Who am I?
I am born again…through the living and enduring word of God. (1 Peter 1:23)
I am a child of God. (John 1:12)
I am SAVED by grace through faith. (Ephesians 2:8-9)
I am loved by God and He gave his one and only Son for me. (John 3:16)
I am a new creation in Christ; the old has gone and the new has come! (2 Corinthians 5:17)
I am helped by God. (Hebrews 4:16)
I am reconciled to God. (Romans 5:11)
I am not condenmed by God. (Romans 8:1)
I am justified. (Romans 5:1)
I am Christ's ambassador. (2 Corinthians 5:20)
I am COMPLETELY forgiven. (Colossians 1:14)
I am tenderly loved by God. (Jeremiah 31:3)
I am the sweet fragrance of Christ to God. (2 Corinthians 2:15)
I am a temple in which God dwells. (1 Corinthians 3:16)
I am blameless and beyond reproach. (Colossians 1:22)
I am the salt of the earth. (Matthew 5:13)
I am a branch on Christ's vine. (John 15:1,5)
I am Christ's friend. (John 15:5)
I am chosen by Christ to bear fruit. (John 15:16)
I am a joint heir with Christ, sharing His inheritance with Him. (Romans 8:17)
I am united to the Lord, one spirit with Him. (1 Corinthians 6:17)
I am a member of Christ's member. (1 Corinthians 12:27)
I am a saint. (Ephesians 1:1)
I am hidden with Christ in God. (Colossians 3:3)
I am chosen by God, holy and dearly loved. (Colossians 3:12)
I am a child of the light. (1 Thessalonians 5:5)
I am holy, and I share in God's heavenly calling. (Hebrews 3:1)
I am SANCTIFIED. (Hebrews 2:11)
I am one of God's living stones, being built up in Christ as a spiritual house. (1 Peter 2:5)
I am a member of a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation a people for God's own possession and chosen race, created to sing His praises. (1 Peter 2:9-10)
I am firmly rooted and built up in Christ. (Colossians 2:7)
I am born of God, and the evil one CANNOT touch me. (1 John 5:18)
I am a prince (princess) in God's kingdom. (John 1:12; 1 Timothy 6:15)
I am assured that all things are working together for good. (Romans 8:28)
I am free from any condemning charges against me. (Romans 8:31f)
I am confident that the good work that God has begun in me will be perfected. (Philippians 1:6)
I am a citizen of heaven. (Philippians 3:20)
I am a personal witness of Christ's. (Acts 1:8)
I am God's coworker. (2 Corinthians 6:1, 1 Corinthians 3:9)
I am seated with Christ in the heavenly realm. (Ephesians 2:6)
I am God's workmaship. (Ephesians 2:10)
About Me
- ChristieFeatures
- Christie Features :) I'm 17, and a complete Jesus freak. I used to love all music, now I only want worship. God's presence is amazing. In fact, it's the best thing on earth. You'll find a lot of my blogs will be related to my faith, probably all of them in fact. Hope you enjoy my blog :)
Sunday, 12 September 2010
Wednesday, 7 July 2010
Update. 6 months later.
This is probably going to be a bit short, but hey! Short and snappy is best :)
It's also probably going to be a bit outward, as it's quite personal x]
On the 20th January 2010, everyone at Ignite wrote down on paper where they were with God, what needs to change, what they want to do e.t.c.. and put it in a brown paper envelope.
Well, today, 7th July 2010, we got our envelopes back! :)
And it was very interesting for many of us to see how we've developed in our relationship with God from then to now, many of us can't remember feeling like that in the first place! Which is pretty awesome (especially for me, as mine wasn't particularly good)
The first question was about how we are with God,
I put something along the lines of
"Not good. It needs a lot of work, I'm quite far"
Contrast to how I'm feeling now, I'm awesome with God!
The second question about where we want to be with God,
I put something along the lines of
"I want to be close to God"
And weheey! I am :D things are awesome, and actually when you look back through it, you don't actually realise just how much you have progressed with the Lord.
The third question was about what must change in order for us to get to (question 2),
I put something like
"I need to stop doing things which God doesn't approve of. Stay away from bad influences and don't listen to bad music"
And I've done that :)
I realised that actually, following God and his word is the best thing to do! His way is the best and the only.
He's revealing a lot to me, ways in which he speaks and why listening is very important.
He's guiding me a lot with listening, like for example now, I'm listening to him as I type, and it feels great! As I know what I'm typing is what he wants.
I'm not perfect and I must be like a child, always ready to learn, as there IS much to learn! So when he says to do something, I must do it. And actually, when you do do what God says, it's actually way better, and you feel a great sense of obediance to God's will :)
It's also probably going to be a bit outward, as it's quite personal x]
On the 20th January 2010, everyone at Ignite wrote down on paper where they were with God, what needs to change, what they want to do e.t.c.. and put it in a brown paper envelope.
Well, today, 7th July 2010, we got our envelopes back! :)
And it was very interesting for many of us to see how we've developed in our relationship with God from then to now, many of us can't remember feeling like that in the first place! Which is pretty awesome (especially for me, as mine wasn't particularly good)
The first question was about how we are with God,
I put something along the lines of
"Not good. It needs a lot of work, I'm quite far"
Contrast to how I'm feeling now, I'm awesome with God!
The second question about where we want to be with God,
I put something along the lines of
"I want to be close to God"
And weheey! I am :D things are awesome, and actually when you look back through it, you don't actually realise just how much you have progressed with the Lord.
