Seeing Yourself As A Masterpiece

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Love to have you come out 0:02:12.320 --> 0:02:15.600 whenever you can. But thanks for tuning in and thank 0:02:15.639 --> 0:02:17.840 you again for coming out today. And I like to 0:02:17.840 --> 0:02:20.520 get started with something funny and heard about this five 0:02:20.600 --> 0:02:23.920 year old boy named Tommy. Was his grandmother's birthday, and 0:02:24.320 --> 0:02:27.520 after wishing her a happy birthday, he said, grandmother, how 0:02:27.560 --> 0:02:30.800 old are you? She said, Tommy, I'm thirty nine and 0:02:30.960 --> 0:02:34.440 holding he thought about it a moment, said grandmother, how 0:02:34.480 --> 0:02:38.440 old would you be if you let go hold up 0:02:38.440 --> 0:02:41.040 your Bible say it like you mean it. This is 0:02:41.120 --> 0:02:43.960 my Bible. I am what it says I am. I 0:02:44.040 --> 0:02:46.400 have what it says I have. I can do what 0:02:46.480 --> 0:02:49.040 it says I can do. Today I will be taught 0:02:49.120 --> 0:02:52.880 the word of God. I boldly confess my mind is alert, 0:02:53.240 --> 0:02:56.120 my heart is receptive. I will never be the same. 0:02:56.560 --> 0:03:00.600 In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want to talk 0:03:00.639 --> 0:03:05.440 to you today about seeing yourself as a masterpiece. Too 0:03:05.440 --> 0:03:09.280 many people go around feeling wrong on the inside. They 0:03:09.280 --> 0:03:12.160 don't really like who they are. They think if I 0:03:12.240 --> 0:03:15.560 was just a little taller, if I had a better personality, 0:03:16.240 --> 0:03:19.680 if my metabolism was a little faster, or if I 0:03:19.800 --> 0:03:23.960 just looked like her, then I would feel good about myself. Now. 0:03:24.080 --> 0:03:27.360 When God created you, he went to great links to 0:03:27.440 --> 0:03:32.239 make you exactly like he wanted. You didn't accidentally get 0:03:32.280 --> 0:03:35.880 your personality. You didn't just happen to get your height, 0:03:36.440 --> 0:03:40.400 your looks, your skin color, your gifts. God designed you 0:03:40.600 --> 0:03:43.840 on purpose to be the way you are. You have 0:03:43.960 --> 0:03:47.720 what you need to fulfill your destiny. If you needed 0:03:47.720 --> 0:03:50.680 to be taller, God would have made you taller. If 0:03:50.720 --> 0:03:53.320 you needed to be a different nationality, God would have 0:03:53.320 --> 0:03:56.120 made you that way. If you needed to look like 0:03:56.280 --> 0:03:59.240 her instead of you, you would have looked like her. 0:03:59.800 --> 0:04:02.520 You've got to be confident in who God made you 0:04:02.600 --> 0:04:07.520 to be. And Ephesians two ten says we are God's masterpiece. 0:04:08.240 --> 0:04:12.160 That means you are not ordinary. You didn't come off 0:04:12.200 --> 0:04:16.200 an assembly line. You weren't mass produced. You are one 0:04:16.240 --> 0:04:20.000 of a kind. Nobody in this world has your fingerprints. 0:04:20.360 --> 0:04:23.599 There will never be another you. If you're going to 0:04:23.640 --> 0:04:28.200 reach your highest potential, you have to see yourself as unique, 0:04:28.880 --> 0:04:33.560 as an original, as God's very own masterpiece. When I 0:04:33.640 --> 0:04:36.320 was in my early twenties, I was sitting on the 0:04:36.360 --> 0:04:40.800 beach in India all alone, watching the sun set. It 0:04:40.839 --> 0:04:45.240 was a magnificent scene. The water was so blue as 0:04:45.279 --> 0:04:47.719 far as I could see from the right to the left, 0:04:48.000 --> 0:04:51.719 miles and miles of beach and palm trees. The sun 0:04:51.839 --> 0:04:55.640 was huge on the horizon just about to set. As 0:04:55.680 --> 0:05:00.479 I sat there, reflecting, thinking about my life, heard God 0:05:00.600 --> 0:05:04.080 ask me something, not out loud, but just an impression 0:05:04.120 --> 0:05:06.760 down in here. He said, Joel, you think this is 0:05:06.800 --> 0:05:10.520 a beautiful picture, do you? I said, yes, God, I 0:05:10.560 --> 0:05:13.800 think this is a magnificent picture. He said, well, what 0:05:13.839 --> 0:05:18.120 do you think would be my most prized painting, my 0:05:18.240 --> 0:05:22.640 most incredible creation. I thought about it a moment. I said, God, 0:05:22.640 --> 0:05:25.680 it must be this sunset. This is magnificent. He said no, 0:05:25.760 --> 0:05:28.960 it's not this. Earlier that year i'd been in the 0:05:29.040 --> 0:05:32.360 Rocky Mountains. They were spectacular. I said, God, I bet 0:05:32.400 --> 0:05:35.240 it's the Rocky Mountains. He said no, not that thought. 