I may be able to speak the languages of human beings and even of angels, but if I have no love, my speech is no more than a noisy gong or a clanging bell. I may have the gift of inspired preaching; I may have all knowledge and understand all secrets; I may have the faith needed to move mountains-but if I have no love, I am nothing. I may give away everything I have, and even give up my body to be burned-but if I have no love, this does me no good.”
1 Corinthians, 13:1-13

One Step…
No problem was ever solved without a climb, and every mountain can only be tackled one step at a time. Though burdens bring disappointment and pain, a summit lies ahead to gain. Don’t waste your time worrying about what might have been, and if you slip just get back on the road again. Though the winter sky
claims the summer’s blue, to yourself you must still be true. For you have dreams that will never pass away,
and they will remain your lasting sun through trouble’s way. And though progress can seem slow through the climb, remember that a mountain can only be conqueredone step at a time.

Make Me Worthy…
God, please help me do a little better each day. When I’m lost, show me the way. In all of my endeavors, let me do my best, and when trouble calls, put my worries to rest. Help me get past the things I fear, and never let me forget the dreams I hold dear. Let your light touch me like the sunshine above, and make me worthy of your dear love.

In your Hand Lord
God, please let me know that you’re there for me, when I’m fretting about what tomorrow will be. When I’m confused and lost, and feeling all alone, please step in to remind me that my worries are your own.
Send me a sign to let me know you understand. Tell me that you hold
my life gently in the palm of your hand.

Much of our anger is distorted. The traffic moved too slowly. Our spouse didn’t do what we wanted.

This distorted anger is still very intense and must be processed. Here’s a question: Would it be helpful if I shared my anger with someone? In sharing it, might I improve things for everyone? Or, should I simply let it go? Whatever you do, do something positive. Don’t hold anger inside. Anger was meant to be a visitor, never a resident. Ec 7:9 Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.

When is the last time you felt angry? How did you handle your anger? All of us have seen people explode. Many of us have exploded. On the other hand, many Christians pride themselves in holding their anger inside. But internalized anger is bad for your health.

The biblical challenge is that when we experience anger, we are to process it in a positive way. That may mean gently confronting the person who stimulated our anger. Or it may mean asking God to forgive us for being so ‘bent out of shape’ over such a minor matter. Learning to process anger in a timely and healthy way is one of the first lessons for healthy relationships.

Why do people get angry? I believe we get angry when our sense of ‘right’ is violated. But we have two kinds of anger:

