OUR ABUNDANT LIFE IN CHRIST
What are your hopes and dreams worth? Are they the God given desires that
should dominate the Christians heart? God believes in your dreams and wants to
give you the desires of your heart. More importantly, the desires God has for
you is given individually when we were created for His purposes. God wants us
to develop: personally, acquire wisdom, and attain the spiritual desires in His
heart for us. Therefore, we need ask, seek, and knock to know God’s desires and
destiny for us.
God’s children perish for a lack of knowledge and have lost, or do not
understand, His vision for their lives. This happened from a lack in our
relationship with Him. Spiritual life is God’s gift to us. Let what we do with
our life be our gift to God by finding out the desires He placed in our heart!
There is a treasure buried there and the key to the lock is healing through
forgiveness. Time is just a shadow in this life. What we do with our life can
make a difference in His Kingdom. Whatever we need to do to be whole is the
most important issue we need to face today. How we surrender our hearts to God
will create our happenstance and the joy we experience in life. God already
gave us everything we need to be whole through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Dreams and desires become reality when we believe God’s truth about ourselves.
Maybe this is the first step we should take today. Faith is a gift given to us
through the manifest grace of God. He is consistently and passionately drawing
us to focus on His Truth. Healing our relationship with God is what must happen
to be blessed and experience abundance. We need to count the cost to God and
weigh His sacrifice to find our worth. Then we may see our pitiful condition
and surrender to God to receive His mercy. God is always in our corner working
for us even before we ever thought of Him.
Abundant grace is having more than we could ever use and placing a proper value
upon God’s presence working in our life. Abundance comes from loving what we
do and making sure everyone receives the true value of what we offer – the grace
of God. By doing what God loves others will be drawn to His light and we’ll
reach a multitude of people intelligently and receive an abundance of grace by
giving the treasure away.
The terms we associate with abundance as well as the beliefs we heard growing up
give us an image. The reasons people don’t already have abundance is that they
need to overcome their mis-belief or unbelief. The task before us is the
transformation of our thinking, and it takes regeneration, a renewed heart and
spirit from God so that we can know and understand spiritual truth. Only then
will we be ready to understand ‘mastery’.
Mastery is believing God called us to receive the gift of eternal life in Christ
through a true knowledge of Him by faith, which works through love, and to lay
down everything that so easily besets us, and be conformed to the image and
likeness of His Son by the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, to obey the will of
God in reaching others for Christ...
To receive God’s abundance, we’ll master what Jesus did, and do what He does.
Learning to share our abundance of God’s presence with others. Then, the more
freely we give, the more we ultimately receive. Above all we’ll be a cheerful
giver and praise and thank God for the opportunity to give His grace away
without expecting anything in return. And, then we’ll prosper believing God’s
blessing will come from anywhere at anytime.
Today is the day to live passionately with faith towards God. First of all, we
must believe that God is, and, that He is a rewarder of them that diligently
seek Him. In doing so we will find our rest in Him. God wants us to live
according to His will and learn to rest and be content in all situations.
Contentment is being thankful for all things, knowing God is the Author and
Finisher of our sacred trust.
In order to live an Abundant Life in Christ there are many things needed to be
done in order to walk in obedience to the Holy Spirit. There are things we need
to surrender and trust God will do for us. Faith towards God is living out what
we truly believe while learning to ‘trust in God’ for any situation. When we
surrendered we began walking in His Spirit being placed in Christ by God. We
will never be alone through the trials of faith that God has prepared for us to
walk through so that we gain experiential understanding.
God knows that when we start to receive the benefits of the Abundant Life in
Christ we will seek Him more ardently. God desires that we seek Him with all
our heart, soul, mind, and spirit, out of gratitude for all He’s done. Do you
want to please God? Seek Him. What action we take to fulfill God’s will for
our life will receive the abundant reward of knowing His presence in life. We
will know through growth in our walk with God that in Christ we can do all
things. And, the expectation of God’s presence lights the fire to live
passionately.
Life will always be exciting waiting to find out what plans God has for our
life. When we trust in God we’ll know that any gift from God will improve and
should make life - more enjoyable, easier, better, fuller, and shared. Our
relationship with God is His utmost concern. True growth and change from God
will come through trials and tribulations.