0:05:35.240 --> 0:05:38.400 What could it be the Solar System, the Milky Way. 0:05:39.120 --> 0:05:43.320 He said no, Joel, my most prized possession, the painting 0:05:43.360 --> 0:05:47.960 that I'm the most proud of, is you. I thought me. 0:05:48.680 --> 0:05:51.640 Couldn't be me. I'm an ordinary I'm just like everybody else. 0:05:51.800 --> 0:05:54.240 He said, no, you don't understand. When I made the 0:05:54.279 --> 0:05:58.239 solar system, the waters, the mountains, I was proud of that. 0:05:58.240 --> 0:06:02.320 That was great. But when I made you, I breathed 0:06:02.360 --> 0:06:05.880 my very life into you. I created you in my 0:06:06.000 --> 0:06:12.120 own image. Friends, you are God's most prized possession. Don't 0:06:12.160 --> 0:06:16.560 go around feeling wrong about yourself. Quit wishing you were taller, 0:06:17.200 --> 0:06:20.960 had a better personality, or looked like somebody else. You've 0:06:21.000 --> 0:06:25.039 been painted by the most incredible painter there could ever be. 0:06:25.920 --> 0:06:29.560 When God created you, he stepped back and looked, said 0:06:29.600 --> 0:06:33.520 that was good. Another masterpiece. He stamped his approval on 0:06:33.640 --> 0:06:36.919 you. You don't how on the back of our shirts most 0:06:36.920 --> 0:06:39.719 of the time there's a tag says made in America, 0:06:39.960 --> 0:06:43.120 made in China, made in Mexico. Well, somewhere on you, 0:06:43.200 --> 0:06:47.159 there's a tag that says made by Almighty God. Now 0:06:47.200 --> 0:06:50.680 put your shoulders back, hold your head up high. You 0:06:50.720 --> 0:06:55.880 are extremely valuable. You have royal blood flowing through your veins. 0:06:56.360 --> 0:06:59.960 You are wearing a crown of favor. When those thoughts 0:07:00.120 --> 0:07:02.719 come in the morning telling you everything that you're not, 0:07:03.200 --> 0:07:06.279 you need to remind yourself. I've got the fingerprints of 0:07:06.320 --> 0:07:09.600 God all over me. The way I look, the way 0:07:09.640 --> 0:07:13.480 I smile, my gifts, my personality. I know I am 0:07:13.520 --> 0:07:17.480 not average. I am a masterpiece. That's the thoughts that 0:07:17.560 --> 0:07:20.600 should be playing in our mind all day long, not 0:07:20.960 --> 0:07:25.320 I'm slow, I'm unattractive, I'm just one of the seven 0:07:25.400 --> 0:07:30.480 billion people on earth. No, God did not make anything average. 0:07:30.520 --> 0:07:33.800 If you have breath to breathe, you are a masterpiece. 0:07:34.640 --> 0:07:37.880 Now people may try to make you feel average. Your 0:07:37.920 --> 0:07:41.440 own thoughts may try to convince you that you're ordinary. 0:07:41.640 --> 0:07:44.520 Life will try to push you down and steal your 0:07:44.560 --> 0:07:47.960 sense of value. That's why all through the day you 0:07:48.080 --> 0:07:52.000 have to remind yourself who your painter is. When you 0:07:52.080 --> 0:07:55.400 dwell on the fact that almighty God breathed his life 0:07:55.400 --> 0:08:00.280 into you, he approved you, equipped you, empowered you. Any 0:08:00.320 --> 0:08:04.480 thoughts of low self esteem inferiority, they won't have a chance. 