I have spent a large majority of my life in chains.
Bound by fear and doubt, concerns about how people saw me, plagued by the belief that I was never going to be good enough, that I would never measure up.
It is a miserable place to be and I know that God doesn’t want us to live this way. Recently I started the Fall Hello Mornings challenge. We are studying the book of Ephesians. This week we have been reading Ephesians 1: 1-14.
Specifically we are looking each day at what truths, promises and commands we find in these verses.
Verses 7-10 stood out for me and I wanted to share it here with you! (The Message translation)
7-10 “Because of the sacrifice of the Messiah, his blood poured out on the altar of the Cross, we’re a free people—free of penalties and punishments chalked up by all our misdeeds. And not just barely free, either. Abundantly free! He thought of everything, provided for everything we could possibly need, letting us in on the plans he took such delight in making. He set it all out before us in Christ, a long-range plan in which everything would be brought together and summed up in him, everything in deepest heaven, everything on planet earth.”
Did you see that?? God doesn’t want us to live barely free He wants us to live Abundantly free!
And to do so we have to start letting go of the lies and start claiming the promises!!
LIE: “I will never measure up…never be good enough”
TRUTH: “Long before he laid down earth’s foundations, he had us in mind, had settled on us as the focus of his love, to be made whole and holy by his love.”
LIE: “I don’t belong”
TRUTH: “Long, long ago he decided to adopt us into his family through Jesus Christ.”
LIE: “I don’t have a purpose, I am not valuable”
TRUTH: “It’s in Christ that we find out who we are and what we are living for. Long before we first heard of Christ and got our hopes up, he had his eye on us, had designs on us for glorious living, part of the overall purpose he is working out in everything and everyone.”
Friends when the lies come, and believe me they will because the enemy wants nothing more than to bury you with them….start claiming the promises instead. Say them out loud if you have to! Praise God for the truths He set for us in His Word and live free!
Abundantly free!
What lie have you been believing and what truth are you going to claim today instead??
Your post perfectly sums up this week’s study!
Sounds like an awesome study! The enemy is a master at deception, but I’m thankful for the truth in Scripture that we can throw in his face! Take THAT!
This and Jennifer Camp’s Loop post today have it me right where I’m at today. Some days are great and others are like a vast heavy blanket are just weighing me down. I know the whispers are lies, but they can be so loud. There’s nothing like the voice of truth reminding me whose I am’s …claiming truth today! Thank you for this truth-filled post, I needed it today.
Yes and amen. What a wonderful summary of true identity. Thanks for your encouraging ways.
I love how you stated the lies then stated the truths from God’s word. I wrote about how i’m growing in believing I am complete in Christ – that’s my big take away from the Glorious Grace study this week and I’m the second to link up after you this morning. Blessd by what you have shared.