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Jesus Christ said in John 14:6, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” Acts 4:12 says, “Salvation is found in no one else (Jesus Christ), for there is no other name under heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved.” Some verses confirming that Jesus is THE ONLY WAY: John 3:16-18
Ephesians 4:4,6
1 John 2:22-23
John 3:36
1 Timothy 1:15
1 John 3:23, 24
John 8:24
1 Timothy 2:5
1 John 5:11,12
John 17:3
Hebrew 7:25
Jude 4
Romans 6:23
1 John 2:1-2
This booklet is designed for those who have a relationship with God, the Father, through faith in Jesus Christ. The promises contained here are for His children. If you are not a child of God and would like to start a relationship with Him, please pray the prayer at the end of the Preface.
Preface One of the first things you were identified with as a small child was your name. Your heavenly Father also knows how important your identity is – that’s why He made you a new creation in Him when you received Jesus Christ as your Lord (2 Corinthians 5:17). God transforms you into the image of Christ as you allow Him to. It is a process. God desires for you to see yourself as being one with Him – righteous in His eyes because of what Jesus Christ did on the cross. See John 17:20-23. One of the reasons you may have lived with defeat, discouragement, or low self-esteem is because you haven’t totally seen yourself through God’s eyes. Perhaps you have only seen yourself through the mirror of your past, what others have said about you, or your experiences. Now it is time to look at yourself through the mirror of God’s Word. Romans 12:2 shows you how to do this. As you spiritually feed yourself daily by reading the Bible, praying, and putting your faith in Christ, God will show you clearly who you are as His Child who trusts and obeys Him. You will begin to see yourself without the mirror of your past, and the lies that you once believed will be replaced by God’s true vision of who you are now that you are united in Christ! This book is offered to you as a starting place to your freedom in Christ. As you read through these pages, open your heart and see for yourself what God has written about you. Confess each promise out loud, mix it with faith, and receive the revelation that you are who God says you are and you have what He says you have. God’s words are exceedingly more powerful than the devil’s lies, and you will experience His power to transform your life when you agree with what He says. Our prayer for you is that you will live your life “in Christ,” becoming
so aware of His love for you and your true identity in Him that you will see yourself through His eyes and reflect His glory to others. Do you have any idea how much God loves you? You are so very valuable! We love you too, and that is why we put out this booklet. Choose to take time today to know and remember who you are in Christ. Allow the Holy Spirit to reveal these truths to you, and your life will never be the same! The Bible tells us in Romans 10:9-10 that if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. If you are not a follower of Christ but realize that you need Him, we invite you to begin your relationship with Him by praying this prayer: “Dear God, I realize that I really need you to rule and reign in my life. I can’t do it myself. I believe that Jesus Christ is Your Son, and the only way to eternal life. I believe that He died for my sins and You raised Him from the dead for my salvation. I repent and turn from my old selfish way of life. I ask you now to forgive me of all my sins and come into my life and be my personal Lord and Savior. Please send Your Holy Spirit to fill me and enable me to live my life in a way that glorifies You. I’m Yours. In Jesus’ Name. Amen.” If you would like to contact a trusted person to pray with, please send an email to prayer@walkingbyfaith.tv. We encourage you to find a Bible-believing church and make friends with God’s children.
“MY HEAVENLY FATHER SAYS, AND I AGREE...” I am the salt of the earth. MATT. 5:13 I am the light of the world. MATT. 5:14 When I speak according to the Word and will of God, heaven responds. MARK 11:23-24 I ask and receive; I seek and find; I knock and the door is opened unto me. LUKE 11:9-10 I have eternal life. JOHN 3:36 I have passed from death into life. JOHN 5:24 Out of my innermost being flows rivers of living water. JOHN 7:38 The truth has set me free. JOHN 8:31-32 If I ask what God has promised, in Jesus’ Name, He will do it. JOHN 14:14 1
“MY HEAVENLY FATHER SAYS, AND I AGREE...” I am in Christ, and Christ is in me. JOHN 14:20 I have peace. JOHN 14:27 I am loved by Jesus. JOHN 15: 9 I am loved by the Father. JOHN 16:27 I belong to God, I am His. JOHN 17: 9 I am protected from the evil one. JOHN 17:15 I am sanctified in the truth of God’s Word. JOHN 17:17 I have been sent into the world. JOHN 17:18 I have God’s glory. JOHN 17:22 I have forgiveness of sins through Christ. ACTS 13:38 I have been freed from all things. ACTS 13:39 2