The trials of life give us the experience we need to trust God who will always
provide for us through a personal relationship. He will be there or send
someone to care for us.
When we get to the point where we fully trust God we’ll eliminate the wasted
time we spend trying to accomplish our goals through our efforts and learn to
rest in Him. When we need to do something that God wants accomplished, the Holy
Spirit will have already led us to the gate. Until we are called by God, He
wants us to rest in the finished work of the Cross and enjoy our liberty. Our
Lord wants us to take our vacations and have good downtimes. He knows our need
to rest from doing in order to have a life. He only asks us to be willing to
answer His call. Resting in Him is necessary for mental and spiritual health
too.
One of the keys to abundance is learning to view life from our loving Father
God’s perspective. We need to review God’s will against our desires, the devil
is at war with the Spirit in us. God’s will is for His children to grow into
the fullness of Christ image in us. We need to find out and accept who we are
and believe God for any the transformation.
Divine dissatisfaction comes from God the Holy Spirit and will lead to the path
that stimulates growth. Growth means that we are always asking, seeking, and
knocking to find our ‘‘Why, or, why not?”, when faced with trial and
tribulation. Through painful times of insecurity we need to grasp the truth by
studying the Word of God. We are never told to rely on the wisdom of the world,
use guess-work, respond to feeling, or, hear-say. This is the time we learn to
rest and rely on the whole counsel of God, His counselors and a multitude of
promises. Faith in God’s Word and applying it to our lives is the means to end
the ignorance and to reach the end of our discomfort.
Faith is the rule! Probability and doubt is eliminated through the Word of
God. We need to commit to mastering the fundamentals in order to persevere
through hard times. The abundant life begins when we surrender ourselves to God
to fulfill our destiny in us - one step at a time. In order to succeed we must
have Godly reasons and use His principles.
Integrity is a new creation character trait. The renewed spirit communes with
God and will persuade us to pray in order to achieve our God-given desires.
When the Holy Spirit motivates us He will accompany our prayers. Each prayer is
a step that reaches all the way to the Throne of Grace. If we ask God He will
change our hearts accordingly and motivate us through His presence to attain the
godly desires He’s given us. Eventually, through our experiential prayers of
faith, we will learn to count the blessing and thank God for His providential
care. Through God’s intervention in our life we learn to exercise our faith
towards Him. This is, The Way. Surrendering to God is required as an
expression of our personal trust in Him.
As a new creation we make a choice every day to follow our renewed heart’s
desire and take steps that sometimes lead to immediate action. When we do, we
need to remember that we actually come before the Throne of God. While we are
praying for guidance we are to rest in our relationship with Jesus and make our
petitions known.
Since we received the righteousness of Christ we are given the right to come
before God, for it is written, “Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of
grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need. --
Heb.4:16. When we put our faith into practice we are to cast all our cares upon
the Lord. The Holy Spirit cares that we learn to be obedient to His call. We
encourages us to ask, seek, and knock to receive and thoroughly understand God’s
will.
What causes feelings of failure - find where you lack faith and you’ll see where
you lack knowledge. The truth dispels the darkness and replaces fear with
faith. The false beliefs we have caused deceptive irrational thinking. Our
mind needs renewal. We need to replace our mis-beliefs with the truth. After
we find the truth in Scripture we should always meditate upon the Word of Life
while committing God’s promises to memory.
One benefit of living in the truth is to know ‘the joy of the Lord is our
strength!’ Jesus is our author and finisher of our faith, he is our personal
savior. We can know Jesus as a friend but only after we share in His life,
death, burial, resurrection, and ascension.
Regeneration happens only after the Holy Spirit reveals the Lord Jesus Christ as
God the Son. Jesus is the incarnation of God in a man’s body. We all feel
hollow until He begins to fill the need He already implanted in us. We don’t
know the truth until the Holy Spirit speaks life to the deadness of our
unregenerate spirit. This intervention sparks a desire for a relationship with
Him inspiring us to search for him. We choose to respond God’s love and walk
towards the light as the Holy Spirit draws us ever closer.
To continually walk in Christ’s light we need only make a conscious decision
once to devote our daily life to Christ through thought, word, and deed. Then
God the Holy Spirit will take over to continue laying a proper foundation in
Christ. We are disciples of the Holy Spirit and He will direct our paths to
learn more of Christ. He is humble and willing to lead us into all truth.
