Posts Tagged ‘peace’
Our Identity In Christ
Posted on: June 23, 2013
When we feel down or discouraged with life, remembering who we are in Christ helps bring us back up to a better emotional state. Here is a list of verses and reasons we can experience joy and contentment even if our emotions are telling us different today.
Who am I in Christ?
I am Significant
- I am raised and seated with Christ in the heavenly realm (Eph. 2:6)
- I am the salt and light of the world (Matt. 5:16)
- I am chosen and appointed to bear fruit (Jn. 15:16)
- I am God’s temple (1 Cor. 3:16)
- I am a new creation (2 Cor. 5:17)
- I am God’s workmanship (Eph. 2:10)
- I can approach Christ with freedom and confidence (Eph. 3:12)
- I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me (Phil. 4:13)
- I have authority over all the power of the enemy (Luke 10:18)
I am Secure
- I cannot be separated from the love of God (Rom. 8:35)
- Christ, the hope of glory, lives in me (Col. 1:27)
- I am born of God and the evil one cannot touch me (1 John 5:18)
- I am confident that God has begun a good work in me. He will perfect it. (Phil. 1:6)
- I am assured all things work together for good (Rom. 8:28)
- I am free forever from condemnation (Rom. 8:1)
I am accepted and loved
- I am God’s child (Jn. 1:12)
- I am the apple of His eye (Zech. 2:8)
- I am loved with an everlasting love (Jer. 31:3)
- I am Jesus’ friend (Jn. 15:15)
- I have been made complete in Christ (Col. 2:10)
- I am forgiven of all my sins, the debt against me is cancelled (Col. 1:14)
- I have direct access to God through the Holy Spirit (Eph. 2:18)
I’m Still Here
Posted on: January 4, 2013
If I don’t have any other testimony, I have this…”I’m still here”.
This past year has brought many struggles, much confusion but also revelation. Much of the bad stuff was of my own doing, making poor choices and getting myself in trouble.
Once again God saved me from myself. God’s love for me blows my mind really.
You know the verse that says, “pray for your enemies”? I tried this with my boss. Granted, my boss really isn’t my enemy but sometimes the way he treats me it feels like he is. He can be pretty brutal with his words. And I can have a pretty bad attitude when it comes to someone verbally attacking me, or rather I “perceive” it as an attack. I was becoming pretty miserable and hating going to work every day. I DREADED it when I saw my boss’s car when I pulled up so I would sit in my car for a few minutes before every shift and ask God to help me get through my shift without getting upset, or storming out, or getting a bad attitude, and I would ask God to keep me tough and help me get through it biting my tongue, help me, help me………..
And then one day I got a smack upside the head!! The Holy Spirit said flat out, “Michele, you are praying the wrong prayer”. You should be praying for your boss. So I listened and started praying for my boss. I prayed with sincerity and that’s when things started to change. He wasn’t as rude and nasty to me like he usually was. He wasn’t constantly down my back about stuff. It changed!! or was it me who changed?
All I can say is the Lord is an amazing and wonderful God. He takes my breathe away. In everything I do I want to bring glory to Him. Through my prayers, through my mistakes, through my job, and through my daily life I praise Him.
The Knowability of God
Posted on: July 28, 2012
I just started taking a course on Systematic Theology. This is something that I have been wanting to do for a long time and I am excited to say I have started it. I just finished reading from a book titled, “Bible Doctrine”, by Wayne Grudem. In the fourth chapter, he speaks about The Knowability of God.
It is so interesting that I wanted to share with you a few things I read about this topic.
- We can never fully understand God. God in infinite, we are limited.
- We can never fully understand any single thing about God; His greatness, His wisdom, His understanding, His knowledge, etc.
- We will never be able to know “too much” about God.
- We will never run out of things to learn about God.
The source of our joy and sense of importance ought to come not from our abilities or possessions, but from the fact that we know God. Jeremiah 9:23-24
God bless you all!
A little about me........my name is Michele and I am a born-again Christian. I was saved as a teenager and graduated from a Christian high school. I am a mother of one son who is the world to me. Despite my upbringing, later in life I fell into a life of self destruction which led me down many dark paths. I am a recovering addict and alcoholic and I have a great passion for Christ and His amazing power to heal even the worst cases. I am living proof of the miracle of God's power to change your life and way of thinking. Nothing is impossible with God. 
By His Grace 