Sword and Shield

Heart Guide for Lesson 17:
Accepted in the Beloved

Learn to take a stand on what God says about who you are in Him - and then keep standing! No one says this will be easy, only that it really works if you work it. Standing firm on the truth of scripture is what even Jesus did in the face of strong temptation. We are not greater than He (Matthew 10:24-25). Let's do it His way!

"Yet the Lord had a delight in loving your fathers, and He chose their descendants after them, you above all peoples, as it is this day." Deuteronomy 10:15 AMP

But Zion said, 'The Lord has forsaken me; my Lord has forgotten me.'  'Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should have no compassion on the son of her womb? Even these may forget, yet I will not forget you. Behold, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands; your walls are continually before me.' Isaiah 49:14-16 ESV

For thus said the Lord of hosts, after his glory sent me to the nations who plundered you, for he who touches you touches the apple of his eye. Zechariah 2:8 ESV

"Teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age." Matthew 28:20 ESV

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come. 2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love he predestined us for adoption through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will, to the praise of his glorious grace, with which he has blessed us in the Beloved. Ephesians 1:3-6 ESV  

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