Recognizing Your Value

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He asked the pastor what all the names 0:01:56.480 --> 0:01:59.920 were for. The pastor explained how that was a memorial 0:02:00.440 --> 0:02:03.640 to all the young men and women that died in 0:02:03.720 --> 0:02:07.800 the service. The little boy stood there silently, so concerned. 0:02:08.240 --> 0:02:10.520 He finally looked up and asked, was it the eight 0:02:10.639 --> 0:02:14.840 thirty or eleven o'clock service? Say it like you mean it. 0:02:15.160 --> 0:02:17.959 This is my Bible. I am what it says. I am. 0:02:18.440 --> 0:02:20.880 I have what it says I have. I can do 0:02:20.960 --> 0:02:23.560 what it says I can do. Today I will be 0:02:23.639 --> 0:02:27.640 taught the word of God. I boldly confess my mind 0:02:27.720 --> 0:02:31.079 is alert my heart is receptive. I will never be 0:02:31.240 --> 0:02:36.480 the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want 0:02:36.520 --> 0:02:40.919 to talk to you today about recognizing your value. Too 0:02:41.000 --> 0:02:44.760 often we base our value on how someone is treating us, 0:02:45.360 --> 0:02:49.799 how successful we are, how perfect of a life we've lived. 0:02:50.040 --> 0:02:53.960 The problem is all of those things can change. If 0:02:53.960 --> 0:02:56.919 you're getting your value out of how people treat you, 0:02:57.520 --> 0:03:00.840 then if they hurt you, they disappoint you, you're going 0:03:00.919 --> 0:03:05.080 to feel devalued. If you're basing your value off of 0:03:05.120 --> 0:03:08.920 your achievements, how much you make, what you drive, the 0:03:08.960 --> 0:03:12.360 title behind your name, then if something happens and you 0:03:12.400 --> 0:03:16.079 don't have that position, your business goes down, then your 0:03:16.200 --> 0:03:19.880 value will go down. And some people don't feel good 0:03:19.919 --> 0:03:23.440 about themselves because they've made mistakes in life. They're not 0:03:23.480 --> 0:03:26.639 where they thought they would be. Now, they're living insecure, 0:03:27.160 --> 0:03:32.760 feeling inferior. They're basing their value on their performance. Here's 0:03:32.800 --> 0:03:36.840 the key. Your value should be based solely on the 0:03:36.880 --> 0:03:40.080 fact that you are a child of the most high God, 0:03:40.720 --> 0:03:43.920 the creator of the universe, reads his life into you. 0:03:44.720 --> 0:03:49.000 How someone treats you doesn't change your value. What they 0:03:49.080 --> 0:03:53.520 say or do doesn't lessen who you are. Mistakes you've 0:03:53.560 --> 0:03:58.120 made doesn't decrease your value. That's what you did, that's 0:03:58.160 --> 0:04:01.320 not who you are. You can buy a bigger house, 0:04:01.680 --> 0:04:04.720 drive a better car, but that doesn't make you any 0:04:04.800 --> 0:04:09.800 more valuable. That increases your net worth, not your self worth. 0:04:10.560 --> 0:04:13.920 You were already valuable when you had the small apartment 0:04:14.280 --> 0:04:18.120 and no title behind your name. That position may give 0:04:18.200 --> 0:04:22.200 you more influence, but not more value. You can be 0:04:22.240 --> 0:04:25.840 a stay at home mom raising your children. You may 0:04:25.880 --> 0:04:29.400 not have the influence of the CEO, but you have 0:04:29.480 --> 0:04:33.360 the same value. Value is not based on what you do, 0:04:33.480 --> 0:04:37.080 what you make, who you know. That's superficial. Those things 0:04:37.120 --> 0:04:42.839 can change. Your value comes from your creator. God breathed 0:04:42.880 --> 0:04:46.640 his life into you. You have the DNA of Almighty God. 0:04:47.120 --> 0:04:51.400 You have royalty in your blood. But the enemy works 0:04:51.440 --> 0:04:55.479 over time trying to devalue us. He'd love for you 0:04:55.560 --> 0:04:58.839 to go through life letting what people say make you 0:04:58.920 --> 0:05:04.440 feel inferior, comparing your life to somebody else's thinking. You'll 0:05:04.440 --> 0:05:07.719 feel good about yourself when you catch up to them, 0:05:07.920 --> 0:05:11.479 when you live in that neighborhood, or when you perform 0:05:11.560 --> 0:05:15.480 perfectly when you break the addiction, then you'll feel valuable. 