0:08:05.160 --> 0:08:07.800 A few years ago, I was in somebody's home and 0:08:07.840 --> 0:08:10.720 they have all these paintings on the wall, and to me, 0:08:11.160 --> 0:08:14.520 they weren't very impressive. In fact, some of them look 0:08:14.680 --> 0:08:18.440 like they had been painted by a child, very abstract, 0:08:18.880 --> 0:08:23.000 modern paint thrown here and there. But later that evening 0:08:23.440 --> 0:08:26.920 they mentioned how they had paid over a million dollars 0:08:27.120 --> 0:08:30.640 for just one of those paintings. I looked at it again, thought, wow, 0:08:30.680 --> 0:08:35.480 that is beautiful, isn't it. Come to find out it 0:08:35.559 --> 0:08:41.000 was an original Picasso, painted by the famous artist Pablo Picasso. 0:08:41.880 --> 0:08:44.840 What dawned on me that night is it's not so 0:08:45.040 --> 0:08:48.520 much what the painting looks like, it's who the painter is. 0:08:49.320 --> 0:08:53.040 The painting gets its value from its creator. In the 0:08:53.120 --> 0:08:56.360 same way, our value doesn't come because of what we 0:08:56.440 --> 0:08:59.280 look like, or what we do, or who we know. 0:09:00.120 --> 0:09:03.640 Our value comes from the fact that Almighty God is 0:09:03.679 --> 0:09:09.719 our painter. Now, don't criticize what God has painted. Accept yourself. 0:09:10.280 --> 0:09:13.679 Approve yourself. You are not an accident. You have been 0:09:13.760 --> 0:09:18.200 fearfully and wonderfully made. Now, I wonder what would happen 0:09:18.320 --> 0:09:21.679 if all through the day, instead of putting ourselves down, 0:09:22.080 --> 0:09:25.040 instead of dwelling on the negative, we would go around 0:09:25.080 --> 0:09:30.479 thinking I'm a masterpiece, I'm wonderfully made, I'm talented, I'm original, 0:09:30.840 --> 0:09:34.920 I have everything that I need. See, the enemy doesn't 0:09:34.960 --> 0:09:37.920 want you to feel good about yourself. He would love 0:09:37.960 --> 0:09:40.840 for you to go through life listening to the nagging 0:09:40.960 --> 0:09:45.079 voices reminding you of everything that you're not. I dare 0:09:45.160 --> 0:09:47.760 you to get up each day and say, good morning, 0:09:48.040 --> 0:09:52.839 you wonderful thing. You are fearfully and wonderfully made. That's 0:09:52.880 --> 0:09:55.960 what David said. So on one thirty nine, God, I 0:09:56.120 --> 0:10:00.240 praise you because you have made me in an amazing way. 0:10:00.840 --> 0:10:04.880 What you have done is wonderful. How many of us 0:10:05.000 --> 0:10:08.040 will be bold enough to say, like David, I'm amazing, 0:10:08.320 --> 0:10:12.600 I'm a masterpiece. Most people those thoughts never enter into 0:10:12.640 --> 0:10:17.360 their mind. They're too busy putting themselves down, focusing on 0:10:17.400 --> 0:10:22.319 their flaws, comparing themselves to others that they think are better. No, 0:10:22.520 --> 0:10:27.520 your painter, your creator says you're amazing, You're wonderful, You're 0:10:27.520 --> 0:10:30.880 a masterpiece. Now it's up to you to get an 0:10:30.920 --> 0:10:34.800 agreement with God. If you go around focused on your flaws, 0:10:35.360 --> 0:10:38.080 listening to what other people are saying, you can miss 0:10:38.120 --> 0:10:42.120 your destiny. The recording that should be playing in our 0:10:42.160 --> 0:10:46.599 mind all day long is I'm valuable, I'm a masterpiece. 0:10:46.800 --> 0:10:50.080 I'm a child of a most high God. Some of you, 0:10:50.480 --> 0:10:54.320 this is what's holding you back. Your recording is negative. 0:10:54.760 --> 0:10:58.839 There are enough people in life already against you. Don't 0:10:58.840 --> 0:11:04.160 be against yourself. Change your recording, start seeing yourself as 0:11:04.200 --> 0:11:08.040 the masterpiece God created you to be. I read a 0:11:08.080 --> 0:11:12.319 story about this man that died in extreme poverty. At 0:11:12.320 --> 0:11:16.079 one point, he was homeless, living on the streets, barely 0:11:16.120 --> 0:11:19.280 got by in life. After the funeral, some of his 0:11:19.400 --> 0:11:23.359 relatives went to the Rundown apartment and gathered up his belongings. 