Who I Am In Christ Devotionals

  There is no salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved. Acts 4:12 Time and Time Again Jesus is the only way to salvation. Just Jesus. That's it. So what is this salvation? It is being washed by Jesus, being made acceptable to the Father. It's preparing me for heaven. It's giving me what I need to prevail over sin and darkness in my life. It makes me part of His people, His church. I need not go looking for salvation answers elsewhere. There is no other name... Of course that does not mean that I don't listen to other believers. They have pointed me back to Jesus time and time again. And I can and do learn important things from non-believers. Even things about how to think. Only Jesus It's good men who told me that I mattered to God when I had trouble believing it. They told me that He would heal me in this work of recovery and they told me how He had worked in their lives. They told me that I needed to

  Little children, you are from God and have overcome them, for he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world. 1 John 4:4 Confessing Jesus One way that I know that I am a believer is that I confess that Jesus is who He says He is, the messiah, the Son of God who died for my sins and rose on the third day. If you look at 1 John, where it says, “them” John is referring to people who don’t confess Jesus. But I do. And the more I confess Him, the more I trust Him. I love the amazing claims that his verse makes. First it says that I am from God and have over come those (spirits) who don’t confess Jesus. And I think he is mainly talking about people, for we are all spirits moving around in a flesh tractor. My spirit is the real me. I have, past tense, overcome those spirits who don’t confess Jesus. I’m going to be honest here: I don’t always feel like some big old spiritual overcomer. Some of those people who rail against God and His church, either directly or indirectly, worry me.