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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John 16:13-14NIV
40-I am foolish vs. wise
But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all the truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come.
He will glorify me because it is from me that he will receive what he will make known to you. -
John 17:13NIV
60-I am depressed vs. filled with Joy
“I am coming to you now, but I say these things while I am still in the world, so that they may have the full measure of my joy within them.
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John 3:18NIV
80-I am condemned vs. blameless
Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son.
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John 5:24NIV
80-I am condemned vs. blameless
“Very truly I tell you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be judged but has crossed over from death to life.
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John 8:32NIV
45-I am in bondage vs. free
Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
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John 8:36NIV
45-I am in bondage vs. free
So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.
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Philippians 1:6NIV
70-I am timid vs. confident
being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.
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Philippians 4:11NIV
30-I am anxious vs. content
I am not saying this because I am in need, for I have learned to be content whatever the circumstances.
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Philippians 4:13NIV
15-I am inadequate vs. adequate
I can do all this through him who gives me strength.
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Philippians 4:6-7NIV
30-I am anxious vs. content
Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.
And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. -
Proverbs 14:26NIV
70-I am timid vs. confident
Whoever fears the Lord has a secure fortress,
and for their children it will be a refuge. -
Proverbs 28:1NIV
70-I am timid vs. confident
The wicked flee though no one pursues,
but the righteous are as bold as a lion. -
Proverbs 3:26NIV
70-I am timid vs. confident
for the Lord will be at your side
and will keep your foot from being snared. -
Psalm 27:1NIV
25-I am fearful vs. peaceful
The Lord is my light and my salvation—
whom shall I fear?
The Lord is the stronghold of my life—
of whom shall I be afraid? -
Psalm 32:7NIV
25-I am fearful vs. peaceful
You are my hiding place;
you will protect me from trouble
and surround me with songs of deliverance. -
Psalm 37:5NIV
30-I am anxious vs. content
Commit your way to the Lord;
trust in him and he will do this: -
Psalm 4:8NIV
30-I am anxious vs. content
In peace I will lie down and sleep,
for you alone, Lord,
make me dwell in safety. -
Psalm 55:22NIV
30-I am anxious vs. content
Cast your cares on the Lord
and he will sustain you;
he will never let
the righteous be shaken. -
Revelation 12:7-11NIV
95-I align with darkness vs. light
Then war broke out in heaven. Michael and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought back.
But he was not strong enough, and they lost their place in heaven.
The great dragon was hurled down—that ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan, who leads the whole world astray. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him.
Then I heard a loud voice in heaven say:
“Now have come the salvation and the power
and the kingdom of our God,
and the authority of his Messiah.
For the accuser of our brothers and sisters,
who accuses them before our God day and night,
has been hurled down.
They triumphed over him
by the blood of the Lamb
and by the word of their testimony;
they did not love their lives so much
as to shrink from death. -
Romans 15:13NIV
60-I am depressed vs. filled with Joy
May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.
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Romans 15:4NIV
75-I am hopeless vs. hopeful
For everything that was written in the past was written to teach us, so that through the endurance taught in the Scriptures and the encouragement they provide we might have hope.
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Romans 5:13NIV
75-I am hopeless vs. hopeful
To be sure, sin was in the world before the law was given, but sin is not charged against anyone’s account where there is no law.
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Romans 8:1NIV
80-I am condemned vs. blameless
Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus,
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Romans 8:16NIV
55-I don't fit in vs. belong
The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God’s children.
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Romans 8:17NIV
55-I don't fit in vs. belong
Now if we are children, then we are heirs—heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory.
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Romans 8:20-25NIV
75-I am hopeless vs. hopeful
For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope
that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the freedom and glory of the children of God.
We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time.
Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption to sonship, the redemption of our bodies.
For in this hope we were saved. But hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what they already have?
But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently. -
Romans 8:31-34NIV
05-I am unworthy vs. worthy
What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?
Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies.
Who then is the one who condemns? No one. Christ Jesus who died—more than that, who was raised to life—is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us. -
Romans 8:35-39NIV
01-I am unlovable vs. very loved
35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?
36 As it is written:
“For your sake we face death all day long;
we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”
37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.
38 For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers,
39 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 8:37NIV
20-I am a failure vs. victorious
No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.
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Romans 8:38-39NIV
85-I am alone vs. never alone
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