of the Holy Spirit to lay hands on the sick and see them recover, to cast out demons, to speak with new tongues. I have power over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means harm me (Mark 16:17-18; Luke 10:17-19).
Father says I have put off the old man and have put on the new man, which is renewed in the knowledge after the image of Him Who created me (Colossians 3:9-10).
Father says I have given, and it is given to me; good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over, men give into my bosom (Luke 6:38).
Father says I have no lack for my God supplies all of my needs according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus (Philippians 4:19).
Father says I quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one with my shield of faith (Ephesians 6:16).
Father says I can do all things through Christ Jesus (Philippians 4:13).
Father says I show forth the praises of God Who has called me out of darkness into His marvelous light (1 Peter 2:9).
Father says I am God’s child for I am born again of the incorruptible seed of the Word of God (1 Peter 1:23).
Father says I am a new creature in Christ; old things are passed away; all things are new (2 Corinthians 5:17).
Father says I am a spirit being alive to God (Romans 6:11; 1 Thessalonians 5:23).
Father says I am a believer, and the light of the Gospel shines in my mind (2 Corinthians 4:4).
Father says I am a doer of the Word and blessed in my actions (James 1:22, 25).
Father says I am a joint-heir with Christ (Romans 8:17).
Father says I am more than a conqueror through Him Who loves me (Romans 8:37).
Father says I am an overcomer by the blood of the Lamb and the word of my testimony (Revelation 12:11).
Father says I am a partaker of His divine nature (2 Peter 1:3-4).
Father says I am an ambassador for Christ (2 Corinthians 5:20).
Father says I am a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a purchased people (1 Peter 2:9).
Father says I am the righteousness of God in Jesus Christ (2 Corinthians 6:19).
Father says I am the temple of the Holy Spirit; I am not my own (1 Corinthians 6:19).
Father says I am the head and not the tail; I am above only and not beneath (Deuteronomy 28:13).
Father says I am the light of the world (Matthew 5:14).
Father says I am His elect, full of mercy, kindness, humility, and long-suffering (Romans 8:33); Colossians 3:12).
Father says I am forgiven of all my sins and washed in the Blood (Ephesians 1:7).
Father says I am delivered from the power of darkness and translated into God’s kingdom (Colossians 1:13).
Father says I am redeemed from the curse of sin, sickness, and poverty (Deuteronomy 28:15-68; Galatians 3:13).
Father says I am firmly rooted, built up, established in my faith and overflowing with gratitude (Colossians 2:7).
Father says I am called of God to be the voice of His praise (Psalm 66:8; 2 Timothy 1:9).
Father says I am healed by the stripes of Jesus (Isaiah 53:5; 1 Peter 2:24).
Father says I am raised up with Christ and seated in heavenly places (Ephesians 2:6; Colossians 2:12).
Father says I am greatly loved by God (Romans 1:7; Ephesians 2:4; Colossians 3:12; 1 Thessalonians 1:4).
Father says I am strengthened with all might according to His glorious power (Colossians 1:11).
Father says I am submitted to God, and the devil flees from me because I resist him in the Name of Jesus (James 4:7).
Father says I press on toward the goal to win the prize to which God in Christ Jesus is calling us upward (Philippians 3:14).
Father says it is not I who live, but Christ lives in me (Galatians 2:20).
For in him we live, and move, and have our being (Acts 17:28a)
Rest in your Father and remind yourself of who you really are.
He is our foundation and our strength.