Christ is all! He is the FULLNESS of God (verse 9)! Christ is all I need! I am COMPLETE
(filled full) in Him (verse 10)!
Christ in all of His fullness is IN YOU (Col. 1:27). “Christ in you,” if you are saved, is God’s
fullness. Christ is your FULLNESS! Not only is Christ in you (Col. 1:27) but you are in Christ
(Col. 2:10). To be in Christ is to be in the middle of the fullness of God. In Christ is all the
fullness of God and the believer is found in the middle of Christ, positioned in God’s beloved
Son. And Christ is found in the middle of God and all of God’s fullness. “And of His fullness
have all we received” (John 1:16). “And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge,
that ye might be filled with all the fullness of God” (Eph. 3:19; compare 4:13). All of the
fullness of God is in Christ and you are complete in Christ! Christ is the fullness of God. There is
nothing else you need to be complete. Christ is your complete sufficiency. Having Him you have
all!
Believers are in vital union with the very One who is the fullness of God and who has supplied
them with all they could ever need. If you have Christ, what more joy do you need? Is He not
your joy (John 15:11)? If you have Christ, what more hope do you need? Is not He your hope (1
Tim. 1:1)? If you have Christ what more peace do you need? Is not He your peace (Eph. 2:14)?
If you have Christ what more comfort do you need? What more power do you need? What more
wisdom do you need, seeing that in Him are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge
(Col. 2:3)? Having Him, how do you lack? “Having all sufficiency in all things!” (2 Cor. 9:8),
what can be added? What else is missing? We are in Christ and we are to draw upon His
fullness!
Jesus Christ, in me, makes the exercise and experience of fullness a rightful reality. The fullness
that I have as a believer is Christ. Not only is Christ in the believing heart, but the believing heart
is in Christ. In Christ the believing heart finds all the fullness of God. The believing heart is in
Christ, in the middle of God’s fullness. God has done a marvelous thing. God has placed us in
Himself, in the middle of all His fullness. My fullness, my sufficiency, my completeness is not to
be found in me; it is to be found in Christ even in Christ who is in me. This is why I can do all
things through Christ (Phil. 4:13). This is why I can “work out” my own salvation because “it is
God that worketh” in me! How rich am I as a believer? All the riches and fullness of God is
found in Christ and Christ is in me! We have this TREASURE in earthen vessels (2 Cor. 4:7).
“Ye in Me, and I in you” (John 14:20). Precious mystery! Blessed relationship!
In and of ourselves we are bankrupt. We are empty. We lack any kind of fullness, excepting that
we are full of SELF and full of SIN. We are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and
naked (Rev. 3:17). But in Christ we have all and abound, lacking nothing. There is nothing in a
believer; everything is in Christ. As the old hymn says, “Jesus Christ is made to me, all I need,
all I need; He alone is all my plea, He is all I need. Wisdom, righteousness and power, holiness
this very hour. My redemption full and free. He is ALL I NEED!” (compare 1 Corinthians 1:29-
31). Putting no confidence in the flesh, may we glory and boast in Him! Are you finding Him to
be ALL YOU NEED?
There is the expression: “I Find Christ Adequate.” It also could be said, “I Find Christ All-
Sufficient! He is SUFFICIENT for every SITUATION. Are you resting in the complete
adequacy of Christ? Are you completely sufficient in an all-sufficient Saviour? Because we are
complete in Him, “there are resources in Him from which we may be filled, that nothing be
lacking in us” (Calvin). Charles Wesley expressed it in this way, “Thou, O Christ, art all I
want,/More than all in Thee I find.” The Apostle said it this way: “And God is able to make all
grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to
every good work” (2 Cor. 9:8).
Christ is the FULLNESS of God and we are COMPLETE in Him! Because we can partake of
His fullness we do not need to lack in an area. “And of His fullness have all we received, and
grace for grace” (John 1:16). Because we have received of His fullness, we have an endless
supply of GRACE! The word “for” in John 1:16 means “instead of, in the place of.” Think of the
waves of the ocean. One wave crashes in and it is replaced by another wave, and then another
wave. Wave upon wave upon wave! They keep coming! There is an endless supply of waves,
one after the other continually. So it is with God’s grace. Of His fullness we have all received,
grace for grace, grace upon grace! God’s grace rolls in the direction of the believer wave upon
wave, an endless supply, all that we need! “He giveth more grace” (James 4:6, present tense, “He
keeps on giving more grace!”). “God is able to make all grace ABOUND toward you” (2 Cor.
9:8).
The Lord Jesus Christ is more than enough! Of His fullness we have all received. As believers
we are in Him and He is in us and we are complete in Him. We lack nothing. We have
everything in Christ but we must appropriate the sufficiency of Christ in the light of our
bankruptcy. We are sufficient in His sufficiency. “And who is sufficient for these things?….our
sufficiency is of God” (2 Corinthians 2:16; 3:5). May Christ, who is the fullness of God, be ALL
and EVERYTHING to you in these days and may you find in Him your completeness and the
fountain and source of all that you need. “But my God shall supply all your need according to his
riches in glory by Christ Jesus” (Phil. 4:19).
I am alive with Christ
(Ephesians 2:4-6).
But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions–it is by grace you have been saved And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus… (Ephesians 2:4).
The most important truth in all of Christianity is stated right here: We are made alive together with Christ. Notice that Paul says .with Christ” three times: We are “made alive with Christ.” We are “raised . up with Christ.” We are made to sit with Him. He has come to live in us, and He has joined himself to us, and we are one person with Him. That is the most important fact upon which to build all the rest of Christian faith and experience–this great, tremendous statement that we are made alive with Jesus Christ.
Do you remember how the Lord himself taught that? He said, “I am the vine; you are the branches” (John 15:5a). Can you tell where the branch ends and the vine starts? No. They are one plant, sharing one life together. So from here on our identity is no longer “in Adam” but it is “in Christ.” We are no longer just ordinary human beings. We are new creations, begun again, linked with the life of Jesus Christ.
Later in this letter Paul likens the church to a body, of which Christ is the head. Have you examined your body lately? Have you noticed that your fingers don’t come off if you merely twist them a half-turn and pull? They are tied to the body, and they share the life of the body. They are not attached by any mechanical process, but rather they are an organic part. These figures are all given to us to show us the intimate way we are united to Jesus Christ, to tell us that He is our life.
So never think of yourself in any other way, because the whole work of the enemy is to get you to disbelieve that and to go back to thinking that you are just an ordinary individual, struggling on through life, trying to make it the best way you can, needing to mobilize all your human resources to try to get ahead of the other fellow and to achieve as much of the fulfillment of life as you can. Any time you believe that, you go right back to acting as you once did–back to the misery, back to the heartaches. You can escape that only when you come back again to this central truth–we are alive in Jesus Christ!
There is one final thing to notice here. These verbs are all in the past tense. This is something that has happened, not something that is going to happen. It has already occurred when you believed in Jesus Christ. You don’t have to work toward it. It is not something that great saints achieve after years of effort. It is something that is already true, and every Christian has this experience. We were made alive in Jesus Christ. We cannot be the same again. Even if we try, we won’t be able to. This is why I sometimes say to people who get discouraged with their Christian life, “Well, quit then, go back, try not to be a Christian. See what will happen.” They can’t do it, and they know they can’t, because they are new creatures, made alive in Jesus Christ.
Father, thank You for this great truth. I pray that You would make plain to me that this is who I am and that I will never he able to handle life alright until I understand this.

