Over the past 24 years, I have felt small, lonely, unloved, forgotten, ashamed, broken, ugly, and different. Despite what I have gone through and the experiences I have had, I am not that person anymore. I have experienced life. Here are a few truths I have discovered.
I am healed and made whole.
Your people will rebuild the ancient ruins and will raise up the age-old foundations; you will be called Repairer of Broken Walls, Restorer of Streets with Dwellings.
Isaiah 58:12
I am made new because Jesus came and gave me life.
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!
2 Corinthians 5:17
I am chosen.
But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a hold nation, a people belonging to God.
1 Peter 2:9
He is for me.
If God is for us, who can be against us.
Romans 8:31
I can do good.
For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works.
Ephesians 2:10
I am not of this world.
I have given them your word and the world has hated them, for they are not of the world and more than I am of the world.
John 17:14
I am loved.
I have given them your word and the world has hated them, for they are not of the world and more than I am of the world.
John 17:14
I am loved.
For I wrote you out of great distress and anguish of heart and with many tears,
not to grieve you but to let you know the depth of my love for you.
2 Corinthians 2:4
He has won.
Yet the Lord longs to be gracious to you; he rises to show you compassion.
For the Lord is a God of justice.
Isaiah 30:18
Be encouraged, dear ones, to know this love that surpasses knowledge - that you may have power to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ. Ephesians 3:18-19
