3. IDENTITY ...a subjective sense as well as an observable
quality of personal sameness and continuity, paired with some
belief in the sameness and continuity of some shared world image.
(Erikson, 1970.)
4. Many Christians struggles in the way they perceived their
selves.
5. The I Statement I am unworthy I am afraid to share I dont
know how to pray I dont feel praising I dont have a purpose in life
I am not maturing
6. The I Statement This negative words defines who you are
because you are claiming it.
7. God Created You For you created my inmost being; you knit me
together in my mothers womb. I praise you because I am fearfully
and wonderfully made - Psalms 139:13-14
8. God Knows You Before I formed you in the womb I knew you,
before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet
to the nations. - Jeremiah 1:5
9. God Has a Plan for You all the days ordained for me were
written in your book before one of them came to be. - Psalms
139:16
10. He Knows My Name
11. FEAR is one of cause of IDENTITY CRISIS
12. We have confused comfort with peace, belief with faith,
safety with wisdom, wealth with blessing, and existence with life.
- Erwin McManus, Wide Awake
13. We have confused comfort with peace, belief with faith,
safety with wisdom, wealth with blessing, and existence with life.
- Erwin McManus, Wide Awake
14. MATTHEW 5:9 Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be
called children of God.
15. MATTHEW 12:30 This is war, and there is no neutral ground.
If youre not on my side, youre the enemy; if youre not helping,
youre making things worse. (The Message)
16. LOOSING BY DEFAULT Fearful and timid Christians prevent the
world from receiving Gods blessings. Christians want to stay safe
at the expense of the world. We loose the world by default.
17. IDENTITY IN CHRIST EPHESHIANS 1:1-14 1Paul, an apostle of
Christ Jesus by the will of God, To the saints who are in Ephesus,
and are faithful IN CHRIST JESUS: 2Grace to you and peace from God
our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
18. IDENTITY IN CHRIST 3Blessed be the God and Father of our
Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us IN CHRIST with every
spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, 4even as he chose us IN
HIM before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and
blameless before him.
19. IDENTITY IN CHRIST In love 5he predestined us for adoption
as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will,
6to the praise of his glorious grace, with which he has blessed us
IN THE BELOVED. 7IN HIM we have redemption through his blood, the
forgiveness of our trespasses,
20. IDENTITY IN CHRIST according to the riches of his grace,
8which he lavished upon us, in all wisdom and insight 9making known
to us the mystery of his will, according to his purpose, which he
set forth IN CHRIST 10as a plan for the fullness of time, to unite
all things IN HIM, things in heaven and things on earth.
21. IDENTITY IN CHRIST 11IN HIM we have obtained an
inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of
him who works all things according to the counsel of his will, 12so
that we who were the first to hope IN CHRIST might be to the praise
of his glory.
22. IDENTITY IN CHRIST 13IN 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, 14who is the guarantee
of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it, to the praise
of his glory.
23. More often than not we are looking at our abilities rather
than of God. we are looking at our strength rather than thinking
what a mighty God we serve. we are looking at our understanding
rather than trusting God. we are looking at things we cannot do
rather than what God can do through us