I am free from the law of sin and death (Romans 8:2).
Free From the Law of Sin and Death: The Holy Bible
What a breathtaking revelation from the Word of God. The infallible Word of God has proclaimed, “For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.” (Romans 8:2) Free means free; the law of sin and death has been broken, stripped of its bondage over me, and I am free by the Spirit of Jesus Christ to live by the new law of life and resurrection. The primary word of this article will be the word free. The two secondary words will be sin and death. These two words can never be separated because they belong together. There can be no sin without death and there can be no death without sin.

The great Gospel message of Jesus Christ and His life is God’s complete and perfect solution for sin and death. The two great conflicts of this entire universe are found in this one verse of Scripture. “The law of the spirit of life in Jesus Christ” versus “The law of sin and death.” Every living soul on this earth is under one or the other of these two laws or principles.
The Bondage of Sin

If sin is reigning in your life then death is slowly, or swiftly in many cases, working destruction in you. At least 70% to 80% of all sickness is the work of active sin and death in that person’s life. It may be simple sins like resentment, jealousy, or anger; or it may be adultery, fornication, or one of many expressions of lust. There was no death when there was no sin. All or any sin is a slow form of death. God’s Holy Word constantly connects sin and death to each other. Apostle Paul said, “For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.” (Romans 6:23) Apostle James said, “Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.” (James l:15) We must change the mindset that sin only produces death when we are actually dying. Sin begins to produce the first stage of death the very moment we willingly engage in sin. When you get angry, your face turns red, which means your blood pressure has responded to your anger. When people are overwhelmed with fear, the body actually can collapse and become unconscious. Any strong emotion caused by any act of sin affects your health.

Find any prostitute – male or female – any homosexual or lesbian, and spend a short time talking and listening to them as they open their hearts. You will see emotions, broken thoughts, facial sorrows, and a general downward spiral evident in their total person. It has never failed to be evident as I have made myself available to help and bless many broken lives during almost fifty years of pastoring. Try to help someone that has a problem with lying, stealing, fighting, or any number of dysfunctional habits, and the destruction of that life is unquestionable. Sin is slow death.

