{"id":16871,"date":"2014-01-12T02:30:17","date_gmt":"2014-01-12T07:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/?p=16871"},"modified":"2014-01-12T02:46:25","modified_gmt":"2014-01-12T07:46:25","slug":"who-am-i-i-am-yours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/2014\/01\/12\/who-am-i-i-am-yours\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Am I?  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Whom shall I fear<br \/>\nWhom shall I fear &#8217;cause<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"> <strong>I am Yours, I am Yours<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cjhxOv9YDag\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">~ \u00a0written by Mark Hall; performed by Casting Crowns \u00a0~<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">~~~ \u00a0 ~~~ \u00a0 ~~~ \u00a0 ~~~ \u00a0 ~~~ \u00a0 ~~~ \u00a0 ~~~<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cWHO AM I?\u201d have we not asked ourselves this question time upon time upon time? We, of ourselves,&#8230;we are not much. But, for those who have accepted Jesus as Redeemer and Savior&#8230;and made Him to be Lord of their lives, we are MUCH in and through Him! God\u2019s eternal plan of redemption was to rescue back for Himself those He had created for fellowship! He tells us <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">\u2018You are Mine<\/span>!\u2019<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">But now, this is what the Lord says\u2014<br \/>\nHe who created you, Jacob,<br \/>\nHe who formed you, Israel:<br \/>\n\u201cDo not fear, for I have redeemed you;<br \/>\nI have summoned you by name; <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">you are Mine<\/span>.\u201d<br \/>\nIsaiah 43:1<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cYou!\u201d \u00a0Yes, you. \u00a0And me, too. \u00a0Go back for a moment, please&#8230;everywhere in that verse, where it reads \u201cyou\u201d place your own name&#8230;say it out loud. \u201cI have summoned you, Coleen, by name; you, Coleen, are Mine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Almighty God, the Creator of the heavens and the earth tells me, \u2018<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">You are Mine<\/span>!\u201d Not due to anything I might have accomplished, or any accolade I may have received. Not because of any credential I might have, or even any good and righteous act. \u00a0Just because I am who God says I am!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Not because of who I am&#8230;but because of what &lt;He\u2019s&gt; done<br \/>\nNot because of what I&#8217;ve done&#8230;but because of who &lt;He is&gt;!<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow we begin this journey through Ruth Myers\u2019 book, CHRIST|Life, Embracing Your True and Deepest Identity. \u00a0Listen to how she encourages:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cIn this book, we\u2019ll see how He expands our self-image as we allow Him to. This will broaden our view of what is really possible for us. He superimposes a glorious, positive self-image over our false and negative views of ourselves. This helps to make triumphant living possible\u201d \u00a0(page 7).<\/li>\n<li>And, \u201cThe closer we walk with the Lord, the more vividly we\u2019ll learn to recognize both the negatives and the positive about ourselves\u201d (page 8).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">We will come to recognize just who we are in Christ! \u00a0Oh, to trust and believe it\u2014I am who God says I am. \u00a0I am His!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who am I, that the Lord of all the earth Would care to know my name, would care to feel my hurt Who am I, that the Bright and Morning Star, would choose to light the way For my ever-wandering heart I am a flower quickly fading, here today and gone tomorrow A wave tossed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":16878,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5040,4937],"tags":[2645,5044,5042,235,1287,425,5041,5043,1173,1141],"class_list":["post-16871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christlife-bible-study","category-psalms-hymns-and-spiritual-songs","tag-casting-crowns","tag-christlife","tag-christlife-online-bible-study","tag-coleen-hayden","tag-gch","tag-girlfriends-coffee-hour","tag-i-am-yours","tag-isaiah-431","tag-self-image","tag-womens-online-bible-study","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/who-am-i-i-am-yours.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p39pHp-4o7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16871"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16875,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16871\/revisions\/16875"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}