0:11:23.920 --> 0:11:26.280 He had a painting on the wall. They took it 0:11:26.320 --> 0:11:29.440 down and sold it at a garage cell. The person 0:11:29.480 --> 0:11:32.520 that bought it took the painting to the local art 0:11:32.600 --> 0:11:36.000 gallery to learn more about it. Come to find out 0:11:36.400 --> 0:11:40.040 it was extremely valuable. It had been painted back in 0:11:40.080 --> 0:11:44.520 the eighteen hundreds by famous artist. It ended up selling 0:11:44.600 --> 0:11:48.960 at an auction for over three million dollars. That man 0:11:49.120 --> 0:11:53.240 lived his whole life in poverty because he didn't realize 0:11:53.320 --> 0:11:56.920 what he had. In the same way, every one of 0:11:56.960 --> 0:12:00.800 you has been painted by the most famous artists there 0:12:00.800 --> 0:12:04.720 could ever be. But if you don't understand your value, 0:12:05.160 --> 0:12:07.200 you go around thinking, Wow, I'm just kind of average. 0:12:07.760 --> 0:12:10.080 I'm not that talented, and I've made a lot of 0:12:10.160 --> 0:12:14.120 mistakes in life. If you let that negative recording play, 0:12:15.040 --> 0:12:18.600 just like this man, even though you have everything you need, 0:12:18.920 --> 0:12:22.679 even though you're full of potential, you'll never tap into it. 0:12:23.600 --> 0:12:27.280 That's why every morning you need to remind yourself, I 0:12:27.320 --> 0:12:30.680 am not average, I am not ordinary. I have the 0:12:30.760 --> 0:12:34.480 fingerprints of God all over me. I am a masterpiece. 0:12:35.400 --> 0:12:38.720 There was an article in a medical magazine. It talked 0:12:38.760 --> 0:12:44.040 about how these researchers scientifically calculated how much money the 0:12:44.120 --> 0:12:47.480 human body is worth. They added up the cost of 0:12:47.559 --> 0:12:53.600 all the enzymes, cells, tissue, organs, hormones, everything contained in 0:12:53.600 --> 0:12:58.320 the body. They concluded that an average sized person is 0:12:58.400 --> 0:13:02.560 worth six million dollars. You've heard of the six million 0:13:02.640 --> 0:13:06.160 dollar man. Today, I am looking at six million dollar people. 0:13:06.600 --> 0:13:09.160 You could put your shoulders back, you can have a 0:13:09.280 --> 0:13:13.720 spring in your step. Your heavenly father has invested six 0:13:13.840 --> 0:13:17.000 million dollars into you. The good news is you didn't 0:13:17.000 --> 0:13:20.640 even have to pay taxes on it. Think of this, 0:13:21.200 --> 0:13:24.920 six million dollars is an average sized person. Some of 0:13:24.960 --> 0:13:28.959 you are worth nine million dollars. That's the way to 0:13:29.000 --> 0:13:31.240 look at it. You're not overweight, You're just more valuable. 0:13:33.080 --> 0:13:37.119 Jesus said to love your neighbor as you love yourself. 0:13:37.960 --> 0:13:41.600 If you don't love yourself in a healthy way, you 0:13:41.679 --> 0:13:44.120 will never be able to love others in the way 0:13:44.160 --> 0:13:47.080 that you should. And this is why some people don't 0:13:47.080 --> 0:13:51.000 have good relationships. If you don't get along with yourself, 0:13:51.440 --> 0:13:56.760 you'll never get along with others. We all have weaknesses, shortcomings, 0:13:56.800 --> 0:13:59.920 things that we wish were different, But God never does 0:14:00.000 --> 0:14:04.240 designed us to go through life being against ourselves. The 0:14:04.320 --> 0:14:07.920 opinion you have of yourself is the most important opinion 0:14:07.960 --> 0:14:11.240 that you have. If you see yourself as less than, 0:14:11.920 --> 0:14:15.599 not talented, not valuable, then you will become exactly that. 0:14:16.559 --> 0:14:20.560 You are constantly conveying what you feel on the inside, 0:14:21.320 --> 0:14:27.000 even subconsciously, you're sending messages out. If you feel unattractive 0:14:27.080 --> 0:14:30.120 on the inside, you can be the most beautiful person 0:14:30.160 --> 0:14:34.520 in the world, but you will convey feelings of unattractiveness. 0:14:34.920 --> 0:14:38.400 That's going to push people away. The problem is on 0:14:38.440 --> 0:14:43.120 the inside you carry yourself the way you see yourself. 