0:05:16.080 --> 0:05:19.599 But nothing you do will make you any more valuable. 0:05:20.279 --> 0:05:25.440 Nothing you achieve, nothing you overcome. You are valuable right now. 0:05:26.040 --> 0:05:30.120 God calls you a masterpiece. You are one of a kind. 0:05:30.760 --> 0:05:34.560 You didn't come off an assembly line. You weren't mass produced. 0:05:34.880 --> 0:05:37.919 God made you unique. There will never be another. 0:05:38.040 --> 0:05:38.120 You. 0:05:38.800 --> 0:05:42.840 Put your shoulders back, start carrying yourself with confidence. You 0:05:42.880 --> 0:05:47.480 have been fearfully and wonderfully made. In Luke chapter four, 0:05:47.839 --> 0:05:51.360 Jesus was led by the spirit into the desert, where 0:05:51.360 --> 0:05:54.440 he was tempted three times. He'd been out there for 0:05:54.440 --> 0:05:58.920 forty days and hadn't eaten anything. The enemy said to him, 0:05:59.120 --> 0:06:02.919 if you're the son of God, turn these stones into bread. 0:06:03.760 --> 0:06:06.640 He was trying to make his value be based on 0:06:06.760 --> 0:06:10.760 his performance. If you turn these stones into bread, you 0:06:10.800 --> 0:06:13.640 can prove you're the son of God. Then you can 0:06:13.680 --> 0:06:17.760 feel good about yourself. You performed a miracle. Jesus wouldn't 0:06:17.760 --> 0:06:20.760 do it. He said. Man doesn't live by bread alone. 0:06:21.440 --> 0:06:24.039 He was saying, in effect, I don't have to do 0:06:24.279 --> 0:06:27.839 anything to prove who I am. I don't have to 0:06:27.920 --> 0:06:31.600 perform to feel good about myself. I know who I am. 0:06:32.320 --> 0:06:35.720 The enemy couldn't deceive him into getting his value out 0:06:35.760 --> 0:06:41.400 of being performance based so he tried possession based. He 0:06:41.440 --> 0:06:44.400 took Jesus to a high place, showed him all the 0:06:44.520 --> 0:06:46.960 kingdoms of the world. He said, you can have it 0:06:47.000 --> 0:06:51.640 all if you'll just bow down and worship me. Jesus said, no, thanks. 0:06:52.040 --> 0:06:56.039 I don't need possessions to prove my worth and value. 0:06:56.240 --> 0:06:58.720 I don't have to have what you think is important 0:06:59.040 --> 0:07:02.159 to feel good about who who I am. Possession based 0:07:02.160 --> 0:07:05.840 didn't work. Performance based didn't work, so the enemy tried 0:07:05.920 --> 0:07:10.960 one final thing, popularity. He took Jesus to the highest 0:07:11.000 --> 0:07:14.800 place in the temple, was very crowded below all kinds 0:07:14.840 --> 0:07:17.120 of people. He said, if you're the son of God, 0:07:17.520 --> 0:07:21.160 jump off this building. You said your angels would protect you. 0:07:22.040 --> 0:07:25.440 He was trying to get Jesus to show off. Everybody 0:07:25.480 --> 0:07:30.080 would see and be amazed. He'd gain instant popularity. Jesus 0:07:30.160 --> 0:07:33.960 said it again, I don't need possessions. I don't need popularity. 0:07:34.240 --> 0:07:37.840 I don't need performance to feel valuable. I know who 0:07:37.920 --> 0:07:41.960 I am. I'm the son of the living God. The 0:07:42.160 --> 0:07:46.120 enemy tried to deceive Jesus into proving who he was, 0:07:46.760 --> 0:07:50.000 and a lot of people live in approving mode. They 0:07:50.080 --> 0:07:53.960 can't feel good about themselves unless they prove to people 0:07:53.960 --> 0:07:57.200 they're important, proved to their co worker their talented, and 0:07:57.600 --> 0:08:00.960 proved to their critics that they really are okay. There's 0:08:01.000 --> 0:08:07.160 a constant struggle. They're always having to outdo, outperform, outdrive, outdress. 