I have watched wives or husbands that were betrayed by their companion, who could not forgive those betrayals, completely fall apart and never rise back to their former greatness. Even the guiltless person that cannot forgive and give up his anger will destroy himself and his health. Every expression of sin from anger to vile immoral conduct is slow death because you cannot have sin without death or death without sin. They are twin brothers.

One story I would like to share is about a man I met while he was in college. He went on to get his master’s degree and promptly acquired a good job. He was soon making fifty to sixty thousand dollars a year fifteen-plus years ago. This young man was raised in a dysfunctional home where fighting was constant. I learned after fifteen years that anger was a constant emotion when he did not get his way. Soon, he was taking drugs to cope. Then, he got involved in fornication. Soon he was using every trick possible to acquire money. The story gets worse, but let me tell you where it is today. He is totally disabled. The doctors make it very plain that he is sick, but his sickness has no trace to some physical cause. Sin has made a wreck out of this man. It started with anger and a self-centered lifestyle. He has lost his home, his wife, and his two precious children. Without a miracle, he will soon die an utterly broken and wrecked person. If this man would turn wholly to Jesus Christ, within twelve months he could rebuild his life and be a happy man with a happy family. Sin and death have no choice but to flee when the law of life in Jesus Christ is fully applied to that spirit, soul, and body; and it’s all a free gift just for surrendering and believing on the power of His Blood to perfectly redeem.

I have watched individuals that I pastored completely destroy themselves because of what would seem a very small sin problem. I can remember persons that were constantly negative in their attitude toward other members in the church. At first, they appeared to handle their criticism without too much effect on their Christian life. Soon, the criticism got worse and almost simultaneously they began to suffer physical problems. While arthritis can be physically caused by stress or injury, I believe it can often be traced to fault-finding and emotional rage. Remember, no stress is more devastating than stress caused by sin. Probably, we could say that most stress is caused by unbelief, disobedience or outright Biblical sins.
Your Body Was Not Created For Sin

Your body was created by the Creator and for the Creator. The natural lifestyle that you were created to enjoy and to make you healthy is a Holiness lifestyle. Every action or attitude contrary to Holiness is unnatural and affects your well-being and happiness. You were created beautifully by His perfect design. Every effort you make to change your natural appearance is futile and foolish. The world is frustrating itself to death trying to change themselves so they can enhance their self-esteem or self-worth. Please show me one person where this foolish effort has changed anything for good. These same people go from one crazy appearance to another and are never truly satisfied until they return to a natural appearance. Even the New Agers in their search for the “god within” have adopted the natural look instead of the clown look.

Purity is man’s created naturalness. That’s the very design of the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. It was to break the law of sin and death and restore you to freedom. When someone tells you that you have to sin more or less, tell them that they are attacking the redemption powers of Jesus Christ. The Son of God can liberate you from the prison of “sin and death.” You are free, not for yourself or to do your own thing, but for Him.
Galations was written by Apostle Paul to the church in Galatia. In this epistle, he names the works of the flesh and plainly states that no one that does the works of “sin and death” are going to inherit the kingdom of God. Paul connected the works of the flesh to “death”. “For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.” (Romans 8:6-7) Claiming the Christian life while living the sinful life is a travesty.
The Powers of Slow Death

The works of the flesh are very destructive. Listen to this description. “Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.” (Galations 5:19-21) Please note the words, “The works of the flesh are manifest.” This denotes that these actions are visible, they shine to destruction in the exact opposite of a manifestation of something that is positive. In other words, “The works of the flesh are manifest” or they are great, destructive powers that cannot be hid. Your sins are killing you.

