One does not serve God to gain his acceptance, and we are accepted and therefore, we serve Him. Nor follow God to be loved, we are loved, and therefore we follow Him.
This makes it clear that what we do, does not determine who we are, but who we are determines what we do. “Beloved, now we are the sons of God” (1 Jn 3:2).
- I have been justified – forgiven and made righteous (Romans 5:1).
- I died with Christ and died to the dominion of sin over my life (Romans 6:1-6).
- I am free forever from condemnation (Romans 8:1).
- I am in Christ by what God did (1 Corinthians 1:30).
- I received the Spirit of God in my life that I may know the things God has freely given me (1 Corinthians 2:12).
- I have the mind of Christ (1 Corinthians 2:16).
- I was bought for a price, I do not belong to myself, I belong to God (1 Cor 6:19-20).
- I was created, anointed and sealed by God in Christ, and He gave me the Holy Spirit as a guarantee of the promise for the inheritance to come (2 Corinthians 1:21, Ephesians 1:13-14).
Since I died, I do not live for me, I live for Christ (2 Corinthians 5:14-15). - Since I died, I do not live for me, I live for Christ (2 Corinthians 5:14-15).
- I was made righteous (2 Corinthians 5:21).
- I was crucified with Christ and He lives in me. The life I live is Christ’s (Galatians 2:20).
- I am blessed with every spiritual blessing (Ephesians 1:3).
- God chose me before the foundation of the world to be holy and blameless before Him (Ephesians 1:14).
- I was predestined by God and adopted as his son/daughter (Ephesians 1: 5).
- I have been redeemed and forgiven, I am receiving from His abundant grace (Ephesians 1:17).
- I am alive in with Christ (Ephesians 2:5).
- God chose me and made me sit next to Him in heaven (Ephesians 2:6).
- I have direct access to God through the Spirit (Ephesians 2:18).
- I have access to God freely and with confidence (Ephesians 3:12).
- I was rescued from the dominion of Satan and brought into the kingdom of Christ (Colossians 1:13).
- I have been redeemed and forgiven of my sins. My debt was canceled (Colossians 1:14).
- Christ himself lives in me (Colossians 1:27).
- I am rooted and built up in Christ (Colossians 2:7).
- I am complete in Christ (Colossians 2:10).
- I was circumcised spiritually (Colossians 2:11).
- I was buried, resurrected and now I live in Christ (Colossians 2:12,13).
- I died with Christ and resurrected with Him. My life is hidden with Christ. He is my life (Colossians 3:1,4).
- I have a spirit of power, love and self-control (2 Timothy 1:7).
- I was saved and set apart by what God did. (2 Timothy 1:9, Titus 3:5).
- Because I am sanctified and one who sanctifies, He is not ashamed to call me brother (Hebrews 2:11).
- I have the right to approach the throne of grace and find mercy in bad times (Hebrews 4:16).
- God gave me great grace and precious promises that I may partake in His divine nature (2 Peter 1:4).
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