True Identity
"Lies We Believe About Ourselves -- If we’re honest with ourselves, we often feel insecure. Those who hide it best often feel it most. But our insecurity is an invitation from God to escape the danger of false beliefs about who we are and find true peace in who he is. Our true Identity as a Gift from God -- At the heart of what it means to be a Christian is to receive a new identity. In Jesus, we do not lose our true selves, but we become our true selves, only in him." (Desiring God)
"The truest thing about you is what GOD says about you! So many Christians believe lies because they don't realize what God says about them." (Josh McDowell)
80 verses
Ward Schmeidel
Aug. 8, 2020
English
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1 Corinthians 1:30NIV
40-I am foolish vs. wise
It is because of him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God—that is, our righteousness, holiness and redemption.
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1 Corinthians 6:11NIV
65-I am unwanted vs. chosen
And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
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1 Corinthians 6:19-20NIV
10-I am unworthy vs. worthy
Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own;
you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies. -
1 John 1:4NIV
60-I am depressed vs. filled with Joy
We write this to make our joy complete.
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1 John 2:20-21NIV
40-I am foolish vs. wise
But you have an anointing from the Holy One, and all of you know the truth.
I do not write to you because you do not know the truth, but because you do know it and because no lie comes from the truth. -
1 John 2:27NIV
40-I am foolish vs. wise
As for you, the anointing you received from him remains in you, and you do not need anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about all things and as that anointing is real, not counterfeit—just as it has taught you, remain in him.
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1 John 3:1NIV
01-I am unlovable vs. very loved
1 See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him.
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1 John 3:2NIV
55-I don't fit in vs. belong
Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when Christ appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.
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1 John 4:10NIV
01-I am unlovable vs. very loved
This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.
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1 John 4:18NIV
25-I am fearful vs. peaceful
There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.
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1 John 4:4NIV
95-I align with darkness vs. light
You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.
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1 John 5:14NIV
70-I am timid vs. confident
This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.
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1 John 5:14-15NIV
90-I am far from vs. close to God
This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.
And if we know that he hears us—whatever we ask—we know that we have what we asked of him. -
1 John 5:4NIV
20-I am a failure vs. victorious
for everyone born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world, even our faith.
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1 Peter 1:3NIV
75-I am hopeless vs. hopeful
Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
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1 Peter 2:5NIV
90-I am far from vs. close to God
you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
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1 Peter 2:9NIV
90-I am far from vs. close to God
But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.
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1 Peter 2:9NIV
65-I am unwanted vs. chosen
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1 Peter 5:7NIV
30-I am anxious vs. content
Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you.
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2 Corinthians 12:9NIV
15-I am inadequate vs. adequate
But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me.
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2 Corinthians 12:9-10NIV
35-I am weak vs. strong
But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me.
That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong. -
2 Corinthians 2:14NIV
15-I am inadequate vs. adequate
But thanks be to God, who always leads us as captives in Christ’s triumphal procession and uses us to spread the aroma of the knowledge of him everywhere.
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2 Corinthians 3:17NIV
45-I am in bondage vs. free
Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.
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2 Corinthians 3:5-6NIV
15-I am inadequate vs. adequate
Not that we are competent in ourselves to claim anything for ourselves, but our competence comes from God.
He has made us competent as ministers of a new covenant—not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life. -
2 Corinthians 5:21NIV
10-I am unworthy vs. worthy
God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
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2 Timothy 1:7NIV
25-I am fearful vs. peaceful
For the Spirit God gave us does not make us timid, but gives us power, love and self-discipline.
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Acts 1:8NIV
35-I am weak vs. strong
But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”
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Colossians 1:13NIV
95-I align with darkness vs. light
For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves,
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Colossians 1:14NIV
50-I feel guilty vs. I am forgiven
in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.
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Colossians 1:26-27NIV
75-I am hopeless vs. hopeful
the mystery that has been kept hidden for ages and generations, but is now disclosed to the Lord’s people.
To them God has chosen to make known among the Gentiles the glorious riches of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory. -
Ephesians 1:19NIV
35-I am weak vs. strong
and his incomparably great power for us who believe. That power is the same as the mighty strength
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Ephesians 1:3-6NIV
05-I am unacceptable vs. accepted
Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ.
For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love
he predestined us for adoption to sonship through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will—
to the praise of his glorious grace, which he has freely given us in the One he loves. -
Ephesians 1:7NIV
50-I feel guilty vs. I am forgiven
In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God’s grace
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Ephesians 2:13NIV
50-I feel guilty vs. I am forgiven
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Ephesians 2:18NIV
90-I am far from vs. close to God
For through him we both have access to the Father by one Spirit.
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Ephesians 2:4-6NIV
01-I am unlovable vs. very loved
4 But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy,
5 made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved.
6 And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, -
Ephesians 3:12NIV
70-I am timid vs. confident
In him and through faith in him we may approach God with freedom and confidence.
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Ephesians 3:16NIV
35-I am weak vs. strong
I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being,
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Galatians 4:5-7NIV
55-I don't fit in vs. belong
to redeem those under the law, that we might receive adoption to sonship.
Because you are his sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, the Spirit who calls out, “Abba, Father.”
So you are no longer a slave, but God’s child; and since you are his child, God has made you also an heir. -
Galatians 5:1NIV
45-I am in bondage vs. free
It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.
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Galatians 5:13NIV
45-I am in bondage vs. free
You, my brothers and sisters, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the flesh; rather, serve one another humbly in love.
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Hebrews 10:19NIV
70-I am timid vs. confident
Therefore, brothers and sisters, since we have confidence to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus,
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Hebrews 13:5NIV
85-I am alone vs. never alone
Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, because God has said,
“Never will I leave you;
never will I forsake you.” -
Hebrews 4:14-16NIV
90-I am far from vs. close to God
Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has ascended into heaven, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold firmly to the faith we profess.
For we do not have a high priest who is unable to empathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are—yet he did not sin.
Let us then approach God’s throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need. -
James 1:5NIV
40-I am foolish vs. wise
If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to you.
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John 15:11NIV
60-I am depressed vs. filled with Joy
I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete.
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John 15:15NIV
40-I am foolish vs. wise
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.
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John 15:15-16NIV
01-I am unacceptable vs. accepted
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.
You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit—fruit that will last—and so that whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you. -
John 15:16NIV
65-I am unwanted vs. chosen
You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit—fruit that will last—and so that whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you.
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John 15:9NIV
01-I am unlovable vs. very loved
9 “As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love.
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