{"id":1125,"date":"2025-06-15T04:47:53","date_gmt":"2025-06-15T04:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rhondarose.com\/?p=1125"},"modified":"2025-09-27T01:14:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T01:14:09","slug":"identity-in-christ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rhondarose.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/15\/identity-in-christ\/","title":{"rendered":"Identity in Christ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a believer, you have been reconciled to God and have received a new identity in Christ. There are many important reminders of this found in Scripture.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"bordered-image alignleft wp-image-7740\" src=\"https:\/\/rhondarose.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/2025-book-2073023-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"268\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rhondarose.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/2025-book-2073023-960x515.jpg 960w, https:\/\/rhondarose.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/2025-book-2073023-1200x644.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/rhondarose.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/2025-book-2073023-768x412.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rhondarose.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/2025-book-2073023-1536x824.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/rhondarose.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/2025-book-2073023-2048x1099.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/>I have been adopted as a child of God, according to the purpose of His will and the riches of His grace.\u00a0<\/strong> (Eph 1:3-9, John 1:12-13, Gal 3:26-29)<br \/>\n<strong>I have been made an heir to the promises of God. <\/strong>(Gal 3:29, 2 Cor 1:20)<br \/>\n<strong>I have been made righteous and holy before God through my faith in Christ Jesus.<br \/>\n<\/strong>(Rom 3:22, John 5:1, Phil 3:9)<br \/>\n<strong>I have intimacy and friendship with God. <\/strong>(John 15:15-16, 1 Tim 2:5)<br \/>\n<strong>I have peace with God and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.<\/strong> (Rom 5:1)<br \/>\n<strong>I have been bought with a price and my body is a temple of the Holy Spirit.<\/strong> (1 Cor 6:19-20)<br \/>\n<strong>I have been rescued from darkness and transferred to the Kingdom of God. <\/strong>(Col 1:13-14)<br \/>\n<strong>I have been called out of darkness into His marvelous light.<\/strong> (1 Peter 2:9)<br \/>\n<strong>I have been chosen by God before the foundation of the world, beloved and holy.<\/strong> (Col 3:12, Eph 1:4)<br \/>\n<strong>I belong to Christ and I have been made a creation. <\/strong>(2 Cor 5:17-21)<br \/>\n<strong>I put on my new self and wear kindness, humility, meekness, compassion, love, forgiveness and\u00a0patience. <\/strong>(Col 3:10-12)<br \/>\n<strong>I look to things above and not on things of the earth. <\/strong>(Col 3:2)<br \/>\n<strong>I belong to Christ and my life is now hidden with Christ in God. (<\/strong><strong>Col 3:3)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>With prayer and thanksgiving, I can do all things through Christ Who strengthens me.<br \/>\n<\/strong>(Phil 4:13, Col 4:2<strong>)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>I am made complete and whole through union with Christ.<\/strong> (Col 2:9-10)<br \/>\n<strong>I am able to boldly approach the throne of the Lord where I receive mercy and find grace. <\/strong>(Heb 4:14-16, Eph 3:2)<br \/>\n<strong>I am now a member of a royal priesthood. <\/strong>(1 Peter 2:9)<br \/>\n<strong>I have been saved by grace through faith and I am seated with Christ in the heavenly places. <\/strong>(Eph 2:5-6)<br \/>\n<b>I have redemption and forgiveness which He has lavished upon on me according to the counsel of his will and for the praise of His glory<\/b>. (Eph 1:3-12)<br \/>\n<strong>I can trust all things to work together for good according to His purpose for me.\u00a0<\/strong>(Romans 8:26, Phil 1:6)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rhondarose.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Identity-in-Christ.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><br \/>\nPDF Download of <strong>Identity in Christ<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Questions for Reflection<\/strong><br \/>\nHow does this new identity encourage you?<br \/>\nWhat promise means the most to you at your current stage in life?<br \/>\nWhat promise calls you to greater prayer and reflection?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a believer, you have been reconciled to God and have received a new identity in Christ. There are many important reminders of this found in Scripture. I have been adopted as a child of God, according to the purpose of His will and the riches of His grace.\u00a0 (Eph 1:3-9, John 1:12-13, Gal 3:26-29) &#8230; <a title=\"Identity in Christ\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/rhondarose.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/15\/identity-in-christ\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Identity in Christ\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7740,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cultivate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhondarose.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhondarose.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhondarose.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhondarose.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhondarose.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1125"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/rhondarose.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8171,"href":"https:\/\/rhondarose.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125\/revisions\/8171"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhondarose.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhondarose.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhondarose.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhondarose.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}