The Holy Spirit will lead us to be imitators of Christ and to be doers of the
word. The Holy Spirit will prevail upon us to let the word of God indwell us.
Through His direction we will bring glory to God’s name through our lives, the
fruit of the Holy Spirit’s presence in us. He is the reason for the fruit to
begin to blossom in our life. God’s desires an abundance in our life so just
relax and soak up the Son-shine and our heavenly Father’s approval.
CHRIST IN ME,
THE HOPE OF GLORY
‘To Experience Life With Passion - Is To Glorify
The Lord!’
The Joy Of The Lord Is My Strength! - Nehemiah
6:8
God knows you for your personal commitment to
continual growth in the knowledge and wisdom of Him. By making a choice you
have already begun the journey to a deeper understanding of the truth, which
will lead you into a more personal and intimate relationship with God, our Lord
Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit.
The universe’s design reveals the nature of God and our divinely created image
and likeness. The simple steps to walk in the Spirit and the inspire the lives
of those who encompass your life are yours for the taking. In this work the
keys of the mystery hidden through the ages is revealed, which is ‘Christ in you
the hope of glory’.
If your faith in God is to give you life it must be based on the truth. To live
with passion we must experience His life working through us on a daily basis.
For our life to be eternally affected by the Word of God we must come to the
banqueting table and dine - Rev.3-20-23. Truly the spirit of God in you is
willing. By a self-conscious decision you have acted in faith toward God. It
is God gift to us to reveal His life being lived through us as sons and
daughters of the Most High God, Elohim.
All of creation is waiting for the manifestation of the Sons and daughters of
God who were born, not by the will of man, but by the power and wisdom of God.
For you have been called out to be a chosen generation to manifest the riches
and goodness of His grace through the life of Christ within you.
The truth is plain to see for those who are born of the Spirit. For we have
received the Spirit of love, power, and a sound mind so that we are not tossed
about by every wind of doctrine. Now we are the children of God who are led by
His Spirit. We have been quickened, born again of His Spirit to proclaim the
Good News - Isaiah 61.
We have been changed; we have received a renewed heart and spirit. In Christ
Jesus we can do all things. By submitting to God’s will we have received
eternal life; we were chosen to serve God by His calling is His enabling; the
fruit of His Spirit works in our life; and, we have been called out of darkness
and into the marvelous life in Christ.
DISCIPLESHIP TO CHRIST ALONE!
Discipleship to Christ empowers to live
passionately, to grasp the blessings of God’s unmerited presence, and His
Spirit to work in our lives though ...
1.
understanding the concept of
being members of the body of Christ
2.
sharing in Jesus sufferings and
in His glory
3.
learning more about God’s wisdom
and grace
4.
laying a foundation for spiritual growth and appreciating individual
differences
5.
consoling, comforting,
encouraging and overcoming
6.
enabling us to overcome obstacles
such as trials and tribulations
7.
seeking out and knowing God’s
will
8.
witnessing and encouraging
other’s through everyday activities
9.
validating others as essential
members of the body of Christ
10.
working with others and finding satisfaction in life
11.
empowers the people of this world to change
12.
teachings people to rely on the Holy Spirit working in us
13.
providing us as individuals with His Spirit in us to overcome habitual
sin
The essence of a healthy faith is to trust God
and oneself. To know oneself is worthy of God’s love completes my need. My joy
comes from knowing of God’s everlasting love, while my happiness comes from
living out my faith as God intended. Being free from condemnation sets me free
to live life passionately and this empowers my spirit to respond to God’s
desires for my life. And, I know my character is divinely inspired by the fact
that I know, ‘I am accepted in Christ and belong to God!’
The power to live obediently comes from actually
living in obedience. When I make a conscious choice to serve God, I think and
reason scripturally, this reinforces my awareness of God working in my life.
When I behave appropriately and my life works, I am more likely to obey God’s
moral laws. As my faith in God grows in the light of trials and tribulations I
am more likely to persist (persevere under trial). As I persevere and succeed
more often, I reinforce my belief system, which becomes self-perpetuating.
Obedience brings self-respect and attracts the same appropriate behavior from
others.
Appropriate behavior allows us to feel better
and allows us to live better - to respond to challenges and opportunities more
resourcefully and appropriately. Now I can believe with God in my life that,
“We can do all things ‘in Christ!’” Humility is God given and comes from
knowing that God through Christ enables us to do all things through Him, by Him
and of Him. I am God’s handiwork prepared to walk into good works with Him.
Our daily personal commitment to continual
growth in the knowledge and wisdom of God comes from His Spirit working in you.
By making a choice we began the journey to a deeper understanding of the truth
and this choice will lead to a more personal and intimate relationship with God,
our Lord Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit.
The course is designed to reveal the
nature of the flesh at war with His divinely created image and likeness of Him
in us. The steps to overcome the works of the flesh will immediately begin
to benefit your walk in the Spirit and life. In this work, the keys to the
Victorious Life come to light through Christ in you, the hope of glory.
Now is the day and time. God’s desire
is to reveal Christ’s life being lived through us as sons and daughters of the
Most High God, Elohim. If our faith in God is to give spiritual life it must be
based on the truth. To live with passion we must experience His life working
through us on a daily basis. For our life to be eternally affected by the Word
of God we must come to the banqueting table and dine. God will more than
satisfy every need we have. Truly, the Spirit of God is willing to manifest His
presence with those who have faith.
By a conscious decision we have acted in faith
toward God. Now all of creation is waiting for the manifestation of the Sons
and Daughters of God who were born, not by the will of man, but by the power and
wisdom of God. For we have been called out to be a chosen generation of Kings
and Priests to manifest the riches and goodness of His grace through the life of
Christ within you. The truth is plain to see for those who are born
of the Spirit. For we have received the Spirit of love, power, and a sound mind
so that we are not tossed about by every wind of doctrine. Scripture declares
that we are the children of God who are led by His Spirit. We have been
quickened, born again of His Spirit to proclaim the Good News that there is no
condemnation in Christ Jesus.
We have been changed; we have received a renewed
heart and spirit. We can do all things in Christ to accommodate God’s will. We
have received eternal life. We choose each day to serve God – His calling is
His enabling. We see the fruit of the Spirit working in our lives. We have
been called out of darkness and into the marvelous light
of His life in us. We reflect Christ life in us, and yet, there are reasons we
do not serve God with our total being, and embrace the Cross. We serve
half-heartedly until the old way is severed.
Through the old gates of
memories Satan places obstacles to the Cross. The enemy opposes the Holy
Spirit’s desire for us to embrace Christ’s substitutionary death and attacks the
work of Jesus. Satan does not want us to believe that Jesus’ sacrifice is less
than adequate for our total redemption.
There is no way or need to improve on the work
of the Cross. The more dependent we become on Jesus work, the deeper our
understanding is of the sufficiency of His work accomplished on Golgotha. The
only thing that stands in our way of victory is unbelief. Here are some
obstacles to the Cross we need ‘self’ to die too and begin to live ‘in Christ’:
1. Fear of humiliation, failure, and rejection -
1 Pe. 5:5,6
2. Bitterness - from past hurts, blanket
forgiveness just covers up pain
3. Unforgiveness – we may need to stop dragging
around the ‘ball and chain’
4. Seeking benefits of Christ instead of Christ
Himself
5. Unbelief or spiritual deterioration - He.
3:19; 4:2
6. No conviction of Flesh (self). Therefore,
there is no need for death
7. Demonic interference; accepting the fact that
we may need to be set free
8. Trying to live the principle or concept of
the exchanged life - just let Christ live it
Once the believer has entered into
identification the presenting problems should be much easier to deal with.
Having given up all their rights will free them to look at previous problems
from a different perspective. They are now opportunities for the life of Christ
to be manifested. The following issues can now be seen through Christ’s life
in us:
Emotions Righteousness Victory
Self-worth Indwelling sin/power of sin Behavior Marriage roles Forgiveness
Child-rearing Identification Sexual relationships Personal
Responsibility
Trusting Jesus as my Life means that moment by
moment I am free to choose to cooperate with the Holy Spirit to ...
