Before fear tells you who you are, God already has. What follows is both halves of that — the truth He speaks over you, and the answer to what fear says instead. Speak them until they arrive first.
Part One
Who God says I am
I am a child of God.
Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God.
John 1:12 · NIV
For those who are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God. The Spirit you received does not make you slaves, so that you live in fear again; rather, the Spirit you received brought about your adoption to sonship. And by him we cry, “Abba, Father.” The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God’s children.
Romans 8:14–16 · NIV
So in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith.
Galatians 3:26 · NIV
I am chosen by God.
For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight.
Ephesians 1:4 · NIV
Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience.
Colossians 3:12 · NIV
I am loved by God.
No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 8:37–39 · NIV
But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions — it is by grace you have been saved.
Ephesians 2:4–5 · NIV
See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him.
1 John 3:1 · NIV
I am accepted in Christ.
Accept one another, then, just as Christ accepted you, in order to bring praise to God.
Romans 15:7 · NIV
He predestined us for adoption to sonship through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will — to the praise of his glorious grace, which he has freely given us in the One he loves.
Ephesians 1:5–6 · NIV
I am forgiven.
In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God’s grace.
Ephesians 1:7 · NIV
For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.
Colossians 1:13–14 · NIV
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.
1 John 1:9 · NIV
Part Two
And what I am not
I am not condemned.
Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
Romans 8:1 · NIV
I am not abandoned.
Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, because God has said, “Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you.”
Hebrews 13:5 · NIV
I am not a slave to fear.
The Spirit you received does not make you slaves, so that you live in fear again; rather, the Spirit you received brought about your adoption to sonship. And by him we cry, “Abba, Father.”
Romans 8:15 · NIV
I am not controlled by sin.
For sin shall no longer be your master, because you are not under the law, but under grace.
Romans 6:14 · NIV
I am not powerless.
But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.
Acts 1:8 · NIV
For the Spirit God gave us does not make us timid, but gives us power, love and self-discipline.
2 Timothy 1:7 · NIV
I am not defined by my past.
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!
2 Corinthians 5:17 · NIV
I am not separated from God’s love.
For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 8:38–39 · NIV
I do not belong to darkness.
You are all children of the light and children of the day. We do not belong to the night or to the darkness.
1 Thessalonians 5:5 · NIV
For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves.
Colossians 1:13 · NIV
