Who We Are in Christ

We need to honor God by believing what HE SAYS!

He truly has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ!

Question is: Do we believe it?  Are we waiting to be worthy of it?
That's not the basis for it. His grace is.

And also who God is.   He's a gracious and all-loving God!
Believing what He says about us AND WALKING in it, GREATLY affects our lives!

Below are 40 truths from the Bible describing various aspects of "Who we are in Christ."

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1. You Are Loved
“The LORD has appeared of old to me, saying: "Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love; Therefore with lovingkindness I have drawn you.”
Jeremiah 31:3 
2. You Are a Child of God
“Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! Therefore the world does not know us, because it did not know Him.”
1 John 3:1
3. You Are Forgiven
“...even as Christ forgave you, so you also must do.”
Colossians 3:13
4. You Are Washed Clean
"Come now, and let us reason together," Says the LORD, "Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; Though they are red like crimson, They shall be as wool.”
Isaiah 1:18 
5. You Are Free
“Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and do not be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.”
Galatians 5:1
6. You Are the Temple of the Holy Spirit
“Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? “For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.”
1 Corinthians 6:19-20
7. You Are Adopted
“For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, "Abba, Father."
Romans 8:15
8. You Are a Co-heir with Christ
 "The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, then heirs -- heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him, that we may also be glorified together.”
Romans 8:16-17 
9. You Are Righteous
“For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.”
2 Corinthians 5:21 
10. You Are a New Creation
 “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.”
2 Corinthians 5:17
11. You Are a Saint
“And such were some of you. But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.”
1 Corinthians 6:11 
12. You Are Set Apart
“But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.”
1 Peter 2:9
13. You Are an Ambassador for Christ
“Now then, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were pleading through us: we implore you on Christ's behalf, be reconciled to God.”
2 Corinthians 5:20 
14. You Are a Co-laborer with God
“For we are God's fellow workers; you are God's field, you are God's building.”  
1 Corinthians 3:9 
15. You Are the Fragrance of Christ
“For we are to God the fragrance of Christ among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing.”
2 Corinthians 2:15 
16. You Are Never Alone
“..for He Himself has said, "I will never leave you nor forsake you."
Hebrew 13:5 .
17. You Are God’s Creative Masterpiece
“For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.”
Ephesians 2:10. You have purpose! 
18. You Are Wonderfully Made
“For You formed my inward parts; You covered me in my mother's womb. I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Marvelous are Your works, and that my soul knows very well.”
Psalm 139:13-14 
19. You Are Complete in Him
“For in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily; and you are complete in Him, who is the head of all principality and power.”
Colossians 2:9 
20. You Are More Than a Conqueror
“Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.”
Romans 8:37 
21. You Are Secure in His Love
 “For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
Romans 8:38-39 
22. Your Name Is in the Lamb’s Book of Life
"Nevertheless do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rather rejoice because your names are written in heaven.”
Luke 10:20 
23. You Have Been Given Great and Precious Promises
“..by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these you may be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.”
2 Peter 1:4 
24. You Have a Prepared Place in Heaven
"In My Father's house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. "And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also.”
John 14:2-3 
25. You Have Been Given the Spirit, Guaranteeing What is to Come
“Now He who establishes us with you in Christ and has anointed us is God, who also has sealed us and given us the Spirit in our hearts as a guarantee.”
2 Corinthians 1:21 
26. You Are Being Transformed From Glory to Glory
“But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord.”
2 Corinthians 3:18 
27. You Will Always be the Object of His Kindness
“..that in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.”
Ephesians 2:7
28. You Cannot Receive Condemnation
“There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.”
Romans 8:1
29. You Are Being Prayed For by Jesus
“Therefore He is also able to save to the uttermost those who come to God through Him, since He always lives to make intercession for them.”
Hebrews 7:25 
30. Jesus Lives His Life Through You
"I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me."
Galatians 2:20 
31. Your True Life and Identity Are Securely Hidden and Protected in Christ
"For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who is our life appears, then you also will appear with Him in glory."
Colossians 3:3-4 
32. You Have Been Freed From the Power of Sin
"Knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of   sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin. For he who has died has been freed from sin."
Romans 6:6-7
33. You Are Chosen, Royal Priests, and His Own Special People
"But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light."
1 Peter 2:9
34. You Are Members of His Body, of His Flesh and of His Bones
"For we are members of His body, of His flesh and of His bones."
Ephesians 5:30
35. He Has Delivered You from the Power of Darkness and Conveyed You Into the Kingdom of the Son
"He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love, in whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins."
Colossians 1:13-14
36. Nothing Can Separate You from God's Love
"For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of   God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord."
Romans 8:38-39
37. God Is FOR you
"What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?"
Romans 8:31-32 
38. Your True Citizenship Is in Heaven
"For our citizenship is in heaven, from which we also eagerly wait for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ."
Philippians 3:20
39. You Are Jesus's Friend
"No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I heard from My Father I have made known to you."
John 15:15
40. We Are Chosen
"You did not choose Me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask the Father in My name He may give you."
John 15:16