God wants us to know that we are far more than what we have been told by Satan and other people. No one has the power to define us but the One Who created us and redeemed us. God takes a lot of time in the Bible to tell us who we are when we become His children through faith in Jesus (John 1:12; I John 5:1). The phrase “in Christ” or “in Him” is used 120 times in the New Testament and refers to how God sees us after we become children of God by believing in Jesus.
Who am I after I come to faith in Jesus?
I am never alone (Deut. 31:6, 8; Isa. 41:10; Matt. 28:20; Heb. 13:5)
I am the apple of my Father’s eye (Ps. 17:8; Matt. 6:26; 10:29-31)
I am a delight to God (Ps. 18:19; Zeph. 3:17)
I am cherished and loved by God (Ps. 27:10)
I am hope-filled (Ps. 27:13; Jer. 29:11; Rom. 5:5)
I am helped, not helpless (Isa. 41:10, 13)
I am redeemed by God and therefore, I belong to Him (Isa. 43:1b).
I am always loved by God no matter what (Jer. 31:3; Rom. 5:8; 8:37-39)
I am the salt of the earth (Matt. 5:13)
I am the light of the world (Matt. 5:14)
I am a child of rest, no longer having to work for my salvation (Matt. 11:28)
I am precious to Jesus Who gave up everything to redeem or purchase me (Matt. 13:45-46; I Cor. 6:19-20; I Pet. 1:18-19)
I am given authority over all the power of the enemy (Luke 10:17, 19-20)
I am given everlasting life and will not be judged for my sins in the future (John 5:24)
I am free from bondage to sin positionally (John 8:31-36)
I am part of the True Vine, a channel of Christ’s life (John 15:1, 5)
I am chosen and appointed by Christ to produce lasting fruit (John 15:16)
I am given the power of the Holy Spirit inside me (Acts 1:8; Rom. 8:11; Gal. 5:22-23)
I am given peace with God through faith in Jesus (Rom. 5:1)
I am given hope because the love of God was poured out in my heart through the Holy Spirit (Rom. 5:5)
I am dead to sin (Rom. 6:2, 11; I Pet. 2:24)
I am set free from the power of sin (Rom. 6:2-11)
I am a slave of righteousness (Rom. 6:18)
I am slave of God (Rom. 6:22)
I have the Spirit of adoption by whom I cry out to God, ‘Abba (Daddy/Papa), Father.’” (Rom. 8:15)
I am free from accusation in Christ (Rom. 8:33)
I am free from condemnation in Christ (Rom. 8:34)
I have an eternal inheritance from God (glorified resurrection body/eternal dwelling on the New Earth) that cannot be taken from me (Rom. 8:17a; Gal. 3:26, 29; Eph. 1:14; cf. John 14:1-3; I Cor. 15:35-58; Phil. 3:21; Rev. 21-22)
I am more than a conqueror through Christ Who loved me (Rom. 8:37)
I can never be separated from God’s love (Rom. 8:38-39)
I have the mind of Christ (I Cor. 2:16)
I am a holy temple where the Holy Spirit now lives (I Cor. 3:16; 6:19; Eph. 2:21-22)
I am united to the Lord and am one spirit with Him (I Cor. 6:17)
I am a member of Christ’s body (I Cor. 12:27; Eph. 5:30)
I am not the great “I AM” (Exod. 3:14; John 8:24, 28, 58), but by the grace of God, I am what I am (I Cor. 15:10)
I am a new creation (2 Cor. 5:17)
I am reconciled to God (2 Cor. 5:18a)
I am a minister of reconciliation (2 Cor. 5:18b-19)
I am an ambassador for Christ (2 Cor. 5:20)
I am good enough in Christ (2 Cor. 5:21)
I am a bondservant of Christ (Gal. 1:10)
I can change because Jesus now lives inside me through His Spirit (Gal. 2:20; cf. Rom. 8:11)
I am redeemed from the curse of the Law (Gal. 3:13; I Pet. 1:18-19)
I am a son of God through faith in Jesus and am one in Christ (Gal. 3:26, 28)
I am a saint (one declared totally righteous) at the core of my being, not a sinner (Eph. 1:1; I John 3:9)
I am chosen or wanted by God (Eph. 1:4a; Col. 3:12a)
I am holy and without blame before God (Eph. 1:4b)
I am totally accepted by God in Christ (Eph. 1:6)
I am totally forgiven in Christ (Eph. 1:7; Col. 2:13-14)
I am sealed by the Holy Spirit Who guarantees my safe and secure delivery to God in heaven (Eph. 1:13-14)
I am God’s precious inheritance (Eph. 1:18)
I am seated in a position of authority and victory next to Jesus in the heavenly places far above all other authorities (Eph. 1:20-21; 2:5-6)
I am God’s masterpiece, not a mistake (Eph. 2:10)
I have been brought closer to God through the blood of Christ (Eph. 2:13)
I have instant access to the Father by one Spirit (Eph. 2:18)
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 a new man created according to God, in true righteousness and holiness (Eph. 4:24)
I am a child of light, defined by the light of Jesus Christ, not by the darkness of my sin (Eph. 5:8; cf. John 12:36)
I am a citizen of heaven, seated in heaven right now (Phil. 3:20; Eph. 2:6)
I have what it takes in Christ (Phil. 4:13)
I am delivered from the power of darkness into the kingdom of the Son of His love (Col. 1:13)
I am complete in Christ, lacking nothing (Col. 2:10)
I am safely and securely hidden with Christ in God (Col. 3:3)
I am an expression of the life of Christ because He is my life (Col 3:4; Deut. 30:20).
I am deeply loved by God (Col. 3:12a; I John 3:1)
I am credited with Christ’s holiness and therefore I am accepted by God (Col. 3:12a)
I am a son of light and not of darkness (I Thess. 5:5)
I am a perfected worshiper of Christ through His once and for all sacrifice (Heb. 10:10, 14)
I am God’s child born again of the incorruptible seed of the Word of God that stands forever (I Pet. 1:3, 23)
I am one of God’s living stones being built up in Christ as a spiritual house (I Pet. 2:5)
I am a member of a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, and a holy nation (I Pet. 2:9a)
I am a special person to God (I Pet. 2:9b)
I am an alien and stranger to this world in which I temporarily live (I Pet. 2:11a)
I am cared for by God (I Pet. 5:7)
I am an enemy to the devil (I Pet. 5:8)
I am a child of God and will resemble Jesus when He returns (I John 3:1-2)
I am an overcomer because greater is He who is in me than he who is in the world (I John 4:4)
I overcame the world’s opposition when I believed in Jesus (I John 5:1, 4)
I am born of God and the wicked one cannot touch or harm my born-again nature (I John 5:18)