Today was the first official day of our fast and the topic, amazingly enough is Identity/Wholeness - Dependency on God — Being Made Complete.

It is now becoming even more clear to me, just how important this season is because God continues to confirm it through His word.  My devotionals today both followed the same pattern.

Purpose Driven Life (Day 2) - I am not an accident
Daily Devotional -

So both of my devotions dealt with Identity today.  AMAZING.  The first talked of how God created the earth perfectly so that we could survive and thrive on it.  How each of us were created on purpose and for a purpose.  Whether or not you were planned by your parents, God planned you. Before we were in the womb, He knew and predestined us. 

 It is funny because I was actually having this conversation with a friend of mine last week.  She was in a funk and was beginning to feel as if God had given up on her.  This lead further down an ugly path when she said she felt as if she were a mistake, and that some people were never meant to be brought into the world.  That she was unplanned, and unloved and basically it was because her parents made a mistake. 

Immediately my mind started realing and praying for God to give me the scriptures, the words to say to her to let her know that she is NOT a mistake, that God doesn’t make mistakes, that He has a purpose for everything including her.  That the same God that made the heavens and the earth, who arose from the dead, who healed the sick, turned water into wine, empregnated a virgin, could have stopped her from being here if she was not His intent.  That good old list of scriptures I had been collecting came in handy.  I reminded her that she is the light of the world, the salt of the earth, a royal preisthood.  That God knows that thoughts that he things towards her, to do her Good and not Harm. 

Today I am saying these very same scriptures to myself.  No matter how deep you are, we all fall.  No matter how much word you know, the devil has a special nact for getting you alone, and helping you forget, who you are and WHOSE you are.  So I say this, my goal not just for today, but for everyday from here on out, and especially those days that the chips are not stacked my way, I will remind myself of these things:

1. I am a friend of God (John 15:15)
2. I am God’s workmanship (Ephesians 2:10)
3. I am predestined and have obtained an inheritance (Ephesians 1:11)
4. I am annointed (2 Corinthians 1:22)
5. I am the Fragrance of God (2 Corinthians 2:15)
6. I am the salt of the Earth (Mathew 5:13)
7. I am the light of the World (Mathew 5:14)
8. I am a special treasure (Exodus 19:15)
9. I am a chosen generation and a royal priesthood. (1 Peter 2:9)
10. I have been adopted by God (Ephesians 1:5-6)
11. I have been justified (Romans 5:1)
12. My body is the temple of the Holy Spirit (1 Corinthians 6:19)
13. I am protected (1 John 5:18)
14. I am redeemed (Isaiah 43:1)