When you are not experiencing success, you might be tempted to think you are not good enough. During those times it is important to remember that God says you are:
1. His workmanship.
For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. Ephesians 2:10 (NIV)
2. Fearfully and wonderfully made.
For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. Psalm 139:13-14 (NIV)
3. The apple of His eye.
Keep me as the apple of your eye; hide me in the shadow of your wings. Psalm 17:8 (NIV)
4. Great.
You make your saving help my shield, and your right hand sustains me; your help has made me great. Psalm 18:35 (NIV)
5. More than a conqueror.
No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. Romans 8:37 (NIV)
6. The head and not the tail.
The Lord will make you the head, not the tail. If you pay attention to the commands of the Lord your God that I give you this day and carefully follow them, you will always be at the top, never at the bottom. Deuteronomy 28:13 (NIV)
7. The top and not the bottom.
The Lord will make you the head, not the tail. If you pay attention to the commands of the Lord your God that I give you this day and carefully follow them, you will always be at the top, never at the bottom. Deuteronomy 28:13 (NIV)
8. Strengthened with all power.
Being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might so that you may have great endurance and patience. Colossians 1:11 (NIV)
9. and 10. Holy and blameless.
For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love. Ephesians 1:4 (NIV)
11. Set apart.
Know that the Lord has set apart his faithful servant for himself; the Lord hears when I call to him. Psalm 4:3 (NIV)
12. Valuable.
Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? Yet not one of them is forgotten by God. Indeed, the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Don’t be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows. Luke 12:6-7 (NIV)
13. A friend of Jesus.
I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you. John 15:15 (NIV)
14. Adopted into God’s family.
He predestined us for adoption to sonship through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will. Ephesians 1:5 (NIV)
15. His heir and co-heir with Jesus.
Now if we are children, then we are heirs—heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory. Romans 8:17 (NIV)
16. A citizen of heaven.
But our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ. Philippians 3:20 (NIV)
17. A child of light and not 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)
18. The salt of the earth.
You are the salt of the earth. Matthew 5:13 (NIV)
19. The light of the world.
You are the light of the world. Matthew 5:14 (NIV)
20. A victor, not a victim.
But thanks be to God! He gives us victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. 1 Corinthians 15:57 (NIV)
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