Who I Am

He found him in a desert land, And in the howling wasteland of a wilderness; He encircled him, He cared for him, He guarded him as the apple of His eye.

For I know the plans that I have for you,’ declares the LORD, ‘plans for prosperity and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope.

But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name,

No longer do I call you slaves, for the slave does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, because all things that I have heard from My Father I have made known to you.

and if children, heirs also, heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him so that we may also be glorified with Him.

But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us.

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, this person is a new creation; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come.

For you are all sons and daughters of God through faith in Christ Jesus.

Therefore you are no longer a slave, but a son; and if a son, then an heir through God.

For our citizenship is in heaven, from which we also eagerly wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ;

But you are A CHOSEN PEOPLE, A royal PRIESTHOOD, A HOLY NATION, A PEOPLE FOR GOD’S own possession, so that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;

and He Himself brought our sins in His body up on the cross, so that we might die to sin and live for righteousness; by His wounds you were healed.

Through these He has granted to us His precious and magnificent promises, so that by them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world on account of lust.