Sadly, most believers do not understand who they really are, who God made them to be, the authority He intended them to possess, or how Christ can meet their innermost desires for acceptance, security, and significance.
~ Shannon Ethridge

The last couple of days we have been studying up on how we are accepted in Christ and how we are secure in Christ and today we will be looking at how we are significant in Christ.

First of all…what is significance?

The word significant means to have meaning, to be important, to have influence or effect. There is a song that I absolutely love and one of the lyrics is “When I don’t measure up to much in this life, I’m a treasure in the eyes of Christ…”  

Day Twelve

Today I want you to take this list and print is off and keep it with you so that you might be reminded that you are important, your life has meaning, you can be used by God to have an influence and an effect on those who God allows to cross your path…

Don’t spend another day, another moment, listening to the lies like,

“Well what does it matter anyway?”

“No one would miss me anyway?”

“My life is useless”

“I don’t matter to anyone”

“I am not making a difference to anyone”

“What’s the point, it’s not like anyone will notice?”

“Nobody care’s anyway?”

These are lies! 
Big fat lies.
Whispered to you by the father of lies.

 He was a murderer from the beginning,

and does not stand in the truth because there is no truth in him.

Whenever he speaks a lie,

he speaks from his own nature,

for he is a liar and the father of lies.

John 8:44

Now the verse following this verse is very powerful. Jesus is speaking to the “church folk” when He shares this verse. He’s speaking to the one’s that have not only been reading His Word, the Scriptures, but also teaching them, and holding others to them… yet He lets them know here… that they do not believe what they teach or what they read and study. They do not believe Him.

But because I speak the truth,

you do not believe Me.

John 8:45

Below is a list of truth from the lips of Christ, the Word of God made flesh, the Scriptures.

Here it is in black and white, recorded in writing, and passed on for thousands of years, the question precious one, is who are you going to believe?

The father of lies or the Lover of your soul?

Watch yourself, because your life is going to reflect who you believe.

I AM SIGNIFICANT IN CHRIST

I am the salt and light of the earth
You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt has become tasteless, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled under foot by men.You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden
Matthew 5:13-14

I am a branch of the true vine, a channel of his life
I am the vine, you are the branches; he who abides in Me and I in him, he bears much fruit, for apart from Me you can do nothing.
John 15:5

I have been chosen and appointed to bear fruit
You did not choose Me but I chose you, and appointed you that you would go and bear fruit, and that your fruit would remain, so that whatever you ask of the Father in My name He may give to you
John 15:16

I am a personal witness of Christ
but you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be My witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and even to the remotest part of the earth
Acts 1:8

I am God’s temple
Do you not know that you are a temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?
1 Corinthians 3:16

I am a minister of reconciliation
Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were making an appeal through us; we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.
2 Corinthians 5:20

I am God’s coworker
And working together with Him, we also urge you not to receive the grace of God in vain—
2 Corinthians 6:1

I am seated with Christ in the heavenly realms
and raised us up with Him, and seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,
Ephesians 2:6

I am God’s workmanship
For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them.
Ephesians 2:10

I may approach God with freedom and confidence
in whom we have boldness and confident access through faith in Him
Ephesians 3:12

I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength
I can do all things through Him who strengthens me.
Philippians 4:13

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If you are a new creation in Christ… then you are accepted, you are secure, and you are significant. You are forgiven. You are not defined by your past, you are not trapped by your present, and you need have no reason to have fear concerning your future… You are safe in His very capable hands. Just trust His truth. Just believe Him. You are His treasure.

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