Let’s list the meaning of each of these actions of sin:

•Adultery: Unlawful marriage.
•Fornication: Sexual conduct of any description outside of lawful marriage including masturbation and sodomy.
•Uncleanness: Filthy habits, smoking, drinking intoxicating substances; filthy language, unclean jokes, bodily filth.
•Lasciviousness: Arrogance, lustfulness and excessive desire for pleasure; unrestrained lifestyle.
•Idolatry: Worshiping things, money or anything other than the one true God.
•Witchcraft: Following magical ideas, addicted to books, programs, ideas rooted in the occult. Addicted to drugs, prescribed or illegal, that raise your emotions and created altered consciousness.
•Hatred: Hostility toward others, ill-will for anyone, envy.
•Variance: To divide people, set people against others or to excite division.
•Emulation: Envy and jealousy; wanting what others have in a negative sense.
•Wrath: Anger, a passionate emotion of the mind and physical body.
•Strife: To fight with others whether by licks or words.
•Seditions: Sowing discord, promoting disagreements and gossip.
•Heresies: Dividing people over doctrines that are false. Promoting ideas to separate and draw people after yourself.
•Envyings: Passion to have things belonging to someone else. Anger over someone else’s blessings.
•Murder: To kill either the person, their influence or reputation.
•Drunkenness: Drinking or taking drugs to affect your emotions. Drunkenness over money, pleasure or things of the world; loving the world more than God.
•Revellings: A party spirit, loving to hang out, eat and have empty fun; pleasure seekers.
•And Such Like: Anything that is similar to any of the actions above. God is calling us out of the world and to find our pleasures in purity, the Word of God, prayer and worship. Working and worshipping for His Kingdom is to replace our love for the world.

All of the above actions are destructive when our lives are lives with these emotions of the flesh. These emotions are filled with death. Disease, high blood pressure and stress that disables will grow and grow until the body is filled with death and brokenness. Look around you and listen to the endless list of lives that are on a downward spiral because of living the fast life. The faster the life, the greater the destruction and the earlier the death. Do a little honest research on Elvis Presley, great stars from drama, Hollywood movies, music, and other big names of the entertainment industry. That will give you an exaggerated picture of what is the result of the works of the flesh and how they manifest in your body.

But Now The “Good News”

The life of Jesus Christ has provided “freedom” from the “law of sin and death.” Please remember that “sin and death” is a law or a principle where destruction rules. It cannot be changed by human will or human flesh. The only law that is capable of canceling the law of sin and death is the law or principle of the Spirit of life in Jesus Christ. The Spirit of the Eternal God was and is in the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ and that Spirit is fully capable of totally eradicating the power of sin and death. I do not care how utterly destroyed your life has descended toward death. The very moment you will completely surrender to the Spirit of life by Jesus Christ you will begin the supernatural transformation He has provided.

The Bible rightly calls this the “New Birth.” It is so supernatural and miraculous that the only words that fit perfectly are the words “New Birth.” You actually are “born again.” Everything of “sin and death” is forgiven and cleansed out of your spirit, soul, and body; and your mind, your thinking capacity, is totally renewed, transformed, turned upside right, and you are a new creature. Do not believe this because I said it, but because the Bible says it. Listen to Jesus, “Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.” (St. John 3:5-7) Apostle Paul adds this description, “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.” (2 Cor. 5:17) “I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.” (Romans 12:1-2)

The reasons we have “sinner friendly churches” and “purpose driven churches” and an endless list of similar books on finding the will of God, full of Shullerism and New Age heresies, is because we have churches and pulpits full of men and women that have never been “born again.” The will of God cannot be discovered until you are “free” of “sin and death” and “full” of the “Spirit of life in Jesus Christ.” The will of God will flood your soul when your will has been forsaken to follow Jesus Christ and an infallible Holy Bible. He will set you “free” by a power from God that was provided at Calvary and the empty tomb. When this happens you will no longer meditate on His death and pain, but on His life and resurrection.

Healing For Soul and Body

I love the way James, the brother and disciple of the Lord Jesus Christ, gave us the solution for the sinful and sick world. Let’s go to his five chapter book and learn what awaits you when repentance, surrender, and the prayer of faith is engaged. James wrote by the Spirit, “Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord: And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.” (James 5:14-15)

He said, “The prayer of faith shall save the sick and the Lord shall raise him up.” The church world during the revival days of Charles Finney, Dwight L Moody, and many others always believed for the double miracles. They expected the man or woman that sin had brought to emotional and physical despair to be both saved from sin and healed from sin’s destruction. The Bible teaches us that Jesus came to make us “whole”, to “free” us from sin and death, not just sin. Look at this miracle of the leperous man who was cleansed by Jesus Christ. “And Jesus answering said, Were there not ten cleansed? but where are the nine? There are not found that returned to give glory to God, save this stranger. And he said unto him, Arise, go thy way: thy faith hath made thee whole.” (St. Luke 17:17-19)

This man was cleansed and made whole because He totally surrendered. Many people want to be saved from hell or healed but do not want to give Him all of themselves. Such people will never be healed and made perfectly whole, but the dear soul that comes ready to become His disciple and to start the brand new life of faith and surrender, will be saved from sin and healed from the death that sin has created in their life. Yes, we all will die, if Jesus tarries, but our death will be at His time and hour not the devil’s time and hour.

“Free” From The “Law Of Sin And Death”

You can be completely “free” from the bondage and sorrow that sin has afflicted upon your life. The drunkard can be delivered in one split second from the habit and addiction of the bottle. The drug addict can be set free from drug addiction in minutes, not weeks of the false therapies and psychobabble. Homes can be rebuilt and professions or businesses can be restored. Your reputation can be revived and your health can be supernaturally renewed. Every bondage of sin and death can be broken. There are no miracles more breathtaking than a redeemed soul brought back from the pit of despair. This is the Gospel of Jesus Christ not the self-help delusion that floods the church world. Turn to Jesus today. He will, by His Spirit, show you the way.

I am far from oppression, and fear (Isaiah 54:14).
Fear binds multitudes of Christians today. Here is how to overcome it. Fear is a spirit. We see that from the Word of God. 2 Timothy 1:7 For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind. Paul gave this Scripture to Timothy right in the midst of telling him to stir up his spiritual gifts, to testify for Jesus Christ, and to share with Paul in the sufferings of the gospel of Jesus Christ. Satan doesn’t want you to use your spiritual gifts. He doesn’t want you to talk about Jesus, and he wants you to be afraid of the suffering that you may or may not experience if you do talk about Jesus. Looking around at many Christians, it seems that Satan has succeeded to stop many from moving forward by means of this one evil power alone. It is estimated that 80% of Christians today are oppressed by a spirit of fear. This can and must be reversed. But Proverbs 11:9 says, “Through knowledge the righteous will be delivered”. We need the genuine knowledge of God to be delivered from the Spirit of Fear. Fear stops people not only in the areas of witnessing and using spiritual gifts. The fear of rejection has hindered people from beginning wonderful relationships. The fear of failure has held many back from beginning wonderful enterprises. The fear of death paralyzes and torments many. There are many other kinds of fear. God has not given us a spirit of fear, but unfortunately, many Christians have received a spirit of fear at some time in their life. They received what the devil was handing out to them. Many times, they received it before they became Christians, and they have not known God well enough to get rid of it since that time. One thing is clear, no Christian received a spirit of fear from God. In fact, the Bible tells us in 1 John 4:18 that “perfect love casts out fear”. The more of the divine love of God that we receive into our lives, the less scope there is for fear to get a grip.
I am born of God, (1 John 5:18).
Born of God or “born again” refers to the personal spiritual experience in which repentant individuals receive a forgiveness of sins and a witness from God that if they continue to live the commandments and endure to the end, they will inherit eternal life. The scriptures teach that just as each individual is “born into the world by water, and blood, and the spirit,” so must one be “born again” of water and the Spirit and be cleansed by the blood of Christ (John 3:5; Moses 6:59). To be born of God implies a sanctifying process by which the old or natural man is supplanted by the new spiritual man who enjoys the companionship of the Holy Ghost and hence is no longer disposed to commit sin (Col. 3:9-10; When individuals are born again they are spiritually begotten sons and daughters of God and more specifically of Jesus Christ.
I am holy and without blame before Him in love (Ephesians 1:4; 1 Peter 1:16).

I have the mind of Christ (1 Corinthians 2:16; Philippians 2:5).
I have the peace of God that passes all understanding (Philippians 4:7).
I have the Greater One living in me; greater is He Who is in me than he who is in the world (1 John 4:4).
I have received the gift of righteousness and reign as a king in life by Jesus Christ (Romans 5:17).
I have received the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Jesus, the eyes of my understanding being enlightened (Ephesians 1:17,18).