0:08:08.080 --> 0:08:11.240 It's very free when you realize you don't have to 0:08:11.240 --> 0:08:15.880 prove anything. You don't have to impress people. Take the 0:08:15.960 --> 0:08:20.440 pressure off. It takes a lot of energy to compete, 0:08:20.880 --> 0:08:25.400 to prove, to impress. If you live in approving mode, 0:08:25.520 --> 0:08:29.000 it's like you're on a treadmill. As soon as you 0:08:29.080 --> 0:08:32.480 prove to one person you're okay, you'll see somebody else 0:08:32.520 --> 0:08:36.400 you need to impress to never ending cycle. Get off 0:08:36.440 --> 0:08:40.240 that treadmill. You're working hard but not going anywhere. You 0:08:40.320 --> 0:08:44.080 don't have to prove anything. And these days there's so 0:08:44.160 --> 0:08:48.800 much emphasis on name brands. We're wearing so and so 0:08:49.040 --> 0:08:52.840 designer shoes and sow and so sunglasses, and carrying a 0:08:52.880 --> 0:08:55.840 sow and so perse, driving a SO and so card, 0:08:56.200 --> 0:08:58.800 talking on a SO and so cell phone. If you're 0:08:58.840 --> 0:09:02.400 really cool, you got on and SO underwear, you can 0:09:02.440 --> 0:09:07.320 feel good about yourself. Sometimes we have so many other 0:09:07.440 --> 0:09:12.760 names on us we don't know our own name. We're 0:09:12.840 --> 0:09:17.319 counting on all the name brands, all the outside labels 0:09:17.440 --> 0:09:20.920 to make us feel important. Can I tell you your name 0:09:21.360 --> 0:09:26.599 is more important than all those names combine. No disrespect 0:09:26.640 --> 0:09:29.800 to them, But the difference between you and a name 0:09:29.880 --> 0:09:34.280 brand is God breathed his life into you. You're a son, 0:09:34.559 --> 0:09:37.640 you're a daughter of the most High God. And there's 0:09:37.640 --> 0:09:40.920 nothing wrong with owning it, driving it. We're in it, 0:09:41.360 --> 0:09:44.160 But don't let it be the reason you feel good 0:09:44.160 --> 0:09:50.679 about who you are. Because what's hot today, what's the latest, greatest. 0:09:50.880 --> 0:09:53.920 In a few years, it'll be outdated. If you live 0:09:54.040 --> 0:09:57.319 possession based, you have to run from name to name, 0:09:57.480 --> 0:10:00.600 position to position, friend to friend. That's go where you are. 0:10:01.160 --> 0:10:04.760 Why don't you relax. You can't get any more valuable. 0:10:05.280 --> 0:10:08.560 You can buy more clothes, get more friends. That doesn't 0:10:08.640 --> 0:10:14.679 change your value. Whether you're wearing Gucci or Goodwill, whether 0:10:14.720 --> 0:10:18.760 it's Calvin Klein or Fruit of the Loom, your value 0:10:18.880 --> 0:10:22.480 never changes. You're clapping because you wear Fruit of the Loom. 0:10:22.600 --> 0:10:26.240 Like me. I went to the sporting goods store the 0:10:26.280 --> 0:10:29.200 other day to buy some new T shirts to work 0:10:29.240 --> 0:10:32.559 out in, and there were probably ten racks of shirts. 0:10:32.880 --> 0:10:37.200 Practically everyone had the manufacturer's name on the front in 0:10:37.360 --> 0:10:40.640 big bold letters. I thought to myself, you want me 0:10:40.720 --> 0:10:43.280 to buy your shirt and then go around as a 0:10:43.320 --> 0:10:46.959 billboard for you no offense, But I don't want to 0:10:47.000 --> 0:10:50.160 wear your name. I like my own name. Do you 0:10:50.320 --> 0:10:54.319 need somebody else's name to make you feel good about yourself? 0:10:54.920 --> 0:10:57.800 Are you trying to prove your worth, your value by 0:10:57.800 --> 0:11:01.080 who you know, what you wear, what you drive? Or 0:11:01.200 --> 0:11:05.600 can you say, like Jesus, I don't have to have popularity, possessions, 0:11:05.720 --> 0:11:09.240 or performance to feel good about myself. I am secure 0:11:09.360 --> 0:11:11.800 in who I am. I know who God made me 0:11:11.880 --> 0:11:16.760 to be. When Jesus was riding into town on Palm Sunday, 0:11:17.080 --> 0:11:21.160 the people laid down branches as he passed by. They celebrated, 0:11:21.200 --> 0:11:26.280 shouting Hosanna from the young to the old, waving, cheering. 0:11:26.480 --> 0:11:29.280 They were so excited to see him. He received a 0:11:29.360 --> 0:11:33.840 heroes welcome. But a few days later those same people, 0:11:34.320 --> 0:11:39.240 instead of shouting Hosanna, they were shouting crucifying, we don't 0:11:39.280 --> 0:11:43.240 want him here. When Jesus went to trial and needed 0:11:43.240 --> 0:11:47.360 his closest friends to support him, his disciples, the ones 0:11:47.400 --> 0:11:50.800 he had poured his life into, they weren't anywhere around. 