1. 1. WE LIVE IN A WORLD Where People Are
2. 2. IDENTITY CRISIS WHO AM I?
3. 3. IDENTITY ...a subjective sense as well as an observable quality of personal sameness and continuity, paired with some belief in the sameness and continuity of some shared world image. (Erikson, 1970.)
4. 4. Many Christians struggles in the way they perceived their selves.
5. 5. The I Statement I am unworthy I am afraid to share I dont know how to pray I dont feel praising I dont have a purpose in life I am not maturing
6. 6. The I Statement This negative words defines who you are because you are claiming it.
7. 7. God Created You For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mothers womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made - Psalms 139:13-14
8. 8. God Knows You Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations. - Jeremiah 1:5
9. 9. God Has a Plan for You all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be. - Psalms 139:16
10. 10. He Knows My Name
11. 11. FEAR is one of cause of IDENTITY CRISIS
12. 12. We have confused comfort with peace, belief with faith, safety with wisdom, wealth with blessing, and existence with life. - Erwin McManus, Wide Awake
13. 13. We have confused comfort with peace, belief with faith, safety with wisdom, wealth with blessing, and existence with life. - Erwin McManus, Wide Awake
14. 14. MATTHEW 5:9 Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God.
15. 15. MATTHEW 12:30 This is war, and there is no neutral ground. If youre not on my side, youre the enemy; if youre not helping, youre making things worse. (The Message)
16. 16. LOOSING BY DEFAULT Fearful and timid Christians prevent the world from receiving Gods blessings. Christians want to stay safe at the expense of the world. We loose the world by default.
17. 17. IDENTITY IN CHRIST EPHESHIANS 1:1-14 1Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, To the saints who are in Ephesus, and are faithful IN CHRIST JESUS: 2Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
18. 18. IDENTITY IN CHRIST 3Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us IN CHRIST with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, 4even as he chose us IN HIM before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him.
19. 19. IDENTITY IN CHRIST In love 5he predestined us for adoption as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will, 6to the praise of his glorious grace, with which he has blessed us IN THE BELOVED. 7IN HIM we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses,
20. 20. IDENTITY IN CHRIST according to the riches of his grace, 8which he lavished upon us, in all wisdom and insight 9making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his purpose, which he set forth IN CHRIST 10as a plan for the fullness of time, to unite all things IN HIM, things in heaven and things on earth.
21. 21. IDENTITY IN CHRIST 11IN HIM we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will, 12so that we who were the first to hope IN CHRIST might be to the praise of his glory.
22. 22. IDENTITY IN CHRIST 13IN HIM you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed IN HIM, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, 14who is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it, to the praise of his glory.
23. 23. More often than not we are looking at our abilities rather than of God. we are looking at our strength rather than thinking what a mighty God we serve. we are looking at our understanding rather than trusting God. we are looking at things we cannot do rather than what God can do through us