GIVE UP THE NEED TO BE:
|
BE WILLING TO BE
(feel): |
TRUST CHRIST
AS MY: |
Accepted |
Rejected |
Life |
Acceptable |
Unacceptable |
Source/Provision |
Avoid Conflict |
Confront |
Intimate Partner |
Understood |
Misunderstood |
Sense of "OK"ness |
In Control |
Out of Control |
Acceptance |
Perfect |
Make Mistakes |
"Right"eousness |
Successful |
Fail |
Best Friend |
Seen as a Success |
Seen as a Failure |
Father/Daddy |
Competent |
Inadequate |
Husband/Brother |
Strong |
Weak |
Adequacy |
Stay Angry/Hold a Grudge |
Forgive/Cancel Debt
|
Identity |
Loved |
Unloved |
Comfort/Peace |
Smart |
Dumb |
Reputation |
Treated Fairly
|
Mistreated
|
Strength/Support |
Rescued |
Abandoned |
Protector |
Listened to |
Ignored |
Savior |
Encouraged |
Put Down/Criticized |
Defender |
Noticed |
Invisible |
Security |
Appreciated |
Taken for Granted |
Confidence |
Respected |
Viewed as Insignificant |
Significance |
Trusted |
Viewed with Suspicion |
Wisdom |
Defend Myself |
Falsely Accused |
Sufficiency |
Married |
Single |
Fullness |
Have
Companionship |
Alone |
And
Through Life In Christ
|
Comfortable |
In Pain |
I
Have |
Honored |
Embarrassed |
Boldness/Confidence |
Proud |
Humbled/Humiliated |
Accept All Others |
Healthy |
Sick |
Share All Things |
Financially Secure |
Poor/Go Bankrupt |
Love The Unlovable |
Right |
Wrong |
Am Totally "Free" |
EVIDENCE OF SURRENDER — A BROKEN HEART AND
CONTRITE SPIRIT
1. All rights surrendered
2. Willing to be rejected
3. Transparent - willing to share weakness
4. Vulnerable - willing to share failures
5. A sense of total inadequacy in self
strength - 2 Co. 3:5
6. A sense of adequacy in Christ through His
strength - Phil. 4:12; 2 Co. 3:6
7. Trusting God in everything - resting even
with external turmoil
8. Obedience out of love motive because I want
to, not because I have to
9. Recognizing power in weakness - 2 Co. 12:10
10. Willing to be weak
11. Willing to fail
12. A readiness to let others receive credit
13. Genuine humility; understanding who we are
‘In Christ’
14. Placing value upon those who have little or
no value to yourself, loving the unlovely
15. A readiness to affirm (build-up) others
16. Teachable, willing to change our point of
view for God’s viewpoint from others
17. Willing to be out of control - willing to
allow Christ to take control
18. Willing to be misunderstood - motives do not
need to be vindicated
19. Willing to be broken again - willing to
fellowship with His sufferings
WHAT JESUS DID FOR US
THE LAW OF THE SPIRIT
OF LIFE IN JESUS CHRIST -ROMANS 8:1-2
I am justified (completely and made righteous)
Therefore, having been justified by faith, we
have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, -- Rom 5:1
I died with Christ and died to the power of
sin's rule on my life
What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin
that grace may abound? Certainly not!
How shall we who died to sin live any longer in
it? Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus
were baptized into His death? Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism
into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the
Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. For if we have been
united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the
likeness of His resurrection, knowing this, that our old man was crucified with
Him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be
slaves of sin. -- Rom 6:1-6
I am free from condemnation
There is therefore now no condemnation to those
who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according
to the Spirit. -- Rom 8:1
I have been put into Christ by God's doing
But of Him (God) you are in Christ Jesus, who
became for us wisdom from God; and righteousness and sanctification and
redemption; -- 1 Cor 1:30
I have received the Spirit of God into my life
that I might know the things freely given to me by God
Now we have received, not the spirit of the
world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that have
been freely given to us by God. -- 1 Cor 2:12
I have been given the mind (attitude) of Christ
For ‘who has known the mind of the LORD that he
may instruct Him?’ But we have the mind of Christ. -- 1 Cor 2:16
I am bought with a price. I am not my own. I
belong to God.
Or do you not know that your body is the temple
of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your
own? For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in
your spirit, which are God's.-1 Cor 6:19-20
I received the Holy Spirit as a pledge (a
deposit/down payment) guaranteeing my inheritance to come
Now He who establishes us with you in Christ and
has anointed us is God -- 2 Cor 1:21
In Him you also trusted, after you heard the
word of truth, the gospel of your salvation; in whom also, having believed, you
were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise, who is the guarantee of our
inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, to the praise of
His glory. -- Eph 1:13,14
Since I have died, I no longer live for myself,
but for Him (Christ).
