Seven readings, rooted in identity given by God.
Today I am putting off the old pattern and putting on this mind — not because the old groove is gone, but because this is how it gets replaced (Ephesians 4:22-24). Repetition built the old attitude. Repetition, given to God, will build the new one.
Reading #1 — I Am His
I am beloved. God set his love on me before I did anything to earn it.
I am fearfully and wonderfully made. My body and my life are being shaped by His hand.
I am accepted in the Beloved. Grace has made me acceptable.
I am being renewed day by day, transformed from the inside out.
I am a receiver of grace. What I have is gift.
I am forgiven, fully and at cost. I forgive others because I was forgiven first.
I am fully known and fully loved. Nothing in me disqualifies me from that love.
I am adopted as His child, not a servant working for approval (Galatians 4:7).
I am secure. My identity does not rise and fall with my performance today.
I am a gift, and I am worthy of love, because God said so.
Reading #2 — What I Believe
I believe my thoughts matter, and I offer them to God to renew.
I believe divine love shines from within me because His Spirit dwells there.
I believe my worth is fixed and already given.
I believe I am strengthened by Him for what I face today.
I believe in prayer, as relationship with One who hears me, and I believe prayer changes things — my heart first, and sometimes circumstances too.
I believe when I ask, seek, and knock, I am heard (Matthew 7:7).
I believe every good gift comes from the Father of lights.
I believe faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen (Hebrews 11:1).
I believe I walk by faith, not by sight (2 Corinthians 5:7), even when I can’t yet see how things resolve.
I believe hope does not put me to shame, because His love has already been poured into my heart (Romans 5:5).
I believe I am being made into something beautiful.
I believe in compassion, and I extend it because it was extended to me.
I believe my life bears witness to grace.
I believe others’ welfare matters as much as my own.
I believe I am meant to help those who need me, out of what I’ve received.
I believe I participate in what God is doing in the world.
I believe there is one source, and I listen to him.
I believe in what He has done — always.
Reading #3 — My True Purpose
I follow the calling I’ve been given, and I act on it.
I am true to myself and to others.
I seek good outcomes for everyone in my relationships and my work.
My worth is settled, and my purpose flows from that settledness.
I let others help me. I was never meant to be self-sufficient.
I love people of every shape, size, color, and creed.
I am one with others in Christ.
I make decisions carefully, and I trust that even my mistakes are held by grace.
I am being sanctified, a slow work, and that is enough for today.
I am forgiven, and I am being made whole.
My future is held by grace.
I love my life and the people in it, imperfections included.
I am on the road home.
Reading #4 — Provision
I receive what God provides — financial, relational, physical, spiritual.
I trust the wisdom of God, Who orders all things for my good.
I hold money and provision loosely, as stewardship.
It is done. Christ has already accomplished what matters most.
Reading #5 — Decisions and Surrender
I bring my decisions to God rather than trusting my own record alone.
My decision-making is sound when it’s surrendered.
When I get it wrong, God meets me there and redirects me.
I hold my choices with humility.
I trust Him with what I cannot yet see the outcome of. That is what faith is for.
Reading #6 — I Love Our Clients
I love our clients. Loving well is the work.
They help us grow. I receive their praise with gratitude and their correction as a gift.
They want to do business with us, and I want to be trustworthy of that.
Today I will do my best to serve them well.
I am grateful when the work is enjoyable, and faithful to it when it isn’t.
I receive their feedback, even the hard kind.
We charge a fair price, and I trust that fairness sustains the business.
I love our clients as people.
Reading #7 — Grateful
I am grateful. Every good gift comes from the Father of lights.
God is good, and I trust His goodness even in what I don’t understand.
I try to see the good in people.
Provision comes to me as gift.
I receive grace, undeserved, and that is better than being owed.
I hold what’s given to me open-handed.
I am grateful — deeply loved — and I receive that, today, again.
“You are built for love from the inside out. You are built for love from the outside in. You exist in a universe that is love. You exist in a world that is aligned to love. We have bought the lie that it is hostile and oppositional to us. We need to remember what is deeply, most profoundly true about us and about everybody else on the planet. We are deeply, truly, passionately loved by the King and Creator of the universe and that is why we exist. It is spoken by love, it is formed by love, it is inbreathed by love. And only love can see the soul as it truly is. This is why it is so important that as part of the stewardship of your soul, you love the you that God loves. Because if you and God disagree, you’re wrong.” — Bill Dogterom [on Genesis 2]
THE BATTLE WITH EGO
Seeing is never believing: we interpret what we see in the light of what we believe. Faith is confidence in God before you see God emerging; therefore the nature of faith is that it must be tried. He Shall Glorify Me, 494 R