Elf

Your identity is not your status, your shame, or your performance.

Your identity is who your heavenly Father says you are.

Until you understand how your heavenly Father sees you, you can never fully be free to be who you are designed to be.

Ecclesiastes 3:11 NIV

11 He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end.

When we don't understand that our heavenly Father is not like our earthly father, we develop a warped view of God.

1 John 4:8 NIV

8 Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.

John 3:16 NIV

16 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

God loves you as you are now – not some future version of you.

Your identity rests in your relationship to your heavenly Father and His purpose for your life.

Mark 8:36 JCT

36 What does it profit a man to make a million dollars but lose his own kid?

When you've been born into the family of God, you can't be unborn.

Hebrews 11:1 NIV

1 Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.

1 Peter 3:15 NIV

15 But in your hearts revere Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect,