August 5-6, 2006, Eph. 3:13-21

Identity Theft
Powerful!

Identity Truths:
Week 1: I am CHOSEN.
Week 2: I am ALIVE.
Week 3: I am GOD'S VESSEL.
Today: I am POWERFUL.

Ephesians 3:13-19 (NIV)
I ask you, therefore, not to be discouraged because of my sufferings for you, which are your glory. For this reason I kneel before the Father, from whom his whole family in heaven and on earth derives its name. I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge - that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.

BIG IDEA: A change in heart is more powerful than a change in circumstance.

- God's greatest power can be seen in the miracle of PERSEVERANCE.

Romans 5:3-5 (NIV)
Not only so, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope. And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out his love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom he has given us.

Ephesians 3:20-21 (NIV)
Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.

MY IDENTITY IN CHRIST PRAYERS:
I praise you LORD for choosing me, for adopting me
into Christ's family. Thank you that in Christ, I am
deeply loved, totally forgiven and complete. Thank
you Lord for saving me and making me alive in you.

Help me to live out the truth that I am able to become
like you, because you live in me. All glory belongs to
you, not me, because you are able to do immeasurably
more than I could ever ask or imagine, according
to your power that is at work within me.