“MY HEAVENLY FATHER SAYS, AND I AGREE...” I am among the called of Jesus Christ. ROM. 1:6 I am beloved of God, a saint. ROM. 1:7 I have been justified by faith, and I have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. ROM. 5:1 I have grace through faith. ROM. 5:2 I have perseverance, character, and hope. ROM. 5:3-4 The love of God has been poured out in my heart through Jesus’ death. ROM. 5:5 I have been saved by His life. ROM. 5:10B I reign in life through the one Christ Jesus. ROM. 5:17 I have been made righteous through the obedience of Christ. ROM. 5:19 I have died to sin. ROM. 6: 2 3
“MY HEAVENLY FATHER SAYS, AND I AGREE...” I have been baptized into Christ’s death. ROM. 6:3 I have been raised from the dead to walk in newness of life. ROM. 6: 4 I have been crucified with Christ. ROM. 6:6A I am no longer a slave to sin. ROM. 6:6B I am dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus. ROM. 6:11
I am not under law, but under grace. ROM. 6:14 I am a slave of righteousness. ROM. 6:18 I have now no condemnation. ROM. 8:1 I have been set free from the law of sin and of death. ROM. 8:2
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“MY HEAVENLY FATHER SAYS, AND I AGREE...” I have life in my mortal body through His Spirit who dwells in me. ROM. 8:11 I am a child of God. ROM. 8:16 I am an heir of God and fellow heir with Christ. ROM. 8:17
All things are working together for my good. ROM. 8:28
I have been justified and glorified. ROM. 8:30 I have the measure of faith. ROM. 12: 3 I have been given gifts. ROM. 12: 6 Whether I live or die, I am the Lord’s. ROM. 14:8 I am full of goodness and filled with all knowledge, as it is given by the Holy Spirit. ROM. 15:14 5
“MY HEAVENLY FATHER SAYS, AND I AGREE...” I am a sanctified saint in Jesus Christ. 1 COR. 1:2 I have been given the grace of God in Christ Jesus. 1 COR. 1:4
In Him I have been enriched in every way. 1 COR. 1:5 I am not lacking in any spiritual gift. 1 COR. 1:7 I am called into fellowship with Jesus Christ my Lord. 1 COR. 1:9 I am in Christ Jesus who gives me wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, and redemption. 1 COR. 1:30
I have been given God’s Spirit so I can understand what God has freely given. 1 COR. 2:12 I have the mind of Christ. 1 COR. 2:16 I am God’s fellow-worker, I am God’s field, God’s building. 1 COR. 3:9 6
“MY HEAVENLY FATHER SAYS, AND I AGREE...” I am a temple of God in which the Spirit of God dwells. 1 COR. 3:16 I am a holy temple of God. 1 COR. 3:17 All things belong to me, as I belong to Christ. 1 COR. 3:21-22
I am one spirit with Christ. 1 COR. 6:17 My body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in me. 1 COR. 6:19
I have been bought with a price, and I honor God with my body. 1 COR. 6:20 I belong to Jesus. 1 COR. 7:22 I will be raised from the dead imperishable. 1 COR.15:52
I will put on eternal life. 1 COR. 15:53 7
“MY HEAVENLY FATHER SAYS, AND I AGREE...” I am comforted by God, so I can comfort others. 2 COR. 1:4
I am delivered from the peril of death. 2 COR. 1:10 He anointed me and put His seal of ownership on me. 2 COR. 1:22 I am a sweet aroma of the knowledge of Christ. 2 COR. 2:14
I am a fragrance of Christ to God among both the saved and the lost. 2 COR. 2:15 I am a letter of Christ. 2 COR. 3:3 I am a minister of the new covenant of the Spirit of life. 2 COR. 3: 6 I am being transformed into the likeness of the Lord ever increasingly with glory from God. 2 COR. 3:18 8
“MY HEAVENLY FATHER SAYS, AND I AGREE...” I have received mercy and do not lose heart. 2 COR. 4:1
I have the Holy Spirit in my body. 2 COR. 4:7 The life of Jesus is manifested in my body. 2 COR. 4:10 My inner man is being renewed day by day. 2 COR. 4:16 I have a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. 2 COR. 5:1 I live by faith, not by sight. 2 COR. 5:7 I am a new creation in Christ, old things have passed away, and all things have become new. 2 COR. 5:17 I am reconciled to God through Christ, and I have been given the ministry of reconciliation. 2 COR. 5:18 I am an ambassador for Christ, imploring people to be reconciled to God. 2 COR. 5:20 9
“MY HEAVENLY FATHER SAYS, AND I AGREE...” I am the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. 2 COR. 5:21
I have grace from God so I can abound in every good work. 2 COR. 9:8 I am Christ’s. 2 COR. 10:7 Jesus Christ is in me. 2 COR. 13:5 I am crucified with Christ. I no longer live, but Christ lives in me, and the life I live now I live by faith. GAL. 2:20
I am a child of God through faith in Christ Jesus. GAL. 3:26
I am one in Christ Jesus with all believers. GAL. 3:28 I belong to Christ. I am an heir according to the promise. GAL. 3:29 10
