Because of GRACE, in Christ, I am…

I am the salt of the earth (Mt 5:13)
I am the light of the world (Mt5:14)
I am a child of God (Jn 1:12)
I am part of the vine, a channel of Christ’s life.(Jn 15:1,5)
I am Christ’s friend (Jn 15:15)
I am Chosen and Appointed by Christ to bear his fruit (Jn 15:16)
I am a slave of righteousness(Mt 5:13), (Rom 6:18)
I am enslaved to God (Rom 6:22)
I am a son of God, God is spiritually my Father (Rom 8:14-15; Gal 3:26; Gal 4:6)
I am a joint heir with Christ, sharing his inheritance with him (Rom 8:17)
I am a temple and a dwelling place of God. His spirit and his life dwells in me (1 Cor 3:16; 6:19)
I am united to the Lord and am one spirit with him. (1 Cor 6:17)
I am a member of Christ’s body (1 Cor 12:27; Eph 5:30)
I am a new creation (2 Cor 5:18-19)
I am reconciled to God and am a minister of reconciliation (2 Cor 5:18-19)
I am a son of God and one in Christ (Gal 3:26,28)
I am an heir of God since I am a son of God (Gal 4:6-7)
I am a saint (Eph 1:1; 1 Cor 1:2; Col 1:2)
I am God’s workmanship (Eph 2:10)
I am a fellow citizen with the rest of God’s family(Eph 2:19)
I am a prisoner of Christ (Eph 3:1; 4:1)
I am righteous and holy (Eph 4:24)
I am a citizen of heaven, seated in heaven right now (Phil 3:20;Eph 2:6)
I am hidden with Christ in God (Col 3:3)
I am the expression of the life of Christ because he is my life (Col 3:4)
I am chosen of God, holy and dearly loved(Col 3:12;1 Thess 1:4)
I am a son of light and not of darkness(1 Thess 5:5)
I am a holy partaker of a heavenly calling (Heb 3:1)
I am a partaker of Christ; I share in his life (Heb 3:14)
I am one of God’s living stones, being built up in Christ as a spiritual house (1 Pet 2:9-10)
I am a member of a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession (1 Pet 2:9-10)
I am an alien and stranger to this world in which I temporarily live (1 Pet 2:11)
I am an enemy of the devil (1 Pet 5:8)
I am a child of God and I will resemble Christ when He returns(1 Jn 3:1-2)
I am born of Christ and the evil one, the devil, cannot touch me (1 Jn 5:18)
I am not the great I am (Ex 3:14; Jn 8:24; 28,58) but by the grace of God, I am what I am (1 Cor 15:10)

October 25, 2003 @ Communities of Grace Fellowship