I AM God's CHOSEN Daughter

Ephesians 1:3-6
2 Timothy 1:9
Ephesians 2: 8-9

While doing my devotion with My Father. The Holy Spirit led me to this wonderful piece by Ken Gilbert that I encourage everyone to read (http://community.valleychurch.org/people/kengilbert/ChoosingorChosen.pdf) . I pulled an excerpt that was incredible in putting into perspective my relationship with God:

"I receive God's gift of grace through which I believe, and because I believe I have faith that saves me, and therefore I am justified, made righteous, according to the work done by Christ on the cross when He died in my place. And all of this has nothing to do with anything I did or didnt do, so I can never boast, and so God gets all the credit and all the glory. I must decrease so that He may increase. All glory, all honor, and all praise belongs to our God, and none of any of it belongs to me..."

God initiates a Faith relationship. He therefore called me. " For those God foreknew He also predestined to be conformed in the likeness of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brothers. And those He predestined, He also called; those He called, He also justified; those He justified, He also glorified."(Romans 8: 29-30). God chose me at the right time to pull me out of the world and train me for His Purpose in the body of Christ...Therefore any- and every- thing I do I cannot boast about. For it isn't me but the God in me enabling me to do it all in my new found identity. God WILL and ALWAYS get the glory...He's the Alpha and Omega. The eternal God. I didn't save myself from the world of sin...God did... I didn't have the strength to do it. If I did, I would have already been figured out this life thing already...but then I'd get the credit not God. And God does not share His glory with anyone. God is supreme. I still do struggle with the world, still waiting for Him to deliver me from a host of things....but God is yet still able to use me for His Glory, for His good work....In spite of my flaws and weaknesses...He is able to accomplish the supernatural in and through me. I'm not perfect. The only perfect part of me was bought by the blood of the Lamb of God = God's GRACE. He does all these so our natural response would be to worship Him and approach Him with a humbled spirit and grateful heart for His amazing goodness. Since my original parents sinned, and the wage of sin is death...I was redeemed by a God who loves me sooo much to send His Son to die for me...The only perfect acceptable offering to cleanse my sins once and for all... Unfortunately, I'm to live in this world with the carnal man i me. Forever stamped by the fall of man from Grace....But I am able to rise against the flesh by the Power of the Holy Spirit in me and the beautiful, sweet Grace of my Father. I CAN because God helps me. That's the only way to make it through. It is God, My Father, My strength, My Hope, with me through all of Life.

Thank You Father for creating me for You...For Your pleasure. Thank You for delighting over and in me. Thank You for choosing me - Your precious Daughter. I truly Am Your BELOVED...My DADDY IS AWESOME!!! :-D

" the Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God's children" (Romans 8:16)