0:14:43.960 --> 0:14:47.080 I've seen just the opposite happen. A few years ago. 0:14:47.400 --> 0:14:51.120 I met a young lady, and on the surface, in 0:14:51.200 --> 0:14:54.000 the natural and I say this very respectfully, she wasn't 0:14:54.040 --> 0:14:57.560 necessarily attractive, she didn't have a lot of natural beauty, 0:14:57.880 --> 0:15:00.800 But can I tell you, on the inside she had 0:15:00.800 --> 0:15:03.960 it going on. She knew she was made in the 0:15:04.000 --> 0:15:07.840 image of Almighty God. She knew she was crowned with favor. 0:15:08.480 --> 0:15:13.080 She may have looked ordinary, but she thought extraordinary. She 0:15:13.280 --> 0:15:17.640 carried herself like a queen. She walked like she was royalty, 0:15:18.200 --> 0:15:21.680 She smiled like she was Miss America. She dressed like 0:15:21.760 --> 0:15:24.640 she was headed for the runway. She may have bought 0:15:24.640 --> 0:15:27.280 it at a second hand store, but she wore it 0:15:27.320 --> 0:15:30.120 like it was brand new from sax fifth. All I 0:15:30.120 --> 0:15:34.600 could say was, you go girl? What was the difference? 0:15:35.120 --> 0:15:41.040 On the inside, she sees herself beautiful, strong, talented, valuable. 0:15:41.600 --> 0:15:44.720 What's on the inside will eventually show up on the 0:15:44.720 --> 0:15:50.640 outside because she sees herself as a masterpiece. She exudes strength, 0:15:51.200 --> 0:15:55.800 beauty confidence. Here's the key. People see you the way 0:15:55.840 --> 0:16:00.680 you see yourself. If you see yourself strong, talented, valuable 0:16:00.720 --> 0:16:03.120 with it, that's the way other people will see you. 0:16:03.440 --> 0:16:06.680 That's the messages you're sending out. But if you see 0:16:06.720 --> 0:16:10.720 yourself as less than, not talented, not valuable, that's the 0:16:10.760 --> 0:16:13.960 way others will see you, some of you. If you 0:16:14.000 --> 0:16:17.520 would change the opinion you have of yourself, if you 0:16:17.560 --> 0:16:20.560 had quit focusing on your flaws and everything you wish 0:16:20.760 --> 0:16:24.280 was different, if you'd quit comparing yourself to somebody else 0:16:24.280 --> 0:16:28.000 that you think is better, and start loving yourself in 0:16:28.040 --> 0:16:31.240 a healthy way, being proud of who God made you 0:16:31.320 --> 0:16:34.480 to be. Then as you send out these different messages, 0:16:34.640 --> 0:16:38.560 it's going to bring new opportunities, new relationships, new levels 0:16:38.600 --> 0:16:42.680 of God's favor. This is what the Israelites did. When 0:16:42.720 --> 0:16:45.320 ten of the spies came back from the Promised Land. 0:16:45.920 --> 0:16:49.840 They saw how huge their opponents were. They said to Moses, 0:16:50.440 --> 0:16:54.320 we were in our own sites as grasshoppers, and so 0:16:54.560 --> 0:16:58.760 we were in their sights. Notice they didn't say, Moses, 0:16:58.920 --> 0:17:03.000 those people in so us they called us grasshoppers. No, 0:17:03.160 --> 0:17:06.640 they went in with a grasshopper mentality. They said, we 0:17:06.640 --> 0:17:10.960 were in our own sits as grasshoppers. That's what they conveyed. 0:17:11.440 --> 0:17:14.800 Here's the principle at work, and so we were in 0:17:14.880 --> 0:17:18.840 their sights. In other words, they saw us the way 0:17:18.880 --> 0:17:23.560 we saw ourselves. If you put off feelings of inferiority, 0:17:24.040 --> 0:17:27.639 people will treat you inferior. You may feel like you 0:17:27.720 --> 0:17:31.360 have a disadvantage, like the Israelites. You don't have the size, 0:17:31.600 --> 0:17:35.520 the talent, the education. That's all right. All that matters 0:17:35.840 --> 0:17:39.600 is Almighty God breeded his life into you. He created 0:17:39.640 --> 0:17:43.480 you as a person of destiny. He put seeds of 0:17:43.640 --> 0:17:47.919 greatness on the inside. Now do your part. Start seeing 0:17:47.960 --> 0:17:52.080 yourself as the masterpiece God created you to be. The 0:17:52.119 --> 0:17:55.199 scripture talks about how God has made us to be 0:17:55.400 --> 0:17:59.600 kings and priests unto him, men, you need to start 0:17:59.680 --> 0:18:04.480 seeing yourself as a king. Women, start seeing yourself as 0:18:04.480 --> 0:18:10.159 a queen. Start carrying yourself like royalty, not in arrogance, 0:18:10.600 --> 0:18:14.400 thinking that you're better than others. I'm talking about inhumility. 