Eldredge - Becoming myself: embracing Gods dream of you

To him who is able to keep you from falling and to present you before his glorious presence without fault and with great joyto the only God our Savior be glory, majesty, power and authority, through Jesus Christ our Lord, before all ages, now and forevermore! Amen. (Jude vv. 2425)

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afterword

I think its just a bit funny that this is called the Afterword. Let me be clearit doesnt mean, after youve become yourself, but simply, after youve read the book. Remember, its a journey! We will arrive one day and be fully ourselves, fully restored, and fully transformed. But for nowlet the process continue!

I want to encourage you to stay with it. This isnt the kind of book that you read and then simply toss aside for the next thing. This is the journey of your life. Your growing in knowing God is the key to your living the life you are meant to live. Let the messages and themes in this book marinate in your heart. There is more life to be had. There is more healing, more freedom, and more joy! Here are some helps we have created for you:

The Becoming Myself Study Guide for use in groups or as individuals.

A Becoming Myself video seriesreleasing in January 2014! Perfect for groups! (The study guide can be used with the book alone or with the video series.)

Facebookcome to my Stasi Eldredge page! Ill be posting blogs and videos and just sharing life with you.

Ransomed Heartour ministry is a treasure trove of resources. Were a little band devoted to Jesus, to bringing his kingdom and to restoring the hearts of men and women all over the world. We have so many resources to help you grow in your own becoming! Come visit us at www.ransomedheart.com . Sign up to receive the free (!) Daily Readings. Browse our store. Come to one of our conferences. Like us on Facebook. Read our blogs. Join with others who are on this path. Our desire is to strengthen the hearts of Gods people. We want to introduce Jesus to folks whove never met him or who have a lower version of who he really is!

The more we know Jesus, the more we love him. The more we love him, the more healed and ourselves we become. People actually will ask you for the reason for the hope that is within you! Jesus is the reason. He is so marvelous, and there is no end to discovering the beauty and majesty of his alluring heart. So let the adventure continue.

Were in it together!

With and in and for Christ,
Stasi

the daily prayer

Over the years, weve learned a great deal about prayermostly through facing our own trials, crying out for help, studying the Scripture, and asking Jesus, as the disciples did, Teach us to pray! We offer to you The Daily Prayerthe prayer we have found to be so effective that we dont let a day go by now without praying some version of it. May it bring you freedom, restoration, breakthrough, and life!

My dear Lord Jesus, I come to you now to be restored in you, to be renewed in you, to receive your life and your love and all the grace and mercy I so desperately need this day. I honor you as my Lord, and I surrender every aspect and dimension of my life to you. I give you my spirit, soul, and body, my heart, mind, and will. I cover myself with your bloodmy spirit, soul, and body, my heart, mind, and will. I ask your Holy Spirit to restore me in you, renew me in you, and lead this time of prayer. In all that I now pray, I stand in total agreement with your Spirit and with all those praying for me by the Spirit of God and by the Spirit of God alone.

Dearest God, holy and victorious Trinity, you alone are worthy of all my worship, my hearts devotion, all my praise, all my trust, and all the glory of my life. I love you, I worship you, and I give myself over to you in my hearts search for life. You alone are Life, and you have become my life. I renounce all other gods, every idol, and I give to you, God, the place in my heart and in my life that you truly deserve. This is all about you and not about me. You are the Hero of this story, and I belong to you. I ask your forgiveness for my every sin. Search me, know me, reveal to me where you are working in my life, and grant to me the grace of your healing and deliverance and a deep and true repentance.

Heavenly Father, thank you for loving me and choosing me before you made the world. You are my true Fathermy Creator, Redeemer, Sustainer, and the True End of all things, including my life. I love you; I trust you; I worship you. I give myself over to you, Father, to be one with you as Jesus is one with you. Thank you for proving your love for me by sending Jesus. I receive him and all his life and all his work, which you ordained for me. Thank you for including me in Christ, forgiving me my sins, granting me his righteousness, making me complete in him. Thank you for making me alive with Christ, raising me with him, seating me with him at your right hand, establishing me in his authority, and anointing me with your love and your Spirit and your favor. I receive it all with thanks and give it total claim to my lifemy spirit, soul, and body, my heart, mind, and will.

Jesus, thank you for coming to ransom me with your own life. I love you, worship you, trust you. I give myself over to you, to be one with you in all things. I receive all the work and triumph of your cross, death, blood, and sacrifice for methrough which my every sin is atoned for; I am ransomed, delivered from the kingdom of darkness, and transferred to your kingdom; my sin nature is removed; my heart is circumcised unto God; and every claim being made against me is canceled and disarmed. I take my place now in your cross and death, dying with you to sin, to my flesh, to this world, to the Evil One and his kingdom. I take up the cross and crucify my flesh with all its pride, arrogance, unbelief, and idolatry [add anything else you are currently struggling with]. I put off the old man. Apply to me all the work and triumph in your cross, death, blood, and sacrifice; I receive it with thanks and give it total claim to my spirit, soul, and body, my heart, mind, and will.

Jesus, I also receive you as my Life, and I receive all the work and triumph in your resurrection, through which you have conquered sin, death, judgment, and the Evil One. Death has no power over you, nor does any foul thing. And I have been raised with you to a new life, to live your lifedead to sin and alive to God. I take my place now in your resurrection and in your life, and I give my life to you to live your life. I am saved by your life. I reign in life through your life. I receive your hope, love, faith, joy, goodness, trueness, wisdom, power, and strength. Apply to me all the work and triumph in your resurrection; I receive it with thanks, and I give it total claim to my spirit, soul, and body, my heart, mind, and will.

Jesus, I also sincerely receive you as my authority, rule, and dominion, my everlasting victory against Satan and his kingdom, and my ability to bring your kingdom at all times and in every way. I receive all the work and triumph in your ascension, through which Satan has been judged and cast down. All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to you. All authority in the heavens and on this earth has been given to you, Jesus, and you are worthy to receive all glory and honor, power and dominion, now and forever. I take my place now in your authority and in your throne, through which I have been raised with you to the right hand of the Father and established in your authority. I give myself to you, to reign with you always. Apply to me all the work and triumph in your authority and your throne; I receive it with thanks, and I give it total claim to my spirit, soul, and body, my heart, mind, and will.

I now bring the authority, rule, and dominion of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the full work of Christ, over my life todayover my home, my household, my work, over all my kingdom and domain. I bring the authority of the Lord Jesus Christ and the full work of Christ against every evil power coming against meagainst every foul spirit, every foul power and device. [You might need to name them. What has been attacking you?] I cut them off in the name of the Lord, I bind and banish them from me and from my kingdom now, in the mighty name of Jesus Christ. I also bring the full work of Christ between me and every person, and I allow only the love of God and only the Spirit of God between us.