Discovering Your True Identity

By Sade Odiah

This book will help shed light on seeing God as the Creator with a plan for all mankind. This book will help you become more aware and confident in your identity and walk in Christ.

• Language: English
• Publisher: WestBow Press
• Release date: Jun 25, 2018
• ISBN: 9781973628453

Sade Odiah

Sade Odiah has been passionate about identity awareness in Christ for about 15 years. Now, for the first time, she shares everything given to her by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit to help believers see who they are in Christ Jesus.

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WestBow Press rev. date: 6/25/2018

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CONTENTS

Introduction

Chapter 1: In the Beginning

Chapter 2: Understanding an Identity

Chapter 3: Direct from the Source

Chapter 4: Transformation: Renew Your Mind

Chapter 5: So Who Are You Now? Redefining Your Identity

Chapter 6: Now, Live a Life of Purpose

Chapter 7: Be in Control to Maintain Your New Life

Chapter 8: Choose to Win!

Chapter 9: Fight the Good Fight of Faith to Remain in Him

Chapter 10: Protect Your Identity

INTRODUCTION

Answer this question in ten seconds: Who are you? Within that time, were you able to confidently say who you are without hesitating to think about your answer? Were you able to verbally express who you truly are? In ten seconds, can you verbally express your purpose in life? Do you have a firm and clear picture of whom God made you to be? Friend, you are not alone in this dilemma. Many have passed, are passing, and will pass through life, never being able to answer the same question, no matter the amount of time given to state their answer.

Psalm 139:14 (NKJV) says, I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Marvelous are Your works, And that my soul knows very well. Are you fully convinced that you are fearfully and wonderfully made? Our reality can only be as real as we believe it to be. We are subjects in the scripts of God. Hebrews 12:2 (NKJV) calls Jesus the Author and Finisher of our faith. He knows our beginning and our end. He knows our highlights and low times. He knows our victories and our losses. In 1 John 3:20 (NLT), scripture lets us know that He knows everything.

God has great plans for all His children—plans of peace and not of evil to give us hope and a wonderful future (Jeremiah 29:11 NLT). Your prosperous future is dependent on your empowered present. You are on a beautiful journey of life that births the manifestation of God’s