0:18:14.840 --> 0:18:18.199 Be proud of who God made you to be. You 0:18:18.280 --> 0:18:21.040 are not better than anyone else. But can I tell 0:18:21.119 --> 0:18:25.160 you are not less than anyone else. Doesn't matter how 0:18:25.200 --> 0:18:29.119 many degrees they have, doesn't matter how important of a 0:18:29.160 --> 0:18:33.879 family they come from. Now understand, your father created the 0:18:33.880 --> 0:18:38.040 whole universe. When he breathed his life into you, sent 0:18:38.160 --> 0:18:41.159 you to planet Earth. You didn't come as ordinary, you 0:18:41.200 --> 0:18:44.520 didn't come as average. He put a crown of honor 0:18:44.640 --> 0:18:49.879 on your head. Now start thinking like royalty, talking like royalty, 0:18:50.320 --> 0:18:54.800 dressing like royalty, walking like royalty, acting like royalty. I 0:18:54.880 --> 0:18:57.399 was in England a few years ago and they were 0:18:57.440 --> 0:19:01.040 having a ceremony to honor the Queen. When the Queen 0:19:01.119 --> 0:19:05.160 walked in the room, you could feel the strength, the confidence, 0:19:05.280 --> 0:19:09.959 the dignity. She had her head held high, pleasant smile 0:19:10.119 --> 0:19:13.440 on her face. She waved at everyone like they were 0:19:13.480 --> 0:19:18.120 her best friend. What's interesting is there were all kinds 0:19:18.160 --> 0:19:21.960 of important people in that room. There were presidents of 0:19:22.000 --> 0:19:28.879 other nations, world renowned entertainers, famous athletes, scientists, some of 0:19:28.920 --> 0:19:32.679 the brightest, most talented people in the world. And I 0:19:32.720 --> 0:19:36.480 say this respectfully, but the Queen was not the most 0:19:36.480 --> 0:19:39.840 beautiful person in the room. There were other ladies that 0:19:39.880 --> 0:19:43.680 were younger, much more beautiful. But by the way the 0:19:43.800 --> 0:19:46.879 Queen carried herself, you would have thought she was the 0:19:46.960 --> 0:19:51.920 cat's meow. She had it going on, strong confidence secure. 0:19:52.800 --> 0:19:56.240 The Queen wasn't the wealthiest woman in the room. She 0:19:56.440 --> 0:20:00.480 wasn't the fittest nor the most educated. A lot of 0:20:00.480 --> 0:20:03.520 people would have been intimidated walking into that room, but 0:20:03.680 --> 0:20:06.719 not her. She walked in like she owned the place. 0:20:07.280 --> 0:20:11.240 Why she knows who she is. She's the Queen. She 0:20:11.440 --> 0:20:15.640 comes from a long line of royalty. It's been ingrained 0:20:15.720 --> 0:20:19.040 in her thinking. I'm not average, I'm not ordinary. I 0:20:19.080 --> 0:20:22.680 am one of a kind, no doubt. Some mornings when 0:20:22.680 --> 0:20:25.760 the Queen wakes up, the same thoughts come to her 0:20:25.800 --> 0:20:28.680 mind that come to all of us. You're not as 0:20:28.680 --> 0:20:32.040 beautiful as your sister, you're not as talented as your brother, 0:20:32.520 --> 0:20:36.440 you're not as smart as your coworker. Be intimidated your inferior. 0:20:37.320 --> 0:20:39.440 The Queen lets that go in one ear and out 0:20:39.440 --> 0:20:42.679 the other. She thinks, what are you talking about? Doesn't 0:20:42.720 --> 0:20:46.280 matter how I compare to others. I'm the Queen. I've 0:20:46.320 --> 0:20:51.119 got royalty in my blood, in my dna is, generations 0:20:51.160 --> 0:20:56.160 of influence, honor, prestige. If you and I could ever 0:20:56.280 --> 0:21:00.280 just start seeing ourselves as the kings the Queen means 0:21:00.320 --> 0:21:04.000 God made us to be, we would never be intimidated again. 