0:11:51.400 --> 0:11:53.480 He asked them to stay up and pray, but they 0:11:53.480 --> 0:11:57.040 were too tired. They fell asleep. If you base your 0:11:57.160 --> 0:12:03.040 value on people's support, how much they approve you, encourage you, 0:12:03.800 --> 0:12:06.880 then if for some reason they stop doing that, you'll 0:12:06.920 --> 0:12:10.559 feel devalued. As long as they're telling you you're great, 0:12:10.760 --> 0:12:14.480 you'll feel great. The problem is if they change their mind, 0:12:15.000 --> 0:12:17.840 they're not telling you that, you're not going to feel great. 0:12:18.640 --> 0:12:22.959 You can't base your value on what people give you. 0:12:23.000 --> 0:12:26.480 People are funny. They'll say you're beautiful one day, and 0:12:26.760 --> 0:12:29.960 I don't care for you the next. Hozanna on Sunday, 0:12:30.280 --> 0:12:34.280 crucify them on Friday. If you don't know who you 0:12:34.360 --> 0:12:38.760 are without them, then if they leave, you'll be lost. 0:12:39.480 --> 0:12:43.079 They'll take you with them. Your identity was caught up 0:12:43.120 --> 0:12:45.560 in who they made you to be. You'll try to 0:12:45.559 --> 0:12:49.200 find somebody else to tell you who you are. You 0:12:49.240 --> 0:12:52.520 don't need people to tell you who you are. People 0:12:52.640 --> 0:12:56.640 will let you down, people will get jealous, people have 0:12:56.720 --> 0:13:00.880 their own issues. Let your heavenly father tell you who 0:13:00.920 --> 0:13:06.520 you are. Get your value, your self worth, your approval 0:13:06.720 --> 0:13:11.120 from him. He says you're a masterpiece. He says you're 0:13:11.160 --> 0:13:15.160 want of a kind, a prized possession. Somebody may have 0:13:15.240 --> 0:13:18.960 told you the opposite. You're not talented, you're not attractive, 0:13:19.120 --> 0:13:22.160 you don't have a good personality. Let that go in 0:13:22.280 --> 0:13:27.480 one ear and out the other. They don't determine your value. 0:13:27.640 --> 0:13:31.160 What they say or do doesn't make you any less 0:13:31.280 --> 0:13:35.760 a masterpiece. Quit letting how people treat you make you 0:13:35.880 --> 0:13:40.840 feel inferior. They don't control your destiny. They didn't breathe 0:13:40.880 --> 0:13:43.880 life into you. They didn't call you, they didn't anoint you, 0:13:43.920 --> 0:13:47.800 they didn't approve you. Your value came from your creator, 0:13:48.160 --> 0:13:52.280 from the God who spoke worlds into existence. The good 0:13:52.320 --> 0:13:56.000 news is they can't change your value, and you can't 0:13:56.120 --> 0:13:59.520 change it. God put it in you before you showed up. 0:14:00.320 --> 0:14:03.760 You don't need their approval, You don't need their encouragement. 0:14:04.080 --> 0:14:08.160 They don't have to validate you. It's good when it happens, 0:14:08.480 --> 0:14:11.679 but if you're depending on it to feel secure, then 0:14:11.679 --> 0:14:14.400 if they don't do it, you're going to feel inferior. 0:14:15.040 --> 0:14:19.280 Don't give away your power. Don't put your identity, your 0:14:19.400 --> 0:14:24.360 value into somebody else's hands. Even good people can't give 0:14:24.400 --> 0:14:27.880 you everything you need. Somebody that loves you very much, 0:14:28.120 --> 0:14:32.840 They cannot keep you approved, validated, feeling secured. You have 0:14:32.920 --> 0:14:36.920 to go to your heavenly father. And sometimes we're putting 0:14:36.920 --> 0:14:40.480 pressure on people to keep us fixed, keep us validated. 