Goodness . The constant goodness of God. The calm of life has been to a quicker step this month of January. Extreme joyful highs, and extreme soul wrenching transformations. The beauty of seeing a fearful student step out in faith. My heart, mind, and feet have been on the go go go. I enjoy it, I'm thankful.
So right now I'm stopping - slowing down the record player to reminisce on the first month of 2013. The students. I can't express how thrilled I am they are here. It has been such a ride - I can hardly believe I've only known these radical life changers for merely three weeks. Maybe since I had been processing their applications, calling, and emailing a number of them four months prior- I feel like I've know them much longer. They are a unique group of Jesus followers - passionately in love with Jesus. Seeking truth. Seeking identity. Seeking God's voice. I am humbled to be running alongside this team of 51 God-picked students and having my 19 fellow staff family.
Outreach . The excitement. The nerves. The preparations. The relationships. The faith. The prayer. March 27 anticipation. A closed nation. Therefore I cannot post anywhere the location in which I will be leading a team. But if you'd like to know - you can send me a private message and I will gladly tell you so you can keep us in your prayers. The students recently found out which of the ten outreach locations they will be going on, who their team members are, are their outreach leaders. It is so fun to be in our outreach teams now - let the bonding begin. I have five students (4 girls and 1 boy) along with my trusty co-leader/little brother-like friend, Caleb.
Revelation . Who are you? Not your name. Not your calling. Not prophetic words. Not what you do. Not your gifts. Not your family.
It's time we sons and daughters of Christ know our identity. I mean - who are you really. Are you finding yourself in a bit of an identity crisis? I did.
David Gava came and taught in our school last week and he brought these truths of who The Lord says we are straight from The Word. Below I have them listed. This is profound truth and it removes every lie about what the devil says about you because the truth sets you free from every lie.
I advise printing them out and declaring these truths over yourself daily!
Quotes . in relevance to the identity heart-lesson.
"If you don't know who you are - you will always compete with the person next to you."
"If you don't know your identity - it affect what you think about God."
"To think that we can find our identity, purpose, and meaning in life apart from God is the deception of sin." -Diane Kurtnbach
"If you see yourself as your sin - than your sin has become an idol."
"When we find out who God is - we find out who we are."
"God speaks to the potential He sees in you."
"Christ did not die for a denomination, but for a person."
"'How' is never a question we should ask God, that's His business - not ours."
Identity .
· I am Redeemed (Rev 5:9)
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I am bought with a price (1 Cor 6:20)
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I am Blood bought (1 Pet 1:19, Rev 5:9)
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I am valuable to God (Mt 10:31)
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I am one in which God has an inheritance (Eph
1:18)
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I am reconciled to God (2 Cor 5:18)
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I am made clean (Jn 13:10)
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I am saved by the Gospel (1 Cor 15:2)
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I am born again of incorruptible seed (1 Peter
1:23)
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I am a new creation (2 Cor 5:17)
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I am in Christ Jesus (1 Corinthians 1:30)
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I am complete in Him (Col 2:10)
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I am free from the control of man (1 Cor 9:19)
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I am free from sin (Romans 6:18,22)
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I am free from the law of sin and death
(Romans 8:2)
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I am free from the curse of the law (Galatians
3:13)
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I am free indeed (John 8:32-36)
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I am called according to His purpose (Rom
8:30)
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I am called into the fellowship of His Son (1
Cor 1:9)
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I am called to peace (1 Cor 7:15)
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I am called to liberty (Gal 5:13)
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I am called to His eternal glory (1 Peter
5:10)
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I am God's field (1 Cor 3:9)
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I am God's building (1 Cor 3:9)
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I am a branch connected into the Vine Jesus
Christ and His life flows through me (John 15:5)
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I am healed from every infirmity (1 Peter
2;24, Isaiah 53:5)
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I am immune from every sickness and disease
(Ex 23:25, Deut 7:15)
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I am an epistle of Christ, written not with
ink but by the Spirit of the living God (2 Corinthians 3:3)
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I am Christ's (1 Cor 3:23)
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I am the Friend of God (Jn 15:15)
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I am a servant of God (1 Cor 9:19)
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I am a part of the Body of Christ (1 Cor
12:27)
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I am one of the saints in Christ Jesus. (Romans 1:6, Galatians
3:28)
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I am a fellow citizen with all the saints in
the Kingdom of God (Eph 2:19)
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I am the temple of the Lord and the Holy
Spirit dwells within me (1 Cor 3:16, 6:19, 2 Cor 6:16, John 14:7)
· I
am Abraham's seed (Galatians 3:29)
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I am an heir according to the promises made to
Abraham. (Galatians
3:29)
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I am part of a chosen generation (1 Peter 2:9)
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I am a member of a royal priesthood (1 Peter
2:9)
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I am a citizen of a holy nation (1 Peter 2:9)
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I am one of His own special people (1 Peter
2:9)
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I am an heir of God a joint heir with Jesus
Christ (Gal 4:7)
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I am member of the household of God (Eph 2:19)
