Truth That Sets Us Free!
1. God desires that I live in His unconditional love and affection everyday!
- I was created to enjoy friendship with God.
- The cross (not my circumstances) proves how much God loves me.
- God loves me as I am, not as I should be. He is very fond of me!
- God desires an ongoing honest dialogue with me.
- The more I know that God loves me unconditionally the more I will trust Him.
- I struggle with sin when I live unaware of God’s love.
2. My biggest obstacle in experiencing God’s love is my flawed thinking.
- Much of what I think and believe is not true.
- Believing a lie leads to bondage; believing the truth sets me free.
- God’s Word is true; it heals and gives life to my soul.
- God transforms me by renewing my mind.
- Setting my thoughts on the Spirit produces life and peace.
3. Christ gave His life for me so He could give His life to me.
- The cross is God’s cure for sin and shame.
- Jesus died for me to restore my relationship with God
- All my sins (past, present and future) have been forgiven.
- Sin was defeated at the cross and it can never separate me from God again.
- Eternal Life is Jesus living in me now!
- Salvation is not about getting into heaven, but getting God into me.
4. I must know and believe who I am, in Christ, to change what I do.
- I am no longer a sinner who is merely saved by grace.
- God has made me a new person on the inside.
- I don’t have two natures. My old self died with Christ.
- I am now dead to sin and alive to God.
- God gave me a new heart and spirit and put His Spirit within me.
- Because I have a new nature, I have a new identity: God’s child.
5. Father God is much different and better than I could ever imagine!
- God the Father is just like Jesus; the kind of Papa I’ve always wanted.
- Father loves me the same as He loves His Son, Jesus.
- I can do nothing to cause Papa to love me more or less than He does.
- Only Father can meet all my needs and satisfy my heart.
- I can only trust God to the degree that I believe He loves me
- The more I know and relate to Father, the more I become like Him
6. Christ placed His Spirit in me so He could live through me.
- Living the Christian life is not just difficult; it is impossible.
- God did not design us to rely on our own human abilities.
- I was created to contain and live by the life of another.
- Through my spirit union with Christ, I am now complete and adequate.
- There is a battle between the flesh and my spirit. I am not the flesh.
- Dependence on Holy Spirit empowers me with supernatural life.
- Only as I abide in Christ, can His life and love flow from me to others.
7. I can overcome sin by understanding the battle within.
- Satan counterfeits the Holy Spirit with an entity called sin.
- Sin still lives in my body but it is not me.
- Sin seeks to deceive and control me through my thoughts.
- It impersonates my old self using 1st person singular pronouns (I, me).
- Setting my thoughts on the truth leads to life and peace.
- Temptations are opportunities to exercise faith in Christ (as life).
8. I can’t believe everything I feel. I was designed to live by faith.
- My emotions are blind (to spirit reality). I must not let them drive.
- My emotions reveal what is taking place in my soul.
- My beliefs produce perceptions and perceptions fuel my emotions.
- Holy Spirit wants to change how I think about God, not just how I feel.
- I need to acknowledge my feelings and express them to God.
- Joy and peace result from relating to God and trusting what He says.
9. Living by rules and “shoulds” is the surest way to live defeated.
- Knowledge of right and wrong does not empower me to do right.
- Legalism is trying to make spiritual progress based on what I do.
- Trusting, not trying, leads to abundant life.
- God’s commands are His invitation to depend on Christ.
- Living in God’s love, not fear and guilt, transforms me to be obey God.
- My weaknesses and failures remind me to rely on Christ’s life within.
- The more I believe and trust God’s love for me, the less I sin.
10. Jesus empowers me to respond to wrongs done with love and forgiveness.
- Jesus desires to displace the sin of unforgiveness and bitterness in my life.
- Unforgiveness is like “bad cholesterol”; blocking the flow of His Spirit.
- Bitterness is like drinking rat poison and waiting for the rat to die.
- Holding on to anger and bitterness hurts me more than others.
- Living in the awareness of God’s forgiveness frees me to forgive others.
- Forgiveness is letting go of my right to judge and punish.
