My Identity in Christ

I have been justified - completely forgiven and made righteous.

- Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. (Romans
5:1)

I died with Christ and died to the power of sin's rule over my life.
- We know that our old self was crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that
we would no longer be enslaved to sin. (Romans 6:6)
- For by a single offering He has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified. (Hebrews 10:14)

I am free forever from condemnation.

- There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. (Romans 8:1)

I have been placed into Christ by God's doing.

- And because of him you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, righteousness and
sanctification and redemption, (1 Corinthians 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 understand the
things freely given us by God. (1 Corinthians 2:12)

I have been given the mind of Christ

- "For who has understood the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?" But we have the mind of Christ. (1
Corinthians 2:16)

I have been bought with a price; I am not my own; I belong to God

- Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not
your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body. (1 Corinthians 6:19-20)

I have been established, anointed and sealed by God in Christ, and I have been given the Holy Spirit as a
pledge guaranteeing my inheritance to come
- And it is God who establishes us with you in Christ, and has anointed us, and who has also put his seal on us and
given us his Spirit in our hearts as a guarantee. (2 Corinthians 1:21-22)
- In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed
with the promised Holy Spirit, who is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it, to the praise
of his glory. (Ephesians 1:13-14)

Since I have died, I no longer live for myself, but for Christ.
- For the love of Christ controls us, because we have concluded this: that one has died for all, therefore all have
died; and he died for all, that those who live might no longer live for themselves but for him who for their sake died
and was raised. (2 Corinthians 5:14-15)

I have been made righteous.

- For our sake He made Him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.
(2 Corinthians 5:21)

I have been crucified with Christ and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. The life I am now
living is Christ's life.
- I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the
flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. (Galatians 2:20)

I have been blessed with every spiritual blessing.

- Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing
in the heavenly places, (Ephesians 1:3)

I was chosen in Christ before the foundation of the world to be holy and am without blame before Him.
- even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him.
(Ephesians 1:4)
I was predestined - determined by God - to be adopted as God's son.
- In love he predestined us for adoption as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will, to the
praise of his glorious grace, with which he has blessed us in the Beloved. (Ephesians 1:5-6)

I have been redeemed and forgiven, and I am a recipient of His lavish grace.
- In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his
grace, which he lavished upon us, in all wisdom and insight (Ephesians 1:7-8)

I have been made alive together with Christ.

- But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our
trespasses, made us alive together with Christ— by grace you have been saved— (Ephesians 2:4-5)

I have been raised up and seated with Christ in heaven.

- and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, so that in the coming
ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. (Ephesians 2:6-7))

I have direct access to God through the Spirit.

- For through him we both have access in one Spirit to the Father. (Ephesians 2:18)

I may approach God with boldness, freedom and confidence.

- This was according to the eternal purpose that he has realized in Christ Jesus our Lord, in whom we have
boldness and access with confidence through our faith in him. (Ephesians 3:11-12)

I have been rescued from the domain of Satan's rule and transferred to the kingdom of God.
- He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son,
(Colossians 1:13)

I have been redeemed and forgiven of all my sins; the debt against me has been cancelled
- in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins. (Colossians 1:14)

Christ Himself is in me.

- To them God chose to make known how great among the Gentiles are the riches of the glory of this mystery, which
is Christ in you, the hope of glory. (Colossians 1:27)

I am firmly rooted in Christ and am now being built in Him.

- Therefore, as you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him, rooted and built up in him and established in the
faith, just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving. (Colossians 2:6-7)

I have been spiritually circumcised. My old unregenerate nature has been removed.
- In him also you were circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the flesh, by
the circumcision of Christ, (Colossians 2:11)

I have been made complete in Christ

- For in him the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily, and you have been filled in him, who is the head of all rule and
authority. (Colossians 2:9-10)

I have been buried, raised and made alive in Christ.

- having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the powerful
working of God, who raised him from the dead. And you, who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision
of your flesh, God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses, (Colossians 2:12-13)

I died with Christ and I have been raised up with Christ. My life is now hidden with Christ in God. Christ is
now my life.
- If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand
of God. Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. For you have died, and your life is
hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.
(Colossians 3:1-4)
I have been given a spirit of power, love and self-discipline
- for God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control. (2 Timothy 1:7)

I have been saved and set apart according to God's doing.

who saved us and called us to a holy calling, not because of our works but because of his own purpose and grace,
which he gave us in Christ Jesus before the ages began, (2 Timothy 1:9)

But when the goodness and loving kindness of God our Savior appeared, he saved us, not because of works done
by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy
Spirit, (Titus 3:4-5)

Because I am sanctified and am one with the Sanctifier, He is not ashamed to call me brother.
For he who sanctifies and those who are sanctified all have one source. That is why he is not ashamed to call them
brothers, (Hebrews 2:11)

I have the right to come boldly before the throne of God to find mercy and grace in time of need.
Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in
time of need. (Hebrews 4:16)

In have been given exceedingly great and precious promises by God by which I am a partaker of God's
divine nature.
His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who
called us to his own glory and excellence, by which he has granted to us his precious and very great promises, so
that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the
world because of sinful desire. (2 Peter 1:3-4)

Source:
http://www.prayerpowerministries.com/pdf/handouts/004-HANDOUT-myidentifyinchrist.pdf