I have received the power of the Holy Spirit to lay hands on the sick and see them recover, to cast out demons, to speak with new tongues. I have power over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means harm me (Mark 16:17,18; Luke 10:17,19).

I have put off the old man and have put on the new man, which is renewed in the knowledge after the image of Him Who created me (Colossians 3:9,10).

I have given, and it is given to me; good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over, men give into my bosom (Luke 6:38).

I have no lack for my God supplies all of my need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus (Philippians 4:19).

I can quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one with my shield of faith (Ephesians 6:16).
I can do all things through Christ Jesus (Philippians 4:13).
I show forth the praises of God Who has called me out of darkness into His marvelous light (1 Peter 2:9).
I am God’s childfor I am born again of the incorruptible seed of the Word of God, which lives and abides forever (1 Peter 1:23).

I am God’s workmanship, created in Christ unto good works (Ephesians 2:10).
I am a new creature in Christ (2 Corinthians 5:17).
I am a spirit beingalive to God (Romans 6:11;1 Thessalonians 5:23).
I am a believer, and the light of the Gospel shines in my mind (2 Corinthians 4:4).
I am a doer of the Word and blessed in my actions (James 1:22, 25).
I am a joint-heir with Christ (Romans 8:17).
I am more than a conqueror through Him Who loves me (Romans 8:37).
I am an overcomer by the blood of the Lamb and the word of my testimony (Revelation 12:11).
I am a partaker of His divine nature (2 Peter 1:3,4).
I am an ambassador for Christ (2 Corinthians 5:20).

I am part of a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a purchased people (1 Peter 2:9).
I am the righteousness of God in Jesus Christ (2 Corinthians 5:21).
I am the temple of the Holy Spirit; I am not my own (1 Corinthians 6:19).
I am the head and not the tail; I am above only and not beneath (Deuteronomy 28:13).
I am the light of the world (Matthew 5:14).
I am His elect, full of mercy, kindness, humility, and longsuffering (Romans 8:33; Colossians 3:12).
I am forgiven of all my sins and washed in the Blood (Ephesians 1:7).
I am delivered from the power of darkness and translated into God’s kingdom (Colossians 1:13).
I am redeemed from the curse of sin, sickness, and poverty (Deuteronomy 28:15-68; Galatians 3:13).
I am firmly rooted, built up, established in my faith and overflowing with gratitude (Colossians 2:7).
I am called of God to be the voice of His praise (Psalm 66:8; 2 Timothy 1:9).
I am healed by the stripes of Jesus (Isaiah 53:5; 1 Peter 2:24).
I am raised up with Christ and seated in heavenly places (Ephesians 2:6; Colossians 2:12;).
I am greatly loved by God (Romans 1:7; Ephesians 2:4; Colossians 3:12; 1 Thessalonians 1:4).
I am strengthened with all might according to His glorious power (Colossians 1:11).
I am submitted to God, and the devil flees from me because I resist him in the Name of Jesus (James 4:7).
I press on toward the goal to win the prize to which God in Christ Jesus is calling us upward (Philippians 3:14).

For God has not given us a spirit of fear; but of power, love, and a sound mind (2 Timothy 1:7).
It is not I who live, but Christ lives in me (Galatians 2:20).
Copyright © 2008 Joyce Meyer Ministries, Inc.

