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Confident Identity: Christian Strategies to Forget Who You Aren't and Discover Who You Really Are
Where you’re most easily hurt, is where you have the most potential.
Are you ready to wake up every morning excited about your life? Do you long for a constant source of motivation? You can live with the same zeal that Jesus possessed.
In order to identify your greatest potential, you must first discover the area where you’ve experienced the greatest pain. Your suffering is a significant clue to your unique design. The greater your struggle, the closer you are to your core identity.
Reaching your potential requires leaving behind the familiar in order to pursue all of who God made you to be. You must risk stepping out from behind the people you look up to.
That’s right! You must be a rebel!
Are you ready to break with both the bad and the good in order to blaze a more fitting trail?
Understanding your identity unlocks your best possible life. The challenge involved in pursuing who you are isn’t for the faint of heart. Let your heart be strengthened since the results are incomparable to other options.
How many other things do you allow to exhaust you, when they don’t even provide lasting value? Yet, your identity is God’s greatest gift to you. You can never lose it.
When you know who you are, you have clearly defined boundaries. You know what you want and what you don’t want. What if you could look to your God-given identity as the key to making life decisions?
An unshakable identity withstands all the predicaments that life throws at you. When you invest in knowing who you are, you gain a permanent resource to help you overcome life’s difficulties.
Are you ready to make a unique contribution toward fulfilling God’s kingdom plans? God needs your undivided attention.
You’re God’s chosen weapon against evil. This is your call to unite with God to become everything he needs and desires you to be.
Forgot who you aren’t and discover who you really are.
Your identity is God’s greatest gift to you only if you open it up and discover who you are.
In these pages you’ll learn:
• What identity is and what identity isn’t
• How to reach your God-given potential
• How your experiences impact your self-worth
• What attributes make you unique
• How your identity helps you achieve your mission
To help you develop your Confident Identity, this
workbook contains:
• Scripture passages: Discover what God says about who you are
• Concept diagrams: Learn the principles visually
• For Reflection ideas: Think deeper about the chapter focus
• Next Steps actions: Learn experientially through exercises and self-assessments
• Movie suggestions: Watch movies to help you learn the chapter principle
• Music suggestions: Listen to inspirational songs to help the truth take root in your heart
Are you ready to wake up every morning excited about your life? Do you long for a constant source of motivation? You can live with the same zeal that Jesus possessed.
In order to identify your greatest potential, you must first discover the area where you’ve experienced the greatest pain. Your suffering is a significant clue to your unique design. The greater your struggle, the closer you are to your core identity.
Reaching your potential requires leaving behind the familiar in order to pursue all of who God made you to be. You must risk stepping out from behind the people you look up to.
That’s right! You must be a rebel!
Are you ready to break with both the bad and the good in order to blaze a more fitting trail?
Understanding your identity unlocks your best possible life. The challenge involved in pursuing who you are isn’t for the faint of heart. Let your heart be strengthened since the results are incomparable to other options.
How many other things do you allow to exhaust you, when they don’t even provide lasting value? Yet, your identity is God’s greatest gift to you. You can never lose it.
When you know who you are, you have clearly defined boundaries. You know what you want and what you don’t want. What if you could look to your God-given identity as the key to making life decisions?
An unshakable identity withstands all the predicaments that life throws at you. When you invest in knowing who you are, you gain a permanent resource to help you overcome life’s difficulties.
Are you ready to make a unique contribution toward fulfilling God’s kingdom plans? God needs your undivided attention.
You’re God’s chosen weapon against evil. This is your call to unite with God to become everything he needs and desires you to be.
Forgot who you aren’t and discover who you really are.
Your identity is God’s greatest gift to you only if you open it up and discover who you are.
In these pages you’ll learn:
• What identity is and what identity isn’t
• How to reach your God-given potential
• How your experiences impact your self-worth
• What attributes make you unique
• How your identity helps you achieve your mission
To help you develop your Confident Identity, this
workbook contains:
• Scripture passages: Discover what God says about who you are
• Concept diagrams: Learn the principles visually
• For Reflection ideas: Think deeper about the chapter focus
• Next Steps actions: Learn experientially through exercises and self-assessments
• Movie suggestions: Watch movies to help you learn the chapter principle
• Music suggestions: Listen to inspirational songs to help the truth take root in your heart
230 pages, Paperback
Published July 26, 2017
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About the author
Matt Pavlik
9 books22 followersMatt Pavlik has been a committed follower of Christ since 1991 and a professional counselor since 2000. He is the founder of his private practice New Reflections Counseling and the Christian Concepts blog. For over two decades, he has guided individuals and couples toward emotional healing and spiritual clarity.
