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What if the loudest thing shaping your life isn’t your schedule or your goals, but the name tag on your heart? We go after identity drift—the slow slide from living as God names you to living as pain, people, and performance define you—and map a way back to solid ground.

We start with a clear definition of identity drift and a vivid name tag metaphor that makes invisible labels visible. Then we trace how early voices and formative moments harden into scripts you carry for years, even after salvation. You’ll hear five signs you’re drifting—leading with roles, living in comparison, imagining God only tolerates you, letting your past dictate your future, and swinging between pride and self-hate—and why each sign quietly sabotages joy, relationships, calling, and resilience.

From there, we expose five common paths into false identity: wounds that named you, sins that became essence statements, religious performance that ties worth to report cards, cultural markers elevated above being in Christ, and role lock where “I am what I do for others” replaces “beloved.” We show how identity functions like an engine under everything—mind, body, time, gifts, and money all orbit your deepest answer to “Who am I?”—and why switching engines changes your whole trajectory.

You’ll get a practical, compassionate framework to move from default to design: write your honest I am statements, name their sources, ask whether Jesus agrees, replace them with scriptural truth, and pray through one tag at a time until your reflex shifts. Expect clear prompts, reflection questions, and Scripture anchors to carry into your week so you can trade “not enough” and “too much” for beloved, forgiven, adopted, new, and righteous in Him.


🧠 Identity Drift – Design Check-In Questions

Who has had the loudest voice in shaping my identity lately?

What “name tags” have I been quietly wearing that don’t come from God?

What past wound, mistake, or season still feels like “who I am” instead of “what I went through”?

IDENTITY DRIFT – “WORDS TO LIVE BY” CHEAT SHEET

1. I Am a New Creation

Declaration:

In Christ, I am a new creation. My old identity does not define me anymore.

Key Scripture:

• 2 Corinthians 5:17 – “If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.”
• (Support) Ephesians 4:22–24 – Put off the old self… put on the new self.

2. I Am Chosen and Beloved

Declaration: I am chosen by God and deeply loved, not overlooked or accidental.

Key Scripture:

• Ephesians 1:4 – He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world.
• 1 Peter 2:9 – You are a chosen race… a people for His own possession.
• 1 John 3:1 – “See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are.”

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