You Are a Masterpiece
Ephesians 1:13 MSG
Its in Christ that you, once you heard the truth and believed it (this Message of your salvation), found yourselves home free-signed, sealed, and delivered by the Holy Spirit.
1. You Were Planned
Ephesians 1:4 MSG
Long before he laid down earth's foundations, he had us in mind, had settled on us as the focus of his love, to be made whole and holy by his love.
Jeremiah 1:5 NLT
"I knew you before I formed you in your mother's womb. Before you were born I set you apart and appointed you as my prophet to the nations."
Psalm 139:15
You watched me as I was being formed...You saw me before I was born.
2. You Were Beautifully and Purposefully Designed
Psalm 139:13-14a NLT
You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body and knit me together in my mother's womb. Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex!
Genesis 1:27 NLT
So God created human beings in his own image. In the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.
3. You Are One of a Kind
Ephesians 2:10 NLT
For we are God's masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago.
4. Your Name is Significant and Important to God
Isaiah 49:1 NLT
Listen to me, all you in distant lands! Pay attention, you who are far away! The Lord called me before my birth; from within the womb he called me by name.
Isaiah 43:1 NLT
But now, O Jacob, listen to the Lord who created you. O Israel, the one who formed you says, "Do not be afraid, for I have ransomed you. I have called you by name; you are mine.
John 10:3 NLT
The sheep recognize his voice and come to him. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.
Revelation 21:27 NLT
Nothing evil will be allowed to enter, nor anyone who practices shameful idolatry and dishonesty—but only those whose names are written in the Lamb's Book of Life.
