my people

The word “my” indicates possession—God says that we belong to Him. We are not strangers or even distant relatives, but His children, His beloved, His most treasured ones. We need to understand who we are in Christ. The Bible is full of descriptions of who God says we are. One of the enemy’s favorite strategies is to tell us lies about ourselves. If he can keep us thinking we are unworthy, unqualified, unwanted, then we will be ineffective. If we know and believe and live in the reality of what God says about us, we become dangerous to the Kingdom of darkness, and powerful in the Kingdom of God.

Meditate today on who God says you are. Here are a few Scriptures to get you started . . . I challenge you to go on a treasure hunt and see what else God says about you in the Bible—you’ll be amazed and delighted!

• “I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you.” (John 15:15)

• “For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” (Romans 8:38—39)

• “Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit lives in you?” (1 Corinthians 3:16)

Prayer: Father, thank You for calling me friend, thank You that nothing can separate me from Your love, thank You Holy Spirit that You live in me. Help me to know and believe and live in the reality of who You say that I am. I want to be all that You created me to be and do all that You intend for me to do. Have Your way in me so You can have Your way through me, for the glory of Your name! In Jesus’ name, Amen.