Prayers for identity and self-worth
Remembering who God says I am
For when you can't see yourself the way God sees you.
Also for identity in christ · who am i · child of god · chosen · loved by god
A prayer
Original writing, not a quotation of Scripture.
Father, the world has plenty of names for me, and most of them are about what I produce or how I look. You call me your child. Chosen, forgiven, adopted, loved.
I forget that by lunchtime most days. Write it deeper in me, so that when someone praises me I don't need it too much, and when someone criticizes me it doesn't flatten me. Let me live today like someone who already belongs to you.
In Jesus' name, Amen.
Bible verses for identity and self-worth
But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God’s children, to those who believe in his name: who were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.
The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of God; and if children, then heirs: heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified with him.
Put on therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance; bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, if any man has a complaint against any; even as Christ forgave you, so you also do.
Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.