0:14:41.080 --> 0:14:44.400 Let them off the hook. They're not your savior. You 0:14:44.480 --> 0:14:47.520 already have a savior. He's on the throne. Go to 0:14:47.640 --> 0:14:51.760 him and not the people. The problem with trying to 0:14:51.800 --> 0:14:55.480 get this from people is people have issues. People are 0:14:55.480 --> 0:15:01.640 dealing with insecurities, fears, hurts, wounds, presentes, function. They don't 0:15:01.680 --> 0:15:05.720 know any better. That's normal to them. Messed up people 0:15:05.840 --> 0:15:09.480 can mess you up if you that's not profound, but 0:15:09.520 --> 0:15:12.960 it's good, isn't it. If you base your value on 0:15:13.040 --> 0:15:16.920 what they're giving you, you can end up dysfunctional. I 0:15:16.960 --> 0:15:19.560 talked to a lady recently that had a very bad 0:15:19.680 --> 0:15:24.080 childhood neglect abuse. She had just gone through her second divorce. 0:15:24.600 --> 0:15:27.920 Her ex husband told her that she didn't deserve to 0:15:27.960 --> 0:15:30.680 be loved, and I could tell that she believed it 0:15:30.960 --> 0:15:34.280 because she was down on herself, no expression on her face. 0:15:35.000 --> 0:15:38.120 I told her what I'm telling you, don't let messed 0:15:38.200 --> 0:15:42.120 up people ruin the rest of your life. If somebody 0:15:42.240 --> 0:15:46.520 hurts you, there's a tendency to internalize it and think 0:15:46.720 --> 0:15:50.000 there's something wrong with me. If I was more attractive, 0:15:50.120 --> 0:15:53.480 he wouldn't have left. If I was smarter, I wouldn't 0:15:53.520 --> 0:15:56.240 have had a bad childhood. No, it has nothing to 0:15:56.280 --> 0:15:59.600 do with you. They're treating you out of their hurts. 0:16:00.240 --> 0:16:05.320 Wounds Hurting people end up hurting other people. Don't let 0:16:05.400 --> 0:16:09.160 what they say define who you are. Don't let what 0:16:09.240 --> 0:16:11.720 you didn't get make you feel like you're the blame. 0:16:12.480 --> 0:16:15.920 They said you don't deserve to be loved. That's a lie. 0:16:16.000 --> 0:16:19.360 They said you're not attractive, another lie. But if you 0:16:19.520 --> 0:16:22.640 base your value on these lines, you won't have any 0:16:22.720 --> 0:16:27.040 kind of self worth. Studies even show that children that 0:16:27.120 --> 0:16:31.960 went through neglect abuse a bad childhood. Very often they 0:16:32.000 --> 0:16:35.040 take the blame on themselves. They think there's something wrong 0:16:35.080 --> 0:16:38.280 with them. This lady did the same thing. She didn't 0:16:38.320 --> 0:16:42.520 think she deserved to be loved. That's the enemy trying 0:16:42.560 --> 0:16:46.560 to steal your sense of value. If somebody did you wrong, 0:16:47.200 --> 0:16:51.200 instead of internalizing it, have you ever thought about maybe 0:16:51.240 --> 0:16:54.840 they were messed up. Maybe they felt so bad about themselves, 0:16:54.920 --> 0:16:57.960 so unlovable, that they tried to project it on you. 0:16:58.760 --> 0:17:00.880 I know a young man that never felt like he 0:17:00.960 --> 0:17:04.359 fit in growing up. There's very little love in his home. 0:17:04.800 --> 0:17:07.679 He never felt approved or celebrated. It was like he 0:17:07.800 --> 0:17:11.160 was a burden. He found out in his early teens 0:17:11.560 --> 0:17:15.760 that his parents always wanted a girl. They were disappointed 0:17:15.880 --> 0:17:19.400 when he was born. Now he's in his twenties, had 0:17:19.440 --> 0:17:24.720 his head down, insecure, feeling unworthy. I told him, your 0:17:24.800 --> 0:17:27.560 parents may have wanted a girl, but the creator of 0:17:27.600 --> 0:17:31.680 the universe wanted a boy. God doesn't make mistakes. You're 0:17:31.720 --> 0:17:36.840 not an accident. He hand piqued you. He chose you 0:17:37.040 --> 0:17:40.520 before you could choose him. Your parents may not have 0:17:40.600 --> 0:17:43.960 known any better, but don't let their lack of approval 0:17:44.600 --> 0:17:48.760 keep you from your destiny. You didn't come from your mother. 0:17:49.119 --> 0:17:52.720 You came through your mother. You came from Oh my God. 0:17:53.960 --> 0:17:56.960 I begin to tell him how he was a masterpiece, 0:17:57.080 --> 0:18:01.360 called chosen, equipped, one of a kind, with seeds of greatness. 