Truth That Transforms
Bob Yandian
God sees you as already perfect and complete in Christ. Once you are born again, you have God’s approval! He loves you!! You are acceptable to Him, not because of what you have done, but because of what Jesus has done for you.
The whole idea of grace, of getting something you haven’t earned or deserved, is so foreign to the human way of thinking that it is hard at first to believe it is really true.
It is vitally important that you know what God says about you and that you agree with Him regarding your life in Christ. Here are just a few of the many unconditional promises God has made to all believers:
Because I am a believer in Jesus Christ, I can rejoice that my name is written in heaven. “Rejoice because your names are written in heaven.” (Luke 10:20).
I have peace with God through Jesus Christ. “Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ” (Romans 5:1).
Jesus will never, never, never leave me. “For He, Himself has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you” (Hebrews 13:5-6).
Jesus is continuously making intercession for me. “Therefore He is also able to save to the uttermost those who come to God through Him since He always lives to make intercession for them” (Hebrews 7:25).
He will teach me all things and guide me into all truth. '“However, when He, the Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth” (John 16:13).
I have been acquitted of all sin through Jesus Christ. “For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him” (2 Corinthians 5:21).
He has dismissed all evidence against me, taking it out of the way, nailing it to the cross. “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” (Colossians 2:14)
Through the obedience of Jesus, I have been made righteous - made acceptable to God and brought into right standing with Him. “For as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so also by one Man’s obedience, many will be made righteous” (Romans 5:19).
Jesus made me free, so I am free indeed. “Therefore if the Son makes you free, you shall be free indeed” (John 8:36).
I am a new creation in Christ Jesus.
Old things have passed away.
All things have become new. “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new” (2 Corinthians 5:17).
I am God’s workmanship (handiwork) created in Christ Jesus unto good works. “For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them” (Ephesians 2:10).
God is working in me both to desire and do His good pleasure. “For it is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure” (Philippians 2:13).
I am complete in Him. “and you are complete in Him, who is the head of all principality and power.” (Colossians 2:10).
I have been blessed with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ Jesus. “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” (Ephesians 1:3).
I have been raised up with Jesus and now sit with Him in heavenly places. “And raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus” (Ephesians 2:6).
I can do all things through Christ who keeps on strengthening me. “ I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me” (Philippians 4:13).
God has not given me a spirit of fear, but a spirit of love, power, and soundness of mind. “For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind” (2 Timothy 1:7).
Nothing can separate me from God’s love: He and I are inseparable. “Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
As it is written: “For Your sake, we are killed all day long; We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.”
Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord” (Romans 8:35-39).
Read through the above scriptures again and again. Memorize them so you can think of them throughout the day. As you do, you will come to know the benefits of trading places, of choosing to be “in Christ.” God’s Word will change your way of thinking - and transform you from the inside out!