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I am a child of the most high God (Rom 8:16,
Gal 3:26, Gal 4:7)
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I am a child of light (Ephesians 5:8, 1 Thess
5:8)
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I am a child of the day (1 Thess 5:8)
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I am a proclaimer of the praises of Him who
called me out of darkness into His marvelous light (1 Peter 2:9)
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I am light in the Lord. (Eph 5:8)
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I am the light of the world (Matt 5:14)
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I am the salt of the earth (Matt 5:13)
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I am blessed in the city and in the country
(Deut 28:3)
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I am the Father/Mother of blessed children
(Deut 28:4)
· I
am blessed in all I lay my hands to (Deut 28:4-5,8)
· I
am blessed when I come in and when I go out (Deut 28:6)
· I
am invincible before my enemies (Deut 28:7)
· I
am the head and not the tail (Deut 28:13)
· I
am above and not beneath (Deut 28:13)
· I am a lender not a borrower (Deut 15:6, 28:12)
· I
am strong in the Lord (1 John 2:14)
· I
am one in whom the word of God abides (1 John 2:14)
· I
am one who has overcome the wicked one (1 John 2:14)
· I
am rich in Him (Romans 8:32, Rev 2:9)
· I am gifted with powerful gifts from the Holy
Ghost (1 Cor 12:4-11)
· I
am a believer in Jesus Christ therefore I am one who casts out demons in His
Name (Mark 16:17)
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I
am one who speaks with new tongues (Mark 16:17)
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I
am one who has power over serpents (Mark 16:18)
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I
am one who cannot be poisoned (Mark 16:18)
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I
am one who lays hands on the sick, so that they will recover (Mark 16:18)
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I
am one who loves (Gal 5:22, 1 John 4:16)
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I
am one who has joy (Gal 5:22, John 15:11)
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I
am one who has peace (Gal 5:22, John 14:27)
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I
am one who has patience (Gal 5:22)
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I
am one who has kindness (Gal 5:22)
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I
am one who has goodness (Gal 5:22)
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I
am one who has faith (Gal 5:22)
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I am one who has gentleness (Gal 5:23)
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I
am one who has self-control (Gal 5:23)
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I
am one who has all the fruit of the Spirit (Gal 5:22,23)
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I
am one who has the mind of Christ (1 Cor 2:16)
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I
am led by the Spirit of God (Gal 5:18)
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I am chosen (1 Cor 1:27,28, James 2:5)
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I
am a disciple (John 8:31)
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I
am a priest (1 Peter 2:9, Rev 1:6)
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I
am a king (Rev 1:6)
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I
am an ambassador for Christ (1 Cor 5:20)
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I
am an intercessor who stands in the gap (Ezek 22:30)
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I
am a watchman on the wall (Ezek 3:17)
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I
am baptized in the Holy Spirit (Acts 2:4)
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I
am endued with power from on high (Luke 24:49)
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I
am one who has overcome (1 Jn 4:4)
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I
am one who has been freely given all things through Christ (Rom 8:32, 1 Cor
3:21)
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I
am one who can do all things through Christ who strengthens me (Phil 4:13)
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I
am one God always leads in triumph in Christ (2 Cor 2:14)
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I
am one God gives the victory to through our Lord Jesus Christ (1 Cor 15:57)
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I
am one who has within him the One who is greater than he that is in the world. (1 Jn 4:4)
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I
am one who treads upon the lion and the cobra, the young lion and the serpent I
trample underfoot (Ps 91:13)
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I
am one who can run through a troop and leap over a wall (Ps 18:29)
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I
am a soldier of Christ (2 Tim 2:3-4)
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I
am a royal horse in the day of battle (Zech 10:3)
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I
am fully armed with weapons that are mighty through God (2 Cor 10:5)
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I
am more than a conqueror (Rom 8:37)
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I
am able to pull down strongholds (2 Cor 10:5)
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I
am able to cast down imaginations and every high lofty thing that exalts itself
against the knowledge of God (2 Cor 10:5)
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I
am able to bring into captivity every thought (2 Cor 10:5)
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I
am a stranger to this world, a pilgrim just passing through (Heb 11:13)
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I
am a witness (1 Thess 2:10)
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I am bold (2 Cor 11:21)
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I
am the Bride of Jesus Christ (Rev 21:2-10)
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I
am jealous for the saints with a godly jealousy. (2 Corinthians 11:2)
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I
am a minister of the Gospel of Christ (2 Cor 11:23, Romans 1:16)
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I
am not my own (1 Cor 6:19)
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I am not of this world (John 15:9)
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I
am not under the law (Gal 5:18)
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I
am not a slave (Gal 4:7)
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I
am not inferior (Job 13:2)
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I
am not alone (John 8:16, 16:32)
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I
am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ (Rom 1:16)
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I
am not ashamed of who I am (2 Tim 1:12)