0:21:05.000 --> 0:21:07.560 You don't have to be the most talented to feel 0:21:07.560 --> 0:21:11.240 good about yourself. You don't have to have the most education, 0:21:11.840 --> 0:21:17.280 the most success. When you understand your heavenly Father breths 0:21:17.359 --> 0:21:20.879 his life into you, you too, come from a long 0:21:21.000 --> 0:21:26.040 line of royalty. Instead of being intimidated insecure by someone 0:21:26.080 --> 0:21:28.720 that you think is more important, you can do like 0:21:28.760 --> 0:21:32.600 the Queen. Just be at ease, Be kind, be confident, 0:21:32.720 --> 0:21:36.720 be friendly, knowing that you are one of a kind. Ladies, 0:21:36.920 --> 0:21:39.439 you may not be the most beautiful person, but be 0:21:39.600 --> 0:21:43.159 confident you're the Queen. Men, you may not be the 0:21:43.200 --> 0:21:47.000 most successful, but stand up tall. You're the king, not 0:21:47.119 --> 0:21:51.120 crowned by people, but crowned by Almighty God. A lot 0:21:51.119 --> 0:21:53.800 of times we think, well, Joel, I can't feel good 0:21:53.840 --> 0:21:57.600 about myself. I've got this addiction. I struggle with a 0:21:57.640 --> 0:22:00.720 bad temper. I've made a lot of misias in life. 0:22:00.760 --> 0:22:04.200 I sure don't feel like a masterpiece. Here's the key. 0:22:04.720 --> 0:22:09.160 Your value is not based on your performance. You don't 0:22:09.200 --> 0:22:12.160 have to do enough good and then maybe God will 0:22:12.160 --> 0:22:17.200 approve you. God has already approved you. When Jesus was 0:22:17.280 --> 0:22:21.439 being baptized by John in the Jordan River, he hadn't 0:22:21.480 --> 0:22:26.160 started his ministry yet. He had never opened one blind eye, 0:22:26.200 --> 0:22:29.520 never raised the dead, never turned water into wine. He 0:22:29.600 --> 0:22:33.280 had not performed one miracle. But a voice boomed out 0:22:33.280 --> 0:22:37.720 of the heavens, and God said, this is my beloved son, 0:22:38.200 --> 0:22:42.480 in whom I am well pleased. His father was pleased 0:22:42.480 --> 0:22:46.840 with him because of who he was, and not because 0:22:46.880 --> 0:22:50.760 of anything he had or had not done. We think, well, 0:22:50.880 --> 0:22:53.200 if I could break this addiction, then I'd feel good 0:22:53.200 --> 0:22:56.639 about myself. If I could read my Bible more, if 0:22:56.640 --> 0:22:59.440 I'd bite my tongue and not argue so much, then 0:22:59.480 --> 0:23:02.800 maybe I and be against myself. Now, you've got to 0:23:02.880 --> 0:23:06.920 learn to accept yourself while you're in the process of changing. 0:23:07.760 --> 0:23:10.880 We all have areas we need to improve, but we're 0:23:10.880 --> 0:23:14.040 not supposed to go around down on ourselves because we 0:23:14.119 --> 0:23:18.480 haven't arrived. When you're against yourself, it doesn't help you 0:23:18.560 --> 0:23:21.760 to do better, it makes you do worse. You may 0:23:21.800 --> 0:23:24.960 have a bad habit you know you need to overcome. 0:23:25.280 --> 0:23:29.200 But if you go around guilty, condemned, thinking about all 0:23:29.240 --> 0:23:32.040 the times you've failed, the times you've blown it, that 0:23:32.160 --> 0:23:34.960 will not motivate you to go forward. That's going to 0:23:35.000 --> 0:23:37.720 cause you to do worse. You've got to shake off 0:23:37.760 --> 0:23:41.679 the guilt, shake off the condemnation. You may not be 0:23:41.760 --> 0:23:43.960 where you want to be, but you can look back 0:23:44.040 --> 0:23:45.879 and thank God. You're not where you used to be. 0:23:46.280 --> 0:23:50.840 You're growing, you're making progress. Now do yourself a big 0:23:50.880 --> 0:23:55.760 favor and quit listening to the accusing voices. That's the 0:23:55.960 --> 0:23:59.800 enemy trying to convince you to be against yourself. He 0:24:00.160 --> 0:24:03.640 knows if you don't like yourself, you will never become 0:24:03.840 --> 0:24:08.120 what God created you to be. Genesis chapter one. God 0:24:08.160 --> 0:24:11.359 had just created the heavens, the earth, the sea, the animals, 0:24:11.800 --> 0:24:16.320 and Adam and Eve. Verse thirty one says God looked 0:24:16.359 --> 0:24:19.919 over all that he had made and saw how it 0:24:20.080 --> 0:24:24.439 was excellent in every way. When God looks at you, 0:24:24.640 --> 0:24:29.119 he says, you are excellent in every way. Well, not me, 0:24:29.240 --> 0:24:33.120 Joel I've got these bad habits, I've got some shortcomings. 