The third question was about what must change in order for us to get to (question 2),
I put something like
"I need to stop doing things which God doesn't approve of. Stay away from bad influences and don't listen to bad music"
And I've done that :)
I realised that actually, following God and his word is the best thing to do! His way is the best and the only.
He's revealing a lot to me, ways in which he speaks and why listening is very important.
He's guiding me a lot with listening, like for example now, I'm listening to him as I type, and it feels great! As I know what I'm typing is what he wants.
I'm not perfect and I must be like a child, always ready to learn, as there IS much to learn! So when he says to do something, I must do it. And actually, when you do do what God says, it's actually way better, and you feel a great sense of obediance to God's will :)
Wednesday, 30 June 2010
The current of life.
Hi everyone, just thought I'd share something I felt prompted to by the Lord. (:
I know a few of you think it's aimed at you, which I can tell you now, it isn't.
Okay, where to start.
Those of you who go to Ignite will know George did something on false vines, and this kind of follows on from that.
A lot of Christians will hold onto things, which are not from God. Satan is a clever little devil (literally) and he will use things to pull you away from Christ. Things which you can see as completely harmless. These are the things which we need to keep an eye out and get rid of.
I like to say,
You need to let go of your current life, in order to live
(I love that little thing ;])
I'm going to dive into this and link to relationships, as I have had personal experience with this in particular.
Last summer/spring (end of June beggining of July) I got into a relationship with a non-christian (who I shan't name of facebook, but a few of you know he is)
I thought everything was all fine and dandy, and this is what God wanted, in actual fact I thought this guy was good for my faith. I thought I loved him, when infact pure love comes from God, which this didn't. He wanted to do things (sexual) and I didn't really want to (because of my faith) yet, he would always use excuses such as "If you love me you'll forget all that" and at the time, being so far from God, I did do some sexual stuff with him which I'm not going to mention on Facebook.
Despite everyone saying to me, "He's no good" and "This isn't God's will" I still stayed in a relationship with him, with the mindset I'll break up with him eventually, I love him too much, no one understands
Of course, the longer you keep something like this, the further you're going to become from God, and the more it's going to hurt when you finally do let go.
I then went to Faith Camp (little plug for Kingdom Faith there ;] and I advise you all to go, it's so awesome)
I felt God speak to me on the Wednesday night, and basically said that I shouldn't be with this guy because he's not good for me, let alone my faith.
I had aboslutely no intention of letting go of this guy, and I did.
Yes it hurt. I was crying my eyes out cudding Laura Tucker (love you chick ;]) when I broke up with him.
Also what hurt more, was the fact that he had a new girlfriend a few hours later.
Thing is satan is clever. He will use the most seemingly harmless thing to do the most damage to you.
We need to stay away from any kind of temptation, plugging into things which ARE of God. (:
Recently, I deleted all of my screamy/shouty death metal, which I so loved, in order to be stronger in my faith. And I feel great! It sounds silly to say music can have a heavy influence on your life, but it can! I've been sleeping better, I'm usually happy and willing to do some actual proper revision (xD) Not to mention, I feel so much better Spiritually in God. :D
The moral of this not-too-lovely story is
You need to let go of your current life, in order to live
(:
I know a few of you think it's aimed at you, which I can tell you now, it isn't.
Okay, where to start.
Those of you who go to Ignite will know George did something on false vines, and this kind of follows on from that.
A lot of Christians will hold onto things, which are not from God. Satan is a clever little devil (literally) and he will use things to pull you away from Christ. Things which you can see as completely harmless. These are the things which we need to keep an eye out and get rid of.
I like to say,
You need to let go of your current life, in order to live
(I love that little thing ;])
I'm going to dive into this and link to relationships, as I have had personal experience with this in particular.
Last summer/spring (end of June beggining of July) I got into a relationship with a non-christian (who I shan't name of facebook, but a few of you know he is)
I thought everything was all fine and dandy, and this is what God wanted, in actual fact I thought this guy was good for my faith. I thought I loved him, when infact pure love comes from God, which this didn't. He wanted to do things (sexual) and I didn't really want to (because of my faith) yet, he would always use excuses such as "If you love me you'll forget all that" and at the time, being so far from God, I did do some sexual stuff with him which I'm not going to mention on Facebook.
Despite everyone saying to me, "He's no good" and "This isn't God's will" I still stayed in a relationship with him, with the mindset I'll break up with him eventually, I love him too much, no one understands
Of course, the longer you keep something like this, the further you're going to become from God, and the more it's going to hurt when you finally do let go.
I then went to Faith Camp (little plug for Kingdom Faith there ;] and I advise you all to go, it's so awesome)
I felt God speak to me on the Wednesday night, and basically said that I shouldn't be with this guy because he's not good for me, let alone my faith.
I had aboslutely no intention of letting go of this guy, and I did.
Yes it hurt. I was crying my eyes out cudding Laura Tucker (love you chick ;]) when I broke up with him.
Also what hurt more, was the fact that he had a new girlfriend a few hours later.
Thing is satan is clever. He will use the most seemingly harmless thing to do the most damage to you.
We need to stay away from any kind of temptation, plugging into things which ARE of God. (:
Recently, I deleted all of my screamy/shouty death metal, which I so loved, in order to be stronger in my faith. And I feel great! It sounds silly to say music can have a heavy influence on your life, but it can! I've been sleeping better, I'm usually happy and willing to do some actual proper revision (xD) Not to mention, I feel so much better Spiritually in God. :D
The moral of this not-too-lovely story is
You need to let go of your current life, in order to live
(:
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