R E A D 

Ephesians 1:3, 13-14| “Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ. And now you Gentiles have also heard the truth, the Good News that God saves you. And when you believed in Christ, he identified you as his own by giving you the Holy Spirit, whom he promised long ago. The Spirit is God’s guarantee that he will give us the inheritance he promised and that he has purchased us to be his own people. He did this so we would praise and glorify him.”

R E F L E C T  

1. How did you see God’s blessings on you this week?
2. What are gifts God has given us when we put our trust completely in Him? 
3. What might your life look like if you more fully embraced God’s deep affection for you? What obstacles keep you from this experience?

R E S P O N D 

1. Where do you draw your identity from now?
2. What would it look like to allow Jesus to be the beginning of how you see yourself?
3. Which of the truths identified by Paul in this passage (holy/blameless, adopted, redeemed/forgiven, eternal security, chosen) do you struggle to believe? Why?
4. How does our identity in Jesus reshape other aspects of who we are?

P R A Y E R 

Lord, I pray that You would unlock my heart that I might be fully alive to my true identity in You. Give me clear revelation to see myself the way You see me. Help me to stand in your Truth against all attacks of the enemy and guard my heart with all vigilance, so I may glorify You!