0:24:33.119 --> 0:24:35.760 I've made some mistakes in the past. No, get out 0:24:35.760 --> 0:24:39.560 of that defeated mentality. You may not be perfect, but 0:24:39.680 --> 0:24:43.880 God's not basing your value on your performance. He's looking 0:24:43.920 --> 0:24:46.919 at your heart. He's looking at the fact that you're trying. 0:24:47.400 --> 0:24:49.640 You wouldn't be here if you didn't have a heart 0:24:49.680 --> 0:24:53.280 to please God. Now, quit being down on yourself, quit 0:24:53.359 --> 0:24:57.959 living condemned, and dare to believe you are excellent in 0:24:58.119 --> 0:25:02.320 every wayitude should be. Yes, I may make some mistakes, 0:25:02.600 --> 0:25:05.520 i may have some flaws and weaknesses, but I am 0:25:05.600 --> 0:25:08.960 not going to live my life guilty, condemned. I know 0:25:09.400 --> 0:25:13.720 God has already approved me. I am excellent in every way. 0:25:13.960 --> 0:25:18.359 I am his masterpiece. If you're going to overcome in 0:25:18.440 --> 0:25:23.679 those areas, you have to not only stay positive toward yourself, 0:25:24.359 --> 0:25:28.080 but be bold enough to celebrate who God made you 0:25:28.119 --> 0:25:32.399 to be. Be proud of who you are. I know people, 0:25:32.600 --> 0:25:37.600 they're good at celebrating others. They'll compliment their friends. They'll 0:25:37.600 --> 0:25:40.760 brag on a cousin. You got to see my neighbor, 0:25:40.800 --> 0:25:43.720 he's an awesome football player. You got to meet my sister. 0:25:43.800 --> 0:25:47.760 She is so beautiful, and that's good. We should celebrate others, 0:25:48.280 --> 0:25:52.840 but make sure you celebrate yourself. You are smart, you 0:25:52.880 --> 0:25:58.520 are talented, you are beautiful. There is something special about you. 0:25:58.520 --> 0:26:02.520 You can't get so caught up in celebrating others, putting 0:26:02.520 --> 0:26:05.680 them on this high pedestal to where you think they 0:26:05.720 --> 0:26:09.280 are so great and I'm so average. She is so 0:26:09.480 --> 0:26:13.359 beautiful and I am so plain. No, they may have 0:26:13.520 --> 0:26:17.320 more natural beauty, more talent in some area, but let 0:26:17.320 --> 0:26:20.879 me tell you, God didn't leave anybody out. You have 0:26:21.040 --> 0:26:23.720 something that they don't have. You're good at something that 0:26:23.760 --> 0:26:26.640 they're not good at. And it's fine to celebrate them 0:26:26.800 --> 0:26:29.800 and say, wow, look how great they are, as long 0:26:29.840 --> 0:26:32.919 as you follow it up by saying internally, and you 0:26:33.000 --> 0:26:37.280 know what, I'm great too, I'm smart too, I'm talented too. 0:26:37.560 --> 0:26:39.919 It's like this man I heard about. He was the 0:26:39.960 --> 0:26:43.160 mayor of a small town. He was in a parade, 0:26:43.760 --> 0:26:47.159 riding in a float down main street with his wife 0:26:47.200 --> 0:26:49.720 next to him. While he was waving at all the 0:26:49.720 --> 0:26:53.919 different people, he spotted his wife's former boyfriend in the crowd. 0:26:54.640 --> 0:26:58.040 He owned and ran the local gas station. He whispered 0:26:58.040 --> 0:27:00.520 to his wife, aren't you glad you didn't marry him, 0:27:00.680 --> 0:27:04.040 you'd be working at a gas station. She whispered back. No, 0:27:04.400 --> 0:27:09.280 if i'd have married him, he'd be the mayor. See, 0:27:09.280 --> 0:27:13.199 you got to know who you are. God breathed his 0:27:13.320 --> 0:27:17.320 life into you. You have royalty in your blood. You 0:27:17.359 --> 0:27:21.080 are excellent in every way. Now put your shoulders back, 0:27:21.480 --> 0:27:25.399 hold your head up high, start carrying yourself like royalty. 0:27:25.640 --> 0:27:28.679 You are not average, You are not ordinary. You are 0:27:28.720 --> 0:27:33.360 a masterpiece. Get up every morning and remind yourself who 0:27:33.400 --> 0:