Don’t pray like a widow because you are the bride. Don’t live like an orphan when you are a son. Don’t settle for a pauper when you are a princess. God is revealing who you really are, your truest identity that is found only in Him.
Identity in Christ
Dan McCollam
In terms of your heavenly identity, alignment is simply defined as positioning yourself to agree and ally with what God says about you. It’s taking off anything that doesn’t look like the person heaven describes and putting on the things that do.
Winnie Banov
In union with Christ, we can be consciously aware that the person we used to be – our old man, our former nature, our old sinful self – was co-crucified with Christ so that the tyranny of sin has been broken over us once and for all. We are no longer slaves to sin. One nail pierced two hands!
Lysa TerKeurst
The voices of shame and rejection can come at us, but they don’t have to reside in us. God says we are loved. God says we are chosen. God says we’re forever His. And His is the voice we must choose to believe.
William Tyndale
He is our Redeemer, Deliverer, Reconciler, Mediator, Intercessor, Advocate, Attorney, Solicitor, our Hope, Comfort, Shield, Protection, Defender, Strength, Health, Satisfaction and Salvation. His blood, his death, all that he ever did, is ours. And Christ himself, with all that he is or can do, is ours… And God (as great as he is) is mine, with all that he has, through Christ and his purchasing.
Bill Johnson
We work not for his favour but from his favour. In this position, he entrusts us with more of his power and we are naturally changing into His likeness more and more… Our identity sets the tone for all we do in become. Christians who live out of who they really are cannot be crippled by the opinions of others. They don’t work to fit into other people’s expectations, but burn with the realisation of who the Father says they are.
Bob Goff
He’s asking us, “Will you take what you think defines you, leave it behind, and let Me define who you are instead?” The cool thing about taking Jesus up on His offer is that whatever controls you doesn’t anymore. People who used to be obsessed about becoming famous no longer care whether anybody knows their name. People who used to want power are willing to serve. People who used to chase money freely give it away. People who used to beg others for acceptance are now strong enough to give love. When we get our security from Christ, we no longer have to look for it in the world, and that’s a pretty good trade.
David Wilkerson
Are you becoming more sweet-spirited, more like Jesus? Are you looking soberly in the mirror each day and praying, ‘Lord, I want to conform to Your image in every area of my life’? Or has your bitterness taken root, turning into rebellion and hardness of heart? Have you learned to shield yourself from the convicting voice of God’s Spirit?
T.J. Green
You don’t work for your inheritance, your Dad did that already. The Gospel is our great inheritance from our Heavenly Father that we don’t have to work for.
Shawn Bolz
So many times we try to deal with the symptoms and not the roots. We try to deal with our own identity issues by strengthening things that could be the external branches and not the root system. God wants to strengthen your identity which is your root system. Being rooted and grounded in His truth for you.