Day 2: Secure In Your Identity

Welcome back to our FREE article series, 21 Days to Strengthen Your Faith! Today is Day 2 of our journey, and we’re talking today about how you are secure in your identity as a beloved child of God in Christ Jesus.

In this series, we will examine one short Scripture passage each day.

Then, we will pray through it with a brief series of bullet-point prayers. Each day, our goal is to strengthen our faith by gaining greater revelation about the importance of faith in our lives, and how faith WORKS.

As you strengthen your faith each day, your confidence in God will grow–and you will also begin feeling more brave and willing to go on the great adventures God has for you!

We have also recorded a short video devotional to go with each day’s Scripture verse. Please be sure to watch these videos for extra encouragement and inspiration in your faith journey!

Click here for the series table of contents, in which you can find all the articles in 21 Days to Strengthen Your Faith.

First, watch this word of encouragement for Day 2:

Next, let’s look at today’s key Scripture passage about faith.

For Day 2, our Scripture passage is Galatians 3:6, which says:

“… just as Abraham “believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness” (Galatians 3:6 NKJV).

Why is this Scripture so important when we’re talking about strengthening your faith? Because your very identity comes from FAITH.

Here’s what I mean:

When you placed your faith in Christ, you became righteous–just like Abraham did. As it says in Romans:

“For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him” (2 Corinthians 5:21 NKJV).

In the moment in which you gave your life to Jesus, your identity changed.

You became righteous. Righteousness became who you are.

Additionally, you became a child of God:

“Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! Therefore the world does not know us, because it did not know Him” (1 John 3:1 NKJV).

God LOVED you even before you gave your life to Jesus, as it says in John 3:16:

“For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life” (John 3:16 NKJV).

… But you were not His CHILD before you gave your life to Jesus. However, in the moment you DID give your life to Jesus, your identity changed:

• You became righteous in His sight; and
• You became His beloved CHILD.

In that moment, God placed you into right standing with Himself through your faith in Christ.

He washed you clean with the blood of His only begotten Son, Jesus, and you became a new creation. As we read in Galatians 2:20:

“I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me” (Galatians 2:20 NKJV).

So friend, notice this: Your identity comes through faith.

You and I are made right with God through our faith in Jesus Christ. We are NOT able to enter into any kind of right standing with God through works; in other words, through trying to do enough good things. And that means also that we become His children of LOVE through faith.

Let me add here: If you haven’t given your life to Jesus yet, God does love you anyway, whether you love Him yet or not.

John 3:16, quoted above, says this. God sent His Son Jesus to die for us because He LOVED us. He loved us before He ever sent Jesus to die, and that is why He sent Jesus to die. He loved us even before we ever loved Him. While we were still sinning–or if you haven’t given your life to Jesus yet, which means you’re still sinning currently–God LOVES you with everything in Him.

Romans 5:8 tells us this:

“But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us” (Romans 5:8 NKJV).

But you also need to understand that God’s love continues toward you now, even after you give your heart to Jesus …

… And it’s by FAITH that you are His child of love.

That means you are secure in your identity, BY FAITH:

• You can’t earn His love. His love is a gift.
• You can’t earn a right relationship with Him. That right relationship with Him comes as a gift, when you BELIEVE in Jesus.
• You can’t earn your identity as beloved child of God. You can only believe Him, and RECEIVE.

Abraham believed God. And his belief in God saved him; his faith in God is what saved him. And in that moment he was saved through his faith, he became the beloved child of God.

The same goes for you:

In the moment you gave your life to Jesus by faith, you became a beloved child of God.

By faith.

Not by works.

Friend, you are secure in your identity in Jesus BY FAITH. And you are secure in being a BELOVED child of God, also because of your faith.

This means, if you have given your life to Jesus, you are loved–and nothing can ever change that. You are righteous in Him, and nothing can ever change that.

You don’t have to work for love, and you don’t have to perform like a marionette on a string to GET love.

You never worked hard enough to become loved in the first place, and you can’t work hard enough to be loved now or in the future. God simply loves you, and you dwell with Him in love by faith. Yes; right now, God loves you 100%.

Friend, aren’t you glad you don’t have to work for love?

You are secure in your identity as a beloved child of God by FAITH. And that is good news today!

Related: Pray This If You’re Working for Love

So let’s pray today and ask the Lord to increase our awareness of the importance of faith.

Ask the Lord to help you strengthen your faith as you pray through the following bullet points. Be sure to add your own words, so that each prayer comes from the depths of your own heart.

Pray through the following brief bullet points to strengthen your faith today:

• Tell the Father that you are coming to Him in Jesus’ name.
• Thank the Lord for saving you by faith.
• Thank Him for loving you, even before He saved you.
• Thank Him for choosing you to be His beloved child.
• Thank Him for attributing righteousness to you through your faith in Jesus.
• Ask Him to help you study and meditate on His love, internalizing it at a gut level.
• Ask Him to give you a greater revelation of His love, so that His love occupies your heart and thoughts at all times.
• Ask Him to help you RECEIVE His own love; to love yourself with His love, the way He wants you to; to love Him back with His own love; and then to overflow with love toward all the people around you.
• Ask Him to help you rest in His love, knowing that you don’t ever have to work for love or perform in order to be loved.
• Ask Him to search your heart and life, and to remove everything that isn’t reflective of His love and His righteousness.
• Ask Him to make you more like Himself every day.

Friend, if you have given your life to Jesus, making Him your Lord and Savior, you are secure in your identity in Him.

In Jesus, you are RIGHTEOUS and you are BELOVED. You don’t have to work to become these things; all you have to do is believe in Jesus. That’s good news today, and I pray that this truth strengthens your faith in the One who knows you best and loves you most today!

Did you pray these prayers to strengthen your faith today? If so, leave a comment below!