Prayer for Identity

God sees us as we are.We are being transformed.

Father, I thank you that you have given us a different way to live our lives. We realize that the battle for our lives is really a battle for identity. We often see ourselves as insufficient, cursed and unsatisfactory.

We know that’s not the way you see us.

You see us wrapped in your righteousness.

prepared for your purpose

Eternally important

And deeply loved

How can this be?

Is your love, grace and freedom really that strong?

Strong enough to know us, claim us, redeem us and empower us?

Who are we that you would care for us like that?

Who are we that you would choose us?

Who are we that you would place your holy hands on us?

Enter into our story and make it a part of Your story?

Lord, outside of You we are a vanishing vapor, a fleeting flower… here today, gone tomorrow.

But in your words you say that we are valuable

We are chosen

We are Yours forever.

We are set apart

Help us to live with that perspective.

Help us, as difficult as it seems some days, to live in the love that sent a sinless Savior to a dying world to claim us as yours.