Matt's pastoral writing style helps believers understand and apply God’s truth, encouraging spiritual growth. His work invites readers to move from confusion to assurance, from striving to resting—anchored in the truth of their identity in Christ. He draws inspiration from his walk with Christ, biblical insights, and his experience counseling thousands.
Secure in Christ reflects Matt’s approach to counseling and discipleship that is deeply incarnational—emphasizing the lived reality of Christ’s presence within each believer. Rather than offering abstract theology or behavior-based solutions, Matt helps readers experience spiritual transformation through relational connection, emotional honesty, and the indwelling life of Christ. His layered metaphors and practical reflections equip readers to stand on solid ground—no longer defined by fear or failure, but by the unwavering love of God.
Matt lives in Ohio with his wife and children. He continues to write, counsel, and build communities that foster transformation through truth and grace. To explore more of Matt’s writing and resources for spiritual formation, find him online at Christian Concepts.
Matt's pastoral writing style helps believers understand and apply God’s truth, encouraging spiritual growth. His work invites readers to move from confusion to assurance, from striving to resting—anchored in the truth of their identity in Christ. He draws inspiration from his walk with Christ, biblical insights, and his experience counseling thousands.
Secure in Christ reflects Matt’s approach to counseling and discipleship that is deeply incarnational—emphasizing the lived reality of Christ’s presence within each believer. Rather than offering abstract theology or behavior-based solutions, Matt helps readers experience spiritual transformation through relational connection, emotional honesty, and the indwelling life of Christ. His layered metaphors and practical reflections equip readers to stand on solid ground—no longer defined by fear or failure, but by the unwavering love of God.
Matt lives in Ohio with his wife and children. He continues to write, counsel, and build communities that foster transformation through truth and grace. To explore more of Matt’s writing and resources for spiritual formation, find him online at Christian Concepts.
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October 17, 2017
Confident Identity is a powerhouse book filled with practical tools and information to help readers discover their true identity. Written from the perspective of a licensed Christian counselor, the author combines Scripture and clinical theories to identify and evaluate the many negative experiences and self-concepts that keep so many of us from understanding our God-given identity, and walking in it consistently with confidence. Packed with examples, media recommendations, diagrams, and self-assessment tools, this isn't merely a "light-read" for the weekend. This is an integrated and interactive book useful for self-discovery. Encouraging, insightful, and grounded in the Word of God, I recommend this book for anyone looking for deeper meaning and greater significance in life.
October 6, 2017
Have you ever read a book that leaves you in a thoughtful place of contemplation long after the last page has been turned and the book is closed?
Confident Identity is that kind of book.
Days after reading its final pages, I found myself deliberately and intentionally processing the content of this book. Thinking through my personality, pondering my gifts, and praying through my God-given and life-shaped identity, I couldn't shake the significance of its words. In fact, I felt a sense of purpose after reading its words — a driving challenge to explore, expand, and exercise my identity for not only myself, but also for the edification of those around me and for the glorification of my Heavenly Father.
Confident Identity is a conversation-starter, a thought-generator, and a game-changer.
Combining Scripture, clinical theories, and practical tools, Matt has thoughtfully crafted a beautiful resource for not only those seeking to better understand and strengthen their identity, but also for those who work in both lay and professional settings. The book is filled with an abundance of insightful questions, constructive ideas, easy-to-read charts, and meaningful activities and tests which allow an individual to thoroughly explore and contemplate their identity.
This resource does a wonderful job of providing the reader with mini-therapeutic sessions that can be done in the confines of a home, over a cup of coffee with a trusted friend, in a church community group, or even in the safety of a therapist's office. As a therapist myself, this will be in a quick-to-reach spot in my office, as I see this book being a helpful, clinical resource when thinking through treatment plans and case conceptualization for those who are struggling in understanding, defining, and forming their identity.
Every follower of Christ could benefit from reading and engaging with the content of this book; I know I have.
Confident Identity is that kind of book.
