Appendix C

My Identity in Christ

The following list is from Neil T. Anderson, Victory Over the Darkness: Realize the Power of Your Identity in Christ (Minneapolis: Bethany House, 2013), 51–53.

• I am the salt of the earth (Matthew 5:13).
• I am the light of the world (Matthew 5:14).
• I am a child of God (John 1:12).
• I am part of the true vine, a channel of Christ’s life (John 15:1, 5).
• I am Christ’s friend (John 15:15).
• I am chosen and appointed by Christ to bear His fruit (John 15:16).
• I am a slave of righteousness (Romans 6:18).
• I am enslaved to God (Romans 6:22).
• I am a son of God; God is spiritually my Father (Romans 8:14-15; Galatians 3:26, 4:6).
• I am a joint heir with Christ, sharing His inheritance with Him (Romans 8:17).
• I am a temple—a dwelling place—of God. His Spirit and His life dwell in me (1 Corinthians 3:16, 6:19).
• I am united to the Lord and am one spirit with Him (1 Corinthians 6:17).
• I am a member of Christ’s body (1 Corinthians 12:27; Ephesians 5:30).
• I am a new creation (2 Corinthians 5:17).
• I am reconciled to God and am a minister of reconciliation (2 Corinthians 5:18-19).
• I am a son of God and one in Christ (Galatians 3:26, 28).
• I am an heir of God since I am a son of God (Galatians 4:6-7).
• I am a saint (1 Corinthians 1:2; Ephesians 1:1; Philippians 1:1; Colossians 1:2).
• I am God’s workmanship—His handiwork—born anew in Christ to do His work (Ephesians 2:10).
• I am a fellow citizen with the rest of God’s family (Ephesians 2:19).
• I am a prisoner of Christ (Ephesians 3:1, 4:1).
• I am righteous and holy (Ephesians 4:24).
• I am a citizen of heaven, seated in heaven right now (Ephesians 2:6; Philippians 3:20).
• I am hidden with Christ in God (Colossians 3:3).
• I am an expression of the life of Christ because He is my life (Colossians 3:4).
• I am chosen of God, holy and dearly loved (Colossians 3:12; 1 Thessalonians 1:4).
• I am a son of light and not of darkness (1 Thessalonians 5:5).
• I am a holy partaker of a heavenly calling (Hebrews 3:1).
• I am a partaker of Christ; I share in His life (Hebrews 3:14).
• I am one of God’s living stones, being built up in Christ as a spiritual house (1 Peter 2:5).
• I am a member of a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession (1 Peter 2:9-10).
• I am an alien and stranger to this world in which I temporarily live (1 Peter 2:11).
• I am an enemy of the devil (1 Peter 5:8).
• I am a child of God and I will resemble Christ when He returns (1 John 3:1-2).
• I am born of God, and the evil one—the devil—cannot touch me (1 John 5:18).
• I am not the great “I am” (Exodus 3:14; John 8:24, 28, 58), but by the grace of God, I am what I am (1 Corinthians 15:10).