- Offenses are my opportunity to experience Christ living through me.
11. God uses my problems, failures and trials to set me free!
- Problems are part of what brings me to the end of my self-sufficiency.
- God uses adversity to free me from dependence on external things.
- God doesn’t cause suffering, He redeems it!
- God brings incredible good out of unspeakable tragedies.
- Rejoicing in my trials reveals my trust in God’s love and goodness.
12. Life is a journey of learning to live in God’s love and love others!
- Father desires the free affection of sons and daughters living in the celebration of His love and life.
- Community is sharing honestly with fellow travelers, our journey with God as we encourage one another to live in His love and affection.
- God’s purpose is that I love those whom He places in my path.
- Christ is setting me free to live graciously and generously in this world.
- Living in Father’s love and affection is the most exciting and satisfying way to live!
The Process of Transformation
Jesus Christ is the truth about God. He is the way to have a relationship with God. He is the life of God, within us (John 14:6). To truly know God is our ultimate purpose (John 17:3). The more we perceive God as He truly is, the more we will be transformed into His image (2 Cor. 3:18). Sinful actions and attitudes are the result of not personally knowing and trusting the One who is perfect love. As you renew your mind with these foundational truths, you will begin to recognize and reject the lies you have believed about God, yourself and life. Scripture references that relate to each truth are listed below. Ask God to make each verse relevant and real to you. As you trust and rely on God’s Word, you will know the truth and it will set you free; free to be and live as God intended! (John 8:31-32)
- God desires that I live in His unconditional love and affection everyday!
Rom 5:8, 8:38-39; John 15:9, 17:23; Eph 1:3-5, 2:4-5; 1John 4:8-9, 16-19; Jer 31:3; Zeph 3:17
- My biggest obstacle to experiencing God’s love is my flawed thinking.
Pro 23:7; John 8:31-32; Rom 1: 28, 8:5-6, 12:1-2; Eph 4:22-24
- Christ gave His life for me so He could give His life to me.
Rom 5:8; Eph 2:4-5; John 15:9, 16:27, 17:24b; 1 John 4:8-10
- I must know and believe who I am, in Christ, to change what I do.
Rom 6:6, 11, 15:7; 2 Cor 5:17, 21; Gal 4:6-7; Eph 4:24; 2 Peter 1:3-4
- Father God is much different and better than I could ever imagine!
John 1:14, 14:6-11, 17:3; 2 Cor 3:18, 6:18; Gal 4:6,1John 3:1-3, 4:18-19
- Christ placed His Spirit in me so He could live through me.
John 6:28-29, 63, 14:16-18, 26, 15:4-5; Col 2:6-7; Gal 5:16-18
- I can overcome sin by understanding the battle within.
John 8:31-32,10:10, 15: 5; Rom 6:11, 7:11, 20-21, 8:102, 9-11; 2 Cor 10:7; Eph 6:10-18; Gal 2:20, 5:16-18, 24, 6:14-15; Phil 3:3, 8-10; James 1:13-15
- I can’t believe everything I feel. I was designed to live by faith.
Ps 42:5-6, 94:17, 142; 2 Cor 5:7; Rom 15:13
- Living by rules and “shoulds” is the surest way to live defeated.
Rom 7; Gal 2:19-21, 3:21, 5:1,18; Phil 3:3-10; Col 2:8-17
- Jesus empowers me to respond to wrongs done with love and forgiveness.
Matt 18:21-35; John 15:12; Eph 4:26-27, 31-32; Col 3:12-14; 1 John 4:7-12
- God uses my problems, failures and trials to set me free!
John 16:33; Rom 8:35-39; 1Thess 5:18; James 1:2-5; 1 Pet 1:6-9, 4:1-2, 12-13; 2 Cor 1:8-10; 12:7-10
- Life is a journey of learning to trust God’s love and live by His life!
Isa 43:7; John 4:23-24; 1 Cor 10:31; 2 Cor 3:18; Col 1:26-27; Psalm 37:4; Prov 3:5-6; 1 John 4:11-13; Prov 16:9, 19:21
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