Isaiah 43:4 I am precious and honored in God’s sight and God loves me
Matthew 5:13 I am the salt of the earth
Matthew 5:14 I am the light of the world
John 1:22 I am a child of God
John 14:17-18 God dwells with me and will be in me, He does not leave me as an orphan but comes to me
John 15: 1, 5 I am a branch of the true vine…a channel of His life
John 15:7-8 God’s words abide in me, I am His disciple and I bear much fruit
John 15:15 I am Christ’s Friend
John 15:16 I am chosen and appointed by Christ to bear His fruit
Acts 1:8 I will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on me and I will be His witness to the world
Romans 5:1 I have been justified, completely forgiven and made righteous
Romans 5:8 I am loved by God because Christ died for me while I was still a sinner
Romans 5:9 I have been justified and saved
Romans 5:17 I have received abundance of grace and the gift of righteousness
Romans 6:1-6 I died with Christ and died to the power of sin’s rule over my life
Romans 6:18 I am a slave to righteousness
Romans 8:1 I am free forever from condemnation
Romans 8:14 I am a son/daughter of God
Romans 8:15 God is spiritually my Father
Romans 8:16 I am a child of God
Romans 8:27 I am a joint heir with Christ sharing his inheritance
Romans 8:28 I am assured that all things work together for good
Romans 8:30 I am predestined, I am called, I am justified and glorified
Romans 8:31 God is for me
Romans 8:33 I am free from any condemning charges against me
Romans 8:37 I am more than a conqueror
Romans 8:39 I cannot be separated from the love of God
I Corinthians 2:16 I have been given the mind of Christ
I Corinthians 3:9 I am God’s Co-worker
I Corinthians 3:16 I am a temple of God, His Spirit and His life dwell in me
I Corinthians 6:11 I am washed, sanctified and justified in the name of the Lord Jesus
I Corinthians 6:17 I am united to the Lord and am one spirit with Him
I Corinthians 6:19-20 I have been bought with a price, I am not my own; I belong to God
I Corinthians 12:27 I am a member of Christ’s body
I Corinthians 15:22 I am made alive in Christ
II Corinthians 1:21-22 I have been established, anointed and sealed by God in Christ
II Corinthians 2:15 I am the fragrance of Christ
II Corinthians 5:14 I live for Christ, since I have died I longer live for myself but for Him.
II Corinthians 5:17 I am a new creation
II Corinthians 5:18 I am reconciled to God and am a minister of reconciliation
II Corinthians 5:21 I have been made righteous
Galations 2:20 I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live but Christ lives in me
Galations 3:13 I have been redeemed from the curse of the law
Galations 3:24 I am justified by faith
Galations 3:29 I am Christ’s, Abraham’s seed, heirs according to the promise
Ephesians 1:1 I am a saint
Ephesians 1:3 I am blessed with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ
Ephesians 1:5 I have been adopted as God’s child
Ephesians 1:13,14 I have been given the Holy Spirit as a pledge, guaranteeing my inheritance to come
Ephesians 2:5 I have been made alive together with Christ
Ephesians 2:6 I have been raised up and I’m seated with Christ
Ephesians 2:10 I am God’s workmanship
Ephesians 2:18 I have direct access to God through the Holy Spirit
Ephesians 2:19 I am a member of God’s household, I am a fellow citizen with the rest of the saints
Ephesians 3:12 I may approach God with boldness and confidence
Ephesians 4:24 I am a new man, created according to God
Phillipians 1:6 I am confident that God will complete the good work He began in me
Phillipians 3:3 I worship God in the Spirit, I have no confidence in the flesh
Phillipians 3:20 I am a citizen of heaven right now
Phillipians 4:13 I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me
Colossians 1:13 I have been delivered from the dominion of darkness and transferred to the kingdom of light
Colossians 1:14 I have been redeemed and forgiven of all my sins
Colossians 2:7 I am firmly rooted in Christ and am now being built up
Colossians 2:10 I have been made complete in Christ
Colossians 3:3 I am hidden with Christ in God
Colossians 3:12 I am chosen of God and may approach God with boldness and confidence
II Timothy 1:7 I have not been given a spirit of fear, but rather a spirit of power, love and self-discipline
Hebrews 2:11 Because I am sanctified and one with the Sanctifier, He is not ashamed to call me His
brother/sister
Hebrews 4:16 I can come boldly to the throne of grace and obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need
II Peter 1:4 I have been given precious and magnificent promises by God, by which I am a partaker of God’s
divine nature
I John 4:4 I am an overcomer because He who is in me is greater than he who is in the world
I John 5:18 I am born of God and the evil one – the devil- cannot touch me
Revelations 5:10 I have been made a king and priest to our God and we shall reign on the earth