We easily exclude ourselves from the household of God by calling ourselves sinners and holding ourselves ransom with our past. If you doubt Ephesians 1:1 then check out Romans 1:7 where you are called a saint, a holy person, and one who is loved by God. This isn’t a question for God but for you: do you believe it?

You can say “Liza, I don’t trust myself and I don’t think I ever will. How can I then be considered faithful?” Well, the response is at Jude 24

New International Version
To him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you before his glorious presence without fault and with great joy

God sustains your faithfulness in faith and in life. Your moral compass will be broken without God’s Guidance.

The next time the enemy tries to hinge your identity on your past, visit these verses in Romans chapter 8 and check back in with Ephesians 1.

Being a saint is your inheritance. In the house you come from, faithfulness is in you – refuse that lie that you don’t know how to follow through with things, relationships and faith.

Refuse that negative thought that says you will always be a sinner. Holiness already resides in you.

Activities

  • Make a list of everything that makes you feel like you are not a saint in the column “areas my sainthood will be revealed” and a list of everything you want/wish to be more faithful at in the “my faithfulness radiates”
Areas of sainthood will be revealed inMy faithfulness radiates

Affirmations

A believer’s affirmation/declaration is an agreement with heaven. It is saying “yea and amen” to the promises of God. It is an open arm ready to embrace the bounty that God wants to pour, a valley full of ditches that are expecting water to flow even when there is no rain or dew. It is a creative invitation to brood upon the deep with YAH and say “light be!”

I am not inviting you to merely mouth a few words. I am saying we don’t look at the cloud or wind as we sow our words. Dare to call things that be not as though they already exist at this moment.

Affirm with me

  • I am a saint.
  • I have what it takes to be holy.
  • I live from faithfulness and I don’t struggle to be faithful.
  • God can count on me. I can count on me. People can count on me. God’s earth can count on me.
  • I am faithful in Christ Jesus.