“MY HEAVENLY FATHER SAYS, AND I AGREE...” I am a child of God. GAL. 4:6 I am no longer a slave, but a child; and if a child, then an heir through God. GAL. 4:7 I have the fruit of the Spirit which is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. GAL. 5:22-23 I have grace and peace. EPH. 1:2 I am blessed with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ. EPH. 1:3 I am chosen in Him. EPH. 1:4A I am holy and blameless in His sight. EPH. 1:4B I am a child of God through Jesus Christ. EPH. 1:5 I am accepted in the beloved. EPH. 1:6 11
“MY HEAVENLY FATHER SAYS, AND I AGREE...” I have redemption and forgiveness. EPH. 1:7 I have obtained an inheritance. EPH. 1:11 I have been sealed in Him with the promised Holy Spirit. EPH. 1:13 I am seated at Christ’s right hand. EPH. 1:20 I have all things under my feet. EPH. 1:22 I am loved by God. EPH. 2:4 I have been made alive together with Christ. EPH. 2:5 I have been raised with Him and seated with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus. EPH. 2:6 I have been saved by grace through faith – a gift of God. EPH. 2:8
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“MY HEAVENLY FATHER SAYS, AND I AGREE...” I am His workmanship; created in Christ Jesus for good works. EPH. 2:10 I have been brought near to God by the blood of Christ. EPH. 2:13 Christ is my peace. EPH. 2:14 Through Christ I have access in one Spirit to the Father. EPH. 2:18 I am no longer a stranger and alien, but I am a fellow-citizen with the saints. EPH. 2:19A I am a fellow-heir and fellow-member of the Body of Christ. EPH. 3:6A I am a fellow-partaker of the promise in Christ Jesus. EPH. 3:6B In Christ and through faith in Him, we have boldness and confident access to God. EPH. 3:12 13
“MY HEAVENLY FATHER SAYS, AND I AGREE...” I am strengthened with power through His Spirit in my inner man. EPH. 3:16 I am rooted and grounded in Christ’s love. EPH. 3:17 I have a power source within me which is able to do abundantly beyond all that I ask or think. EPH. 3:20 I have been given grace. EPH. 4:7 I put on the new self which, in the likeness of God, has been created in righteousness and holiness. EPH. 4:24
I have been forgiven, so I forgive others. EPH. 4:32 I am confident that He who began a good work in me will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus. PHIL. 1:6 I am filled with the fruit of righteousness through Jesus Christ. PHIL. 1:11 14
“MY HEAVENLY FATHER SAYS, AND I AGREE...” For to me, to live is Christ, and to die is gain. PHIL. 1:21
God is at work within me both to will and to work for His good pleasure. PHIL. 2:13 I am a light in the world. PHIL. 2:15 The peace of God guards my heart and mind as I pray with thanksgiving in the midst of everything. PHIL. 4:6-7
I can do all things through Him who strengthens me. PHIL. 4:13
God shall supply all my needs according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus. PHIL. 4:19 The Father has qualified me to share in the inheritance of the saints in His kingdom of light. COL. 1:12
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“MY HEAVENLY FATHER SAYS, AND I AGREE...” I have been delivered from the domain of darkness and transferred to the kingdom of God’s beloved Son. COL. 1:13 I have redemption and the forgiveness of sins. COL. 1:14
Christ in me; the hope of glory. COL. 1:27 In Christ I have been made complete. COL. 2:10 I have been buried with Christ in baptism. I have been raised up with Him through faith. COL. 2:12 I have been made alive together with Christ Jesus. COL. 2:13A
All my sin debt was paid in full at the cross. COL. 2:14 I have been raised with Christ, and I set my heart on things above. I have died [to my old fleshy self] and my life is hidden with Christ in God. COL. 3:1-3 16
“MY HEAVENLY FATHER SAYS, AND I AGREE...” I have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of the Creator. COL. 3:10 I am rescued by Jesus from the coming wrath. 1 THESS. 1:10
I am taught by God to love others. 1 THESS. 4:9 I will meet the Lord in the air and be with Him forever. 1 THESS. 4:17 I have obtained salvation through [believing in] our Lord Jesus Christ. I THESS. 5:9 I am loved by the Lord. God has chosen me from the beginning for salvation through sanctification by the Spirit and faith in the truth. 2 THESS. 2:13 The faithful Lord will strengthen and protect me from the evil one. 2 THESS. 3:3 I have been called to eternal life. 1 TIM. 6:12 17
“MY HEAVENLY FATHER SAYS, AND I AGREE...” For God has not given me a spirit of fear, but of power and love and a sound mind. 2 TIM.1:7 The Lord has saved me and called me to a holy life, not according to my works, but according to His own purpose and grace which was granted me in Christ Jesus for all eternity. 2 TIM. 1:9 I am convinced that He is able to guard what I have entrusted [released] to Him until that day. 2 TIM. 1:12 The Holy Spirit dwells in me. 2 TIM. 1:14 The Lord has laid up for me the crown of righteousness. 2 TIM. 4:8 He has redeemed me from every lawless deed and purified me for His own possession. TITUS 2:14 The Holy Spirit has been poured out upon me richly through Jesus Christ my Savior. TITUS 3:6 18
