I believe in you, Lord Jesus. I follow you as Lord and Shepherd. I rejoice in you as redeemer and kinsman redeemer, my elder brother.

I give thanks to the father for placing me in Christ who qualifies me to share in the inheritance of the saints in light.  In Christ I am delivered from the domain of darkness and transferred to the kingdom of my Lord Jesus. In Jesus I have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.

My Lord Jesus is the Messiah, the one sent by God to save his people, to save me. Jesus, the Christ, is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn, preeminent, of all creation.  By him all things were created, things in heaven and on earth, visible or invisible, all things were created through him and for him. He was before all things and in him all things hold together.