Encouraging Truths Devotional Series (Day #2)

YOU ARE

VERSE

Created in God’s image

So God created man in His own image; He created him in the image of God; He created them male and female. (Gen 1:27)

Purchased by God

For you were bought at a price … (1 Cor 6:20)

Redeemed

Christ redeemed us from the curse of the Law … (Gal 3:13)

Forgiven

We have redemption in Him through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses … (Eph 1:7)

Eternally secure in God

I give them eternal life, and they will never perish—ever! No one will snatch them out of My hand. My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all. No one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand. (John 10:28-29)

One with Christ

In that day you will know that I am in My Father, you are in Me, and I am in you. (John 14:20)

Citizen of Heaven

…our citizenship is in heaven (Php 3:20)

Worth dying for

But God proves His own love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us! (Rom 5:8)

Adopted into His family

He predestined us to be adopted through Jesus Christ for Himself, according to His favor and will (Eph 1:5)

A child of God

But to all who did receive Him, He gave them the right to be children of God, to those who believe in His name … (John 1:12)

Dear friends, we are God’s children now … (1 John 3:2)

Loved by Jesus the way the Father loves Him

As the Father has loved Me, I have also loved you. (John 15:9)

An heir of God

The Spirit Himself testifies together with our spirit that we are God’s children, and if children, also heirs—heirs of God and coheirs with Christ… (Rom 8:17)

A temple of the Holy Spirit

Don’t you yourselves know that you are God’s sanctuary and that the Spirit of God lives in you? (1 Cor 3:16)

Part of the body of Christ

Now you are the body of Christ, and individual members of it. (1 Cor 12:27)

A new creation

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation… (2 Cor 5:17)

Chosen by God

But you are a chosen race … (1 Pet 2:9)

Priests

But you are … a royal priesthood …  (1 Pet 2:9)

You made them a kingdom and priests to our God, and they will reign on the earth. (Rev 5:10)

Part of a holy nation

But you are … a holy nation … (1 Pet 2:9)

God’s possession

But you are … a people for His possession … (1 Pet 2:9)

Alive with Jesus

But God … made us alive with the Messiah even though we were dead in trespasses. (Eph 2:4-5)

Seated with Jesus in the heavens

…seated us with Him in the heavenly places … (Eph 2:6 – ESV)

Reconciled, holy, faultless, blameless

But now He has reconciled you by His physical body through His death, to present you holy, faultless, and blameless before Him (Col 1:22)

Raised with Jesus by the Father

Having been buried with Him in baptism, you were also raised with Him through faith in the working of God, who raised Him from the dead. (Col 2:12)

Made alive with Jesus and forgiven

He made you alive with Him and forgave us all our trespasses. He erased the certificate of debt, with its obligations, that was against us and opposed to us, and has taken it out of the way by nailing it to the cross.(Col 2:13-14)

Hidden with the Messiah

For you have died, and your life is hidden with the Messiah in God. (Col 3:3)

Crucified with Christ. Now Christ lives in you.

I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. (Gal 2:20)

Crucified to the world and the world to you

The world has been crucified to me through the cross, and I to the world.  (Gal 6:14b)