I Am Who You Say I Am: Finding Your Identity in Christ

If you had an abusive childhood, you can probably still hear your father’s or mother’s words ringing in your mind—”You’re worthless. You’ll never amount to anything. I wish you were never born. You’re nothing but trouble.”

 Since they were your parents and adults, you figured they must have been right. The constant insults and put-downs became your identity. After all, how could a bad child ever become a good adult?

 Then as you got older, you got a job, got married and had kids. But you always felt unable to be successful as an employee, husband or father. Or anything else.

 You were fulfilling the words you had constantly heard. In your mind, you really had amounted to nothing. You thought you had become exactly what they said you would become.

Claim Your Prophetic Promises

Dr. Ted Roberts is the founder of Pure Desire Ministries and the host of the award-winning Conquer Series, a cinematic small-group study helping men find freedom from pornography. He understands your feelings about your past.

 Dr. Ted was raised in a dysfunctional home by an alcoholic mother and seven abusive stepfathers who passed through his childhood. He even recalls one of his stepfathers beating him when young Ted tried to stop him from drowning his mother.

Dr. Roberts says that to overcome your emotional wounds and the negativity you have experienced, you need to discover your prophetic promises. He offers this process:

1. Think about four times when God encountered you.

 These are not times when you heard a good sermon or song or read a good book. Think of times when your brain encountered the presence of God.

3. Attach those prophetic promises to Scripture.

 “There has to be positive self-talk,” Dr. Roberts says. “The primary battle we have is in our heads. The voice in your head saying, ‘You’re not going to make it’, ‘You don’t have what it takes’, ‘You’re going to screw up’—that voice is from hell.”

 When you hear that voice, you need to understand what you’re feeling. Then fight back against the enemy.

 “When that tightness of the gut, that tightness of breathing, you’re starting to feel like you’re going to choke, that’s when you turn around and take that prophetic message and you shove it down the enemy’s throat,” Dr. Roberts says.

God is able to take the wounds of your past and give you an exciting future free from the bondage of pornography.

Ask your church leaders to get the Conquer Series so all the men of your church can view it together. Or you can join an online small group.

Order the Conquer Series today.