8 Affirmations To Write on Your Heart

My word for this year is identity. I, for one, have been guilty of placing my identity in people, places, things, and titles, but all of those are fleeting. So I’ve committed this season to rediscovering who I am in Christ. I want to see me, like really see me, the way God does.

And what better place to figure out who you are then from the creator himself?

Here are 8 things God calls you whether you believe it or not:

1. Loved

This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. 1 John 4:9-10

2. Chosen

For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love he predestined us for adoption to sonship through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will. Ephesians 1:4-5

3. Created to do good things

For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. Ephesians 2:10

4. Free

It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery. Galatians 5:1-5

5. Complete

For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form, and in Christ you have been brought to fullness. He is the head over every power and authority. Colossians 2:9-10

6. Healed

But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was on him, and by his wounds we are healed. Isaiah 53:5

7. Redeemed

In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God’s grace that he lavished on us. With all wisdom and understanding Ephesians 1:7-8

8. Head and not the tail

The Lord will make you the head, not the tail. If you pay attention to the commands of the Lord your God that I give you this day and carefully follow them, you will always be at the top, never at the bottom. Deuteronomy 28:13

There are so many more of these littered throughout the Bible, but these are my personal favorites. Sometimes I find a particular affirmation harder to believe than others, but I realized that usually indicates that I have an insecurity that I need to bring to God.

I encourage you to write these down on a mirror or somewhere else and declare them over yourself as a daily reminder of your God-given identity. We all have insecurities, but I pray that the truth about who God says you are, would ring louder than the lies and standards that try to overwhelm you.

Are there any other Biblical affirmations you cling to? Drop them in the comments below!