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The following has been adapted from the devotionals of F.E. Marsh, a new resource coming soon to the Blue Letter Bible!

“For this very night there stood before me an angel of the God to whom I belong and whom I worship”
Acts 27:23 KJV

The Christian belongs to Christ.

  1. We are His by donation. We have been given to Christ by the Father (John 17:6).
  2. We are His by His death; for He has bought us with His blood (1 Corinthians 6:20).
  3. We are His by deliverance, for He has delivered us from the kingdom of darkness (Colossians 1:13).
  4. We are His by dependence, for by His grace we are what we are (1 Corinthians 15:10).
  5. We are His by His dwelling within us, for our bodies are the temples of the Holy Ghost (1 Corinthians 3:16).
  6. We are His by direction, for “as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God” (Romans 8:14).
  7. We are His by dedication, for we have yielded ourselves to Him (Romans 6:16).

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  4. We are His by creation, for He has made us (Psalm 100:3).

    We are His by adoption, for we have become sons (John 1:12), nay, but rather by birth, for we are born of the Spirit (John 3:5-8).

  5. Being Wholly His
    When the Galilean boy brought his bread to the Lord, what did the Lord do with it? He broke it. God will always break what is offered to him. He breaks what He takes, but after breaking it he blesses and uses it to meet the needs of others. After you give yourself to the Lord, he begins to break what was offered to him. Everything seems to go wrong, and you protest and find fault with the ways of God. But to stay there is to be no more than just a broken vessel – no good for the world because you have gone too far for the world to use you, and no good for God either because you have not gone far enough for him to use you. You are out of gear with the world, and you have a controversy with God. This is the tragedy of many Christian.
    My giving of myself to the Lord must be an initial fundamental act. Then, day by day, I must go on giving to him, not finding fault with his use of me, but accepting with praise even what the flesh finds hard. That way lies true enrichment.
    I am the Lord’s and now no longer reckon myself to be my own, but acknowledge in everything his ownership and authority. That is the attitude God delights in, and to maintain it is true consecration. I do not consecrate myself to be a missionary or a preacher; I consecrate myself to God to do his will where I am, be it in school, office or kitchen or wherever he may, in his wisdom, send me. Whatever he ordains for me is sure to be the very best, for nothing but good can come to those who are wholly his.
    May we always be possessed by the consciousness that we are not our own.
    ——-Watchman Nee——-
    The Normal Christian Life

  6. For we are Gods workmanship (masterpiece), created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them. Ephesians 2:10

  7. I am proud to belong to God, although He may not always be proud to have me. When you stumble, pick yourself up and remember that you are to be a shining light to those around you.

    God is good!

  8. We are His… not because we love Him, but because He loved us and sent His Son to be the wrath bearer for OUR sin! Praise and love HIS beautiful Name and go love your neighbor! 1 John 4:10