For the love of Christ compels us, because we
judge thus: that if One died for all, then all died; and He died for all, that
those who live should live no longer for them-selves, but for Him who died for
them and rose again. -- 2 Cor 5:14
The life I am now living is Christ's life. He
lives His life through me, if I let Him
‘I have been crucified with Christ; it is no
longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the
flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.’
-- Gal 2:20
I am blessed with every spiritual blessing,
chosen in Christ before the foundation of the world, to be adopted as a son
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus
Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places
in Christ, just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that
we should be holy and without blame before Him in love, having predestined us to
adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of
His will, -- Eph 1:3-5
I have been redeemed, forgiven, and am a
recipient of His lavish grace
In Him we have redemption through His blood, the
forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace which He made to abound
toward us in all wisdom and prudence, -- Eph 1:7-8
I have been made alive together with Christ
... even when we were dead in trespasses, made
us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), -- Eph 2:5
I have been raised up and seated with Christ in
heaven
... and raised us up together, and made us sit
together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, -- Eph 2:6
I have direct access to God through the Spirit
For through Him we both have access by one
Spirit to the Father. -- Eph 2:18
I may approach God with boldness, freedom and
confidence
...in whom we have boldness and access with
confidence through faith in Him. -- Eph 3:12
I have been delivered (rescued) from the domain
of darkness (Satan's rule) -- Col
1:13
He has delivered us from the power of darkness
and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love,
I am redeemed and forgiven all my sins (the debt
against me canceled)
... in whom we have redemption through His
blood, the forgiveness of sins. -- Col 1:14
And you, being dead in your trespasses and the
uncircumcision of your flesh, He has made alive together with Him, having
forgiven you all trespasses, having wiped out the handwriting of requirements
that was against us, which was contrary to us. And He has taken it out of the
way, having nailed it to the Cross. -- Col 2:13,14
I am in Christ and He is in me
To them God willed to make known what are the
riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles: which is Christ in you, the
hope of glory. -- Col 1:27
I have been firmly rooted in Christ and am now
being built up in Him
As you have therefore received Christ Jesus the
Lord, so walk in Him, rooted and built up in Him and established in the faith,
as you have been taught, abounding in it with thanksgiving. -- Col 2:6,7
I have been made complete in Christ and my old,
unregenerate nature has been removed
... and you are complete in Him, who is the head
of all principality and power. In Him you were also circumcised with the
circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the sins of the
flesh, by the circumcision of Christ, -- Col 2:10-11
I have been buried, raised, and made alive with
Christ
... buried with Him in baptism, in which you
also were raised with Him through faith in the working of God, who raised Him
from the dead. And you, being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of
your flesh, He has made alive together with Him, having forgiven you all
trespasses, -- Col 2:12
I died and God raised us up with Christ and my
life now hidden with Christ in God.
If then you were raised with Christ, seek those
things which are above, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God. Set
your mind on things above, not on things on the earth. For you died, and your
life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who is our life appears, then
you also will appear with Him in glory. -- Col 3:1-4
I am given a spirit of power, love and a sound
mind (self-discipline)
For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but
of power and of love and of a sound mind. -- 2 Tim 1:7
I have been saved and called (set apart)
according to God's doing
(God) who has saved us and called us
with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own
purpose and grace which was given to us in Christ Jesus before time began, -- 2
Tim 1:9
(Salvation is) not by works of
righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us,
through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit, -- Titus
3:5
Because I am sanctified and am one with the one
who Sanctifies, the Lord Jesus Christ
For both He who sanctifies and those who are
being sanctified are all of one, for which reason He is not ashamed to call them
brethren, -- Heb 2:11
I have a right to come boldly to the throne of
God’s grace to find mercy in time of need
Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of
grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need. -- Heb
4:16
Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the
knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord, as His divine power has given to us all
things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who
called us by glory and virtue, by which have been given to us exceedingly great
and precious promises, that through these you may be partakers of the divine
nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. -2 Pet
1:2-4