0:18:01.720 --> 0:18:05.199 Nobody had ever spoken faith over his life. He lifted 0:18:05.240 --> 0:18:07.440 his head, he put his shoulders back. I could see 0:18:07.480 --> 0:18:11.280 a smile starting to form. When you base your value 0:18:11.720 --> 0:18:14.360 on what people say or do, that's going to push 0:18:14.400 --> 0:18:17.320 you down. But when you base it on what God 0:18:17.359 --> 0:18:20.280 says about you, it's going to lift you up. You're 0:18:20.280 --> 0:18:22.800 going to have a smile on your face. A spring 0:18:22.880 --> 0:18:26.160 in your step. You're not going to be put off 0:18:26.359 --> 0:18:29.240 by what you didn't get by who's not supporting him 0:18:30.080 --> 0:18:34.040 like him. Maybe nobody ever told you what God says 0:18:34.040 --> 0:18:39.000 about you. God says you're amazing. He says he's proud 0:18:39.000 --> 0:18:42.480 of you. He says you're the apple of his eye. 0:18:43.160 --> 0:18:45.840 People may not be celebrating you, but you need to 0:18:45.880 --> 0:18:50.320 know God celebrates you. I've heard it said if God 0:18:50.400 --> 0:18:53.160 had a refrigerator, you a picture would be on it. 0:18:54.040 --> 0:18:56.440 If he had a computer, you'd be on the homepage. 0:18:57.240 --> 0:19:01.199 The scripture says God has your name hard on the 0:19:01.240 --> 0:19:04.600 palm of his hand. He's always thinking about you. You 0:19:04.680 --> 0:19:07.880 may feel like you never really got the approval from 0:19:07.880 --> 0:19:11.160 your parents. From your family, and even now, they don't 0:19:11.240 --> 0:19:14.800 celebrate you, they don't affirm you. But the truth is 0:19:14.960 --> 0:19:19.520 it's not about you. It's about their issues, their insecurities. 0:19:20.200 --> 0:19:23.480 Don't spend your life trying to get something that they 0:19:23.520 --> 0:19:27.200 cannot give. I know people working eighty hours a week 0:19:27.440 --> 0:19:30.800 trying to prove to their parents they're successful, prove to 0:19:30.880 --> 0:19:34.000 their family they're good enough. You have to let it 0:19:34.080 --> 0:19:38.520 go or you'll be frustrated. Turn to your heavenly father, 0:19:39.240 --> 0:19:42.440 get your approval from him. He's smiling down on you. 0:19:42.880 --> 0:19:46.480 He sees you excelling. You don't have to have their 0:19:46.520 --> 0:19:50.160 approval to be happy. God approves you. He's the one 0:19:50.160 --> 0:19:55.280 that matters. In the scripture, David didn't have his father's approval. 0:19:55.800 --> 0:19:58.720 When the prophet Samuel came in to anoint one of 0:19:58.800 --> 0:20:02.800 Jesse's sons, Jesse didn't even bring David in from the 0:20:02.880 --> 0:20:08.160 shepherd's fields. He saw David as being inferior, not talented, 0:20:08.280 --> 0:20:13.159 too young, too small. Sometimes the people closest to you 0:20:13.760 --> 0:20:17.359 can't see the greatness in you. Jesse didn't see a 0:20:17.440 --> 0:20:20.959 king in David. He didn't see a giant killer, a 0:20:20.960 --> 0:20:24.560 strategic leader. He saw a young boy with not much 0:20:24.560 --> 0:20:28.600 to offer. He dismissed him, didn't pay much attention. Your 0:20:28.640 --> 0:20:32.720 family may discount you, they may leave you out. Don't 0:20:32.760 --> 0:20:36.440 take it personally. Just keep being your best, getting your 0:20:36.440 --> 0:20:41.120 approval from your heavenly father. This happened with Jesus. His 0:20:41.160 --> 0:20:44.800 brothers didn't believe in him. They saw him as average. 0:20:45.280 --> 0:20:48.120 What's the big deal, what's all the commotion, It's just Jesus. 0:20:48.760 --> 0:20:51.840 The people that should have supported him the most tried 0:20:51.880 --> 0:20:55.520 to make him feel inferior. The people closest to you 0:20:55.960 --> 0:20:59.560 may not acknowledge your gifts, they may not see your value, 0:21:00.080 --> 0:21:04.159 but God does. David was left out. It wasn't fair. 0:21:04.720 --> 0:21:08.040 But when Samuel looked at the other seven sons, he said, Jesse, 0:21:08.560 --> 0:21:11.280 it's none of these. Do you have any more sons? 0:21:12.359 --> 0:21:15.440 People may leave you out, but God doesn't leave you out. 0:21:16.320 --> 0:21:19.880 If David had to have his family's approval, he would 0:21:19.920 --> 0:21:23.280 have never taken the throne. Quit trying to make people 0:21:23.320 --> 0:21:26.000 before you that are never going to be for you. 0:21:26.560 --> 0:21:30.240 Quit feeling inferior because somebody close to you is not 0:21:30.480 --> 0:21:34.800 celebrating you. If you needed their approval, you would get it. 0:21:35.320 --> 0:21:38.040 If you're not getting it, that means you don't need 0:21:38.080 --> 0:21:43.600 it to become who you were created to be. And 0:21:43.720 --> 0:21:47.880 yes it may be hurtful, but it is not going 0:21:47.920 --> 0:21:51.680 to keep you from your destiny. Sometimes it's God teaching 0:21:51.800 --> 0:21:55.680 us to go to him and not to people. We 0:21:55.760 --> 0:22:00.120 rely too much on what people think. Who believes in us? 0:22:00.160 --> 0:22:03.960 And how come they're not supporting me. David's brothers made 0:22:03.960 --> 0:22:07.720 fun of him, his father discounted him. He was stuck 0:22:07.760 --> 0:22:12.159 out in the shepherd's fields. But instead of complaining feeling inferior, 0:22:12.480 --> 0:22:15.119 he turned to God. He's the one that wrote in 0:22:15.119 --> 0:22:18.760 Psalm twenty seven, if my mother and father forsake me, 0:22:19.160 --> 0:22:22.919 God will adopt me as his own child. And I 0:22:23.000 --> 0:22:26.679 know many of us had great parents that did their best, 0:22:27.240 --> 0:22:30.160 but we all have people that are not giving us 0:22:30.280 --> 0:22:34.240 their approval. They don't acknowledge our gifts, they don't see 0:22:34.240 --> 0:22:38.000 what we have to offer. Don't live frustrated thinking that 0:22:38.040 --> 0:22:40.920 there's something wrong with you trying to prove to them 0:22:40.960 --> 0:22:44.399 who you are, trying to convince them to affirm you. 0:22:45.080 --> 0:22:48.919 Let it go. There's nothing wrong with you. If you 0:22:49.000 --> 0:22:51.399 had to have it, they would give it. Since you 0:22:51.560 --> 0:22:55.440 don't shake it off, keep your head held high, knowing 0:22:55.480 --> 0:22:59.080 that your heavenly father has approved you, accepted you, and 0:22:59.160 --> 0:23:03.359 anointed you. Your value doesn't come from people, It comes 0:23:03.400 --> 0:23:08.199 from your creator. A while back, somebody gave a watch 0:23:08.320 --> 0:23:10.639 to the Ministry. I was out of town at one 0:23:10.680 --> 0:23:12.959 of our events, and a man came up and handed 0:23:13.000 --> 0:23:15.960 me this nice box. I opened it. It was a 0:23:16.000 --> 0:23:20.640 beautiful watch. It wasn't super fancy, but it was attractive, sporty, 0:23:20.680 --> 0:23:24.199 and of course I thanked him. I'm very grateful. I 0:23:24.240 --> 0:23:26.879 brought it back and put it in my desk drawer. 0:23:27.320 --> 0:23:29.399 A couple of months later, I opened the drawer to 0:23:29.440 --> 0:23:32.240 get something out and there was the watch. I had 0:23:32.280 --> 0:23:35.320 forgotten about it. I looked at it again and I 0:23:35.359 --> 0:23:38.600 thought it cost a couple hundred dollars. I didn't notice 0:23:38.640 --> 0:23:42.120 the name brand, but for some reason, I googled it. 0:23:42.680 --> 0:23:46.119 When I did, I nearly passed out. The exact watch 0:23:46.200 --> 0:23:50.160 came up. It was worth over ten thousand dollars. It's 0:23:50.200 --> 0:23:55.040 from a very famous, prestigious watchmaker. It looked like to 0:23:55.119 --> 0:23:58.240 me a lot of other watches that I'd seen that 0:23:58.359 --> 0:24:03.480 cost several hundred dollars. But because of the manufacturer, this 0:24:03.600 --> 0:24:07.320 watch was extremely valuable. You could put it side by 0:24:07.400 --> 0:24:11.359 side and you wouldn't see much difference. Look average, ordinary 0:24:11.920 --> 0:24:15.840 people had copied it. There were knockoffs. On the surface, 0:24:15.920 --> 0:24:19.600 it seemed the same, but what gave it its value 0:24:19.840 --> 0:24:24.160 was who made it. Sometimes we don't realize who we are. 0:24:24.920 --> 0:24:29.000 You may feel average, ordinary, like nothing stands out, But 0:24:29.160 --> 0:24:33.200 because of your maker, there's something about you that makes 0:24:33.240 --> 0:24:38.879 you extremely valuable. You're not a copy, you're not a knockoff. 