Freedom In Christ - I ams
The I Ams

Who AM I?

The following list from 'Victory over the Darkness', itemises in first-person language who you really are and what you enjoy in Christ. One of the best ways to grow and mature as a believer is to continually remind yourself who you are and what you possess as a child of God. These qualities cannot be earned any more than the rights and freedoms you enjoy as a citizen of the nation where you live can be earned or bought. These traits are guaranteed to you by the Word of God simply because you were born into God's family by faith in Christ. The more you affirm who you are in Christ, the more your behaviour will reflect your true identity.

I am the salt of the earth (Matthew 5:13)

I am the light of the world (Matthew 5:14)

I am a child of God (John 1:12)

I am part of the true vine, a channel of Christ's life (John 15:1,5)

I am Christ's friend (John 15:15)

I am chosen and appointed by Christ to bear His fruit (John 15:16)

I am a slave of righteousness (Romans 6:18)

I am enslaved to God (Romans 6:22)

I am a son of God; God is spiritually my Father (Romans 8:14,15; Galatians 3:26; 4:6)

I am a joint heir with Christ, sharing His inheritance with Him (Romans 8:17)

I am a temple-a dwelling place-of God. His Spirit and His life dwell in me (1 Corinthians 3:16; 6:19)

I am united to the Lord and am one spirit with Him (1 Corinthians 6:17)

I am a member of Christ's Body (1 Corinthians 12:27; Ephesians 5:30)

I am a new creation (2 Corinthians 5:17).

I am reconciled to God and am a minister of reconciliation (2 Corinthians 5:18,19)

I am a son of God and one in Christ (Galatians 3:26,28)

I am an heir of God since I am a son of God (Galatians 4:6,7)

I am a saint (1 Corinthians 1:2; Ephesians 1:1; Philippians 1:1; Colossians 1:2)

I am God's workmanship His handiwork-born anew in Christ to do His work (Ephesians 2:10)

I am a fellow citizen with the rest of God's family (Ephesians 2:19)

I am a prisoner of Christ (Ephesians 3:1; 4:1)

I am righteous and holy (Ephesians 4:24)

I am a citizen of heaven, seated in heaven right now (Ephesians 2:6; Philippians 3:20)

I am hidden with Christ in God (Colossians 3:3)

I am an expression of the life of Christ because He is my life (Colossians 3:4)

I am chosen of God, holy and dearly loved (Colossians 3:12; 1 Thessalonians 1:4)

I am a son of light and not of darkness (1 Thessalonians 5:5)

I am a holy partaker of a heavenly calling (Hebrews 3:1)

I am a partaker of Christ; I share in His life (Hebrews 3:14)

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 (1 Peter 2:9,10)

I am an alien and stranger to this world in which I temporarily live (1 Peter 2:11)

I am an enemy of the devil (1 Peter 5:8)

I am a child of God and I will resemble Christ when He returns (1 John 3:1,2)

I am born of God, and the evil one - the devil - cannot touch me (1 John 5:18).

I am not the great "I am" (Exodus 3:14; John 8:24,28,58), but by the grace of God, I am what I am (1 Corinthians 15:10).

Since I AM in Christ, by the Grace of God . . .
(From the book "Victory over the Darkness")

I have been justified-completely forgiven and made righteous (Romans 5:1)

I died with Christ and died to the power of sin's rule over my life (Romans 6:1-6)

I am free forever from condemnation (Romans 8:1)

I have been placed into Christ by God's doing (1 Corinthians 1:30)

I have received the Spirit of God into my life that I might know the things freely given to me by God (1 Corinthians 2:12)

I have been given the mind of Christ (1 Corinthians 2:16)

I have been bought with a price; I am not my own; I belong to God (1 Corinthians 6:19,20)

I have been established, anointed and sealed by God in Christ, and I have been given the Holy Spirit as a pledge guaranteeing our inheritance to come (2 Corinthians 1:21; Ephesians 1:13,14)

Since I have died, I no longer live for myself, but for Christ (2 Corinthians 5:14,15)

I have been made righteous (2 Corinthians 5:21)

I have been crucified with Christ and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. The life I am now living is Christ's life (Galatians 2:20)

I have been blessed with every spiritual blessing (Ephesians 1:3)

I was chosen in Christ before the foundation of the world to be holy and am without blame before Him (Ephesians 1:4)

I was predestined-determined by God-to be adopted as God's son (Ephesians 1:5)

I have been redeemed and forgiven, and I am a recipient of His lavish grace Ephesians 1:7)

I have been made alive together with Christ (Ephesians 2:5)

I have been raised up and seated with Christ in heaven (Ephesians 2:6)

I have direct access to God through the Spirit (Ephesians 2:18)

I may approach God with boldness, freedom and confidence (Ephesians 3:12)

I have been rescued from the domain of Satan's rule and transferred to the kingdom of Christ (Colossians 1:13)

I have been redeemed and forgiven of all my sins. The debt against me has been cancelled (Colossians 1:14; 2:14)

Christ Himself is in me (Colossians 1:27)

I am firmly rooted in Christ and am now being built up in Him (Colossians 2:7)

I have been made complete in Christ (Colossians 2:10)

I have been spiritually circumcised (Colossians 2:11)

I have been buried, raised and made alive with Christ (Colossians 2:12,13)

I died with Christ and I have been raised up with Christ. My life is now hidden with Christ in God. Christ is now my life (Colossians 3:1-4)

I have been given a spirit of power, love and self-discipline (2 Timothy 1:7)

I have been saved and set apart according to God's doing (2 Timothy 1:9; Titus 3:5)

Because I am sanctified and am one with the Sanctifier, He is not ashamed to call me brother (Hebrews 2:11)

I have the right to come boldly before the throne of God to find mercy and grace in time of need (Hebrews 4:16)

I have been given exceedingly great and precious promises by God by which I am a partaker of God's divine nature (2 Peter 1:4)