“MY HEAVENLY FATHER SAYS, AND I AGREE...” I have been justified by His grace and made an heir having the hope of eternal life. TITUS 3:7 The knowledge of every good thing is in me. PHILEMON 1:6
Angels are sent to minister to me. HEB. 1:14 All things are in subjection to me and are under my feet. HEB. 2:8 I fix my thoughts on Jesus, the apostle and high priest whom I confess. HEB. 3:1 I am the house of Jesus Christ. HEB. 3:6 I have become a partaker of Christ. HEB. 3:14 I have entered into His rest. HEB. 4:3 As God has rested from His work, I have rested from my works. HEB. 4:10 19
“MY HEAVENLY FATHER SAYS, AND I AGREE...” I have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens. HEB. 4:14 I have a high priest who can sympathize with my weaknesses. HEB. 4:15 I approach the throne of grace with confidence, so I may receive mercy and find grace to help me in my time of need. HEB. 4:16 I am saved forever, Christ ever lives to make intercession for me. HEB. 7:25 I have been made holy through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. HEB. 10:10 My heart has been sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and my body washed with pure water. HEB. 10:22
I have a great cloud of witnesses surrounding me. HEB. 12:1
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“MY HEAVENLY FATHER SAYS, AND I AGREE...” God disciplines me for my good that I may share His holiness. HEB. 12:10 I have received a kingdom which cannot be shaken, and I am thankful and worship God. HEB. 12:28 God has said: “Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you.” HEB. 13:5 I am made holy through Jesus’ own blood. HEB. 13:12 Jesus has equipped me in every good thing to do His will, working in me that which is pleasing in His sight. HEB. 13:21 God generously and without reproach gives to me wisdom if I ask Him. JAMES 1:5 The Lord has promised to me the crown of life when I persevere under trial. JAMES 1:12
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“MY HEAVENLY FATHER SAYS, AND I AGREE...” In His great mercy, I have been born again into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. 1 PETER 1:3 I have obtained an inheritance which can never perish, spoil or fade away, reserved in heaven for me. 1 PETER 1:4 I am protected by the power of God through faith until the coming of the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time. 1 PETER 1:5 Because He is holy, I am holy. 1 PETER 1:16 I was not redeemed with perishable things like silver or gold but with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or defect. 1 PETER 1:18-19 I have been born again, not of seed which is perishable but imperishable, that is, through the living and abiding Word of God. 1 PETER 1:23 22
“MY HEAVENLY FATHER SAYS, AND I AGREE...” I am a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a person for God’s own possession, that I may proclaim the excellencies of Him who has called me out of darkness into His marvelous light. 1 PETER 2:9 I am part of the family of God, and I have received mercy. 1 PETER 2:10 By His wounds I am healed. 1 PETER 2:24 I have been made alive in the Spirit. 1 PETER 3:18 The Spirit of glory and of God rests upon me. 1 PETER 4:14
His divine power has granted to me everything pertaining to life and godliness, through the true knowledge of Him who calls us by His own glory and excellence. 2 PETER 1:3
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“MY HEAVENLY FATHER SAYS, AND I AGREE...” He has granted to me His precious and magnificent promises, in order that by them I might become a partaker of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world by lust. 2 PETER 1:4 I have been purified from my former sins. 2 PETER 1:9 If I confess my sins, He is faithful and just and will forgive me and purify me from all unrighteousness. 1 JOHN 1:9
My sins are forgiven me on account of His name. 1 JOHN 2:12
The anointing which I received from Him remains in me, and I have no need for anyone to teach me; but as His anointing teaches me about all things, and is true and not a lie, and just as it has taught me, I remain in Him. 1 JOHN 2:27
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“MY HEAVENLY FATHER SAYS, AND I AGREE...” I am now a child of God and what I will be has not yet been made known, but we know that when Christ appears, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is. 1 JOHN 3:2 Because I keep His commandments and do the things that are pleasing in His sight, whatever I ask I receive from Him. 1 JOHN 3:22
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