0:24:39.560 --> 0:24:44.520 You're an original. The creator of the universe is your manufacturer. 0:24:45.200 --> 0:24:48.440 You can't get any more prestigious than that. But if 0:24:48.440 --> 0:24:51.159 you don't know who you are like I did with 0:24:51.200 --> 0:24:55.120 the watch, you'll discount yourself. They got all, man, I'm ordinary, 0:24:55.560 --> 0:24:58.800 nothing much to offer, nothing special about me. You need 0:24:58.840 --> 0:25:02.879 to google your manuf. You have the fingerprints of God 0:25:03.040 --> 0:25:07.919 all over you. Some one nine says God, I praise 0:25:08.000 --> 0:25:11.480 you because you have made me in an amazing way. 0:25:12.040 --> 0:25:15.439 What you have done is wonderful. If you're going to 0:25:15.480 --> 0:25:19.480 recognize your value, you have to see yourself as amazing, 0:25:20.040 --> 0:25:23.840 as wonderful, not because of who you are, but because 0:25:24.080 --> 0:25:27.120 of who made you. Now life will try to make 0:25:27.160 --> 0:25:33.080 you feel like you're anything but amazing. Disappointments, betrayals, rejection 0:25:33.680 --> 0:25:36.560 will try to steal your sense of value. But all 0:25:36.640 --> 0:25:41.080 through the day, despite what thoughts are telling you, despite 0:25:41.160 --> 0:25:44.600 who left you out, you need to remind yourself. I 0:25:44.640 --> 0:25:49.920 am amazing, I am a masterpiece. I have been wonderfully made. 0:25:50.160 --> 0:25:54.399 Don't discount what God has created. Don't go around feeling 0:25:54.520 --> 0:25:59.119 ordinary when in fact you're extraordinary. People may try to 0:25:59.119 --> 0:26:02.760 make you feel like David's father, you don't have much 0:26:02.800 --> 0:26:06.320 to offer. Are you going to believe what people say 0:26:06.359 --> 0:26:10.720 about you? Or believe what God says about you? God 0:26:10.800 --> 0:26:15.240 says you're amazing? Have you ever said that to yourself? 0:26:15.920 --> 0:26:19.480 It has to start on the inside. I read where 0:26:19.880 --> 0:26:23.280 Tom Brady's jersey that he wore during the Super Bowl 0:26:23.560 --> 0:26:27.639 is worth five hundred thousand dollars. I can go online 0:26:27.960 --> 0:26:32.280 and buy that same jersey for forty nine dollars. What's 0:26:32.320 --> 0:26:36.840 the difference who it belongs to? Same jersey, same size, 0:26:36.960 --> 0:26:40.800 same color, but one belongs to Tom Brady. That makes 0:26:40.800 --> 0:26:45.879 it extremely valuable. The scripture says, you belong to God. 0:26:46.760 --> 0:26:50.960 You may feel average, think you look ordinary, nothing special 0:26:51.000 --> 0:26:55.240 about you, but because of who you belong to, that 0:26:55.359 --> 0:26:59.800 makes you extremely valuable. Now my challenge, don't let people 0:26:59.840 --> 0:27:03.480 do scount you. Don't let your own thoughts push you down, 0:27:04.119 --> 0:27:07.960 put your shoulders back. You belong to God. You don't 0:27:07.960 --> 0:27:10.600 have to prove anything. You don't have to try to 0:27:10.640 --> 0:27:15.280 impress people. Just be who you are. Be amazing. If 0:27:15.359 --> 0:27:19.200 you'll do this, I believe and declare every chain that's 0:27:19.240 --> 0:27:25.080 held you back is being broken. You're going to live free, confidence, secure, valuable, 0:27:25.320 --> 0:27:29.160 and become the masterpiece that God created you to be. 0:27:29.560 --> 0:27:32.760 In Jesus' name. If you receive it, can you say it? 0:27:32.880 --> 0:27:33.040 Men? 0:27:33.080 --> 0:27:37.920 Today? I'd like to give you an opportunity to make 0:27:38.040 --> 0:27:41.040 Jesus the lord of your life. Would you pray with me, 0:27:41.760 --> 0:27:47.240 just say, Lord, Jesus, I repent of my sins. Come 0:27:47.280 --> 0:27:52.480 into my heart. I make you my Lord and savior. Friends, 0:27:52.480 --> 0:27:54.920 if you prayed that simple prayer, we believe you got 0:27:54.960 --> 0:27:58.760 born again. Get in a good Bible based church. Keep 0:27:58.800 --> 0:28:02.200 God first place. 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