Days after reading its final pages, I found myself deliberately and intentionally processing the content of this book. Thinking through my personality, pondering my gifts, and praying through my God-given and life-shaped identity, I couldn't shake the significance of its words. In fact, I felt a sense of purpose after reading its words — a driving challenge to explore, expand, and exercise my identity for not only myself, but also for the edification of those around me and for the glorification of my Heavenly Father.
Confident Identity is a conversation-starter, a thought-generator, and a game-changer.
Combining Scripture, clinical theories, and practical tools, Matt has thoughtfully crafted a beautiful resource for not only those seeking to better understand and strengthen their identity, but also for those who work in both lay and professional settings. The book is filled with an abundance of insightful questions, constructive ideas, easy-to-read charts, and meaningful activities and tests which allow an individual to thoroughly explore and contemplate their identity.
This resource does a wonderful job of providing the reader with mini-therapeutic sessions that can be done in the confines of a home, over a cup of coffee with a trusted friend, in a church community group, or even in the safety of a therapist's office. As a therapist myself, this will be in a quick-to-reach spot in my office, as I see this book being a helpful, clinical resource when thinking through treatment plans and case conceptualization for those who are struggling in understanding, defining, and forming their identity.
Every follower of Christ could benefit from reading and engaging with the content of this book; I know I have.
February 22, 2018
Book Review for Confident Identity
Knowing why you were created and what your purpose is essential to having a healthy identity. So many people, however, do not know their identity or have a false identity. Confident Identity provides in-depth covering of all the components of how one can have a secure identity in Christ.
Author Matt Pavlik, is a professional counselor with a Christian worldview. After reading this book and going through the assignments, tools, and identity tests in each chapter you will have felt as if you spent time in a counseling office. There are reflection questions and “next steps” at the end of each chapter, just as if you would get homework after a counseling session. You will be encouraged to write your vision and mission for life, how many can say that we have done that? We need to know where we are going in life otherwise we can wander aimlessly through life, Author Matt Pavlik walks you through step-by-step as he guides you through uncovering your true identity which can only be found through Jesus Christ.
For people who have searched for meaning in life, or if there is a deeper purpose for them-this book covers in great detail that each person has a unique design and plan. There are innumerable resources in this book to take you further in learning and exploring your true identity. After reading Confident Identity, you will have a firm grasp on who you are and why you were created.
I would recommend to take your time with this book, do not rush through it because there is a lot of great material and resources you don’t want to miss. Go back and read the book again if you are unfamiliar with new concepts, and keep this book on hand as you will want to read it again in the future.
Knowing why you were created and what your purpose is essential to having a healthy identity. So many people, however, do not know their identity or have a false identity. Confident Identity provides in-depth covering of all the components of how one can have a secure identity in Christ.
Author Matt Pavlik, is a professional counselor with a Christian worldview. After reading this book and going through the assignments, tools, and identity tests in each chapter you will have felt as if you spent time in a counseling office. There are reflection questions and “next steps” at the end of each chapter, just as if you would get homework after a counseling session. You will be encouraged to write your vision and mission for life, how many can say that we have done that? We need to know where we are going in life otherwise we can wander aimlessly through life, Author Matt Pavlik walks you through step-by-step as he guides you through uncovering your true identity which can only be found through Jesus Christ.
For people who have searched for meaning in life, or if there is a deeper purpose for them-this book covers in great detail that each person has a unique design and plan. There are innumerable resources in this book to take you further in learning and exploring your true identity. After reading Confident Identity, you will have a firm grasp on who you are and why you were created.
I would recommend to take your time with this book, do not rush through it because there is a lot of great material and resources you don’t want to miss. Go back and read the book again if you are unfamiliar with new concepts, and keep this book on hand as you will want to read it again in the future.
November 30, 2017
Do you wonder if you are enough?
Do you have a hard time quieting the naysayers in your head?
Ever wish you could talk to a counselor?
Then this is the book for you.
Dr. Matt Pavlik's book Confident Identity walks you through several exercises and explanations to help you find answers. Helping you find where your true Identity lies. I am not one for self-help reads but Dr. Pavlik caught my interest with his interactive style. It is a good book, I am sure will help many.
Do you have a hard time quieting the naysayers in your head?
Ever wish you could talk to a counselor?
Then this is the book for you.
Dr. Matt Pavlik's book Confident Identity walks you through several exercises and explanations to help you find answers. Helping you find where your true Identity lies. I am not one for self-help reads but Dr. Pavlik caught my interest with his interactive style. It is a good book, I am sure will help many.
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