In Christ, I Am Accepted
List by Pastor Ken
It is the greatest joy to know that Jesus accepts me as His friend and as God’s child (John 1:12). My relationship with Christ is all that matters in my life. He loves me. He paid for my sin on the cross and gave me forgiveness and eternal life.
I cannot be snatched out of God’s hand
John 10:29
My Father who has given them to me is greater than all. No one is able to snatch them out of my Father’s hand.
I am God’s child
John 1:12
But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God’s children, to those who believe in his name.
I am Christ’s friend
John 15:15
No longer do I call you servants, for the servant doesn’t know what his lord does. But I have called you friends, for everything that I heard from my Father, I have made known to you.
I have been justified by faith and have peace with God
Romans 5:1
Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.
I am joined to the Lord, and I am one spirit with Him
1 Corinthians 6:17
But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit.
I belong to God
1 Corinthians 6:19-20
Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.
I am a member of Christ’s body
1 Corinthians 12:27
Now you are the body of Christ, and members individually.
I have been adopted as God’s child through Christ
Ephesians 1:5
Having predestined us for adoption as children through Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his desire.
I have direct access to God through the Holy Spirit
Ephesians 2:18
For through him we both have our access in one Spirit to the Father.
I am redeemed and forgiven of all my sins
Colossians 1:14
In whom we have our redemption, the forgiveness of our sins.
I am made whole in Christ
Colossians 2:10
And in him you are made full, who is the head of all principality and power.
I am assured eternal life
John 5:24
Most certainly I tell you, he who hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life, and doesn’t come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.
