TRUE LIES

• "It doesn't matter..."
• "I need to have it all together.. all the time."
• "If I don't think about it, the problem will go away."
• "I am not good enough for that. So & so would be better."

...These are truths that I had let myself believe for so long.  But who's truths are they? The problem with deception is that often, you don't know you are accepting it. An imposter of truth has taken form in your mind and you don't even realize it.

We always hear "Then, you will know the truth and the truth will set you free."  We hear it wrongly quoted in media and taken out of context in movies. Does the world even know that this verse is found in John 8:32 when Jesus is telling His disciples the key to freedom? The message paraphrase says that "if the Son sets you free, you are free through and through."

Are the truths that you are believing for your life keeping you in chains? If so, the truths you are accepting are imposters from the enemy.  Satan is the father of lies. His language is lies. The Bible (mssg version) also says "He was a killer from the very start. He couldn’t stand the truth because there wasn’t a shred of truth in him. When the Liar speaks, he makes it up out of his lying nature and fills the world with lies." He knows where to get you! Even if you are a child of the King, satan knows what lies to make you believe as truth.

So, who's voice are you listening to today? While satan is LIAR, God is TRUTH. Everything He says is true. It is time to study who God says you are by learning His Word. Whenever the enemy confronts you and aims to deceive you (which he will try to do over and over again)... remember who God says you are. Punch satan in the face with God's truths. The devil's truth will not free you. The world's truth will not free you. Your truth will not free you. Only God's truth will set you free.

WHO AM I (God's Truths for me):

• I am loved by God. John 15:9 As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love. 
• I am being changed into His image. II Corinthians 3:18 And we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his likeness with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.
• I am free from the slavery of sin.  Romans 6:6 For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin. 
• I am a new creation. II Corinthians 5:17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!
• I am chosen, holy, & blameless before God. Ephesians 1:4 For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. 
• I am the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. II Corinthians 5:21 God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
• I am an overcomer by the blood of the lamb & the word of my testimony. Revelation 12:11 They overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony; 
• I am the light of the world. Matthew 5:14 You are the light of the world. A city on a hill cannot be hidden. 
• I am an ambassador for Christ. II Corinthians 5:20 We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. 
• I am holy & beloved. Colossians 3:12 Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility,gentleness and patience. 
• I am God's daughter (or son).  John 1:12 Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God.
• I am God's Friend.  John 15:15 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. 
• I am redeemed & justified. Romans 3:24 ...and are justified freely by his grace through the redemptionthat came by Christ Jesus. 
• I am the apple of His eye. Psalm 17:8 Keep me as the apple of Your eye; Hide me under the shadow of Your wings, 
• I am healed by His stripes. 1 Peter 2:24 who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness—by whose stripes you were healed. 
• I am fearfully & wonderfully made. Psalm 139:14 I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; 
• I am complete in Christ. Colossians 2:10 and you have been given fullness in Christ, who is the head over every power and authority. 

Claim these promises as truth in your life and find so many more throughout the bible.

>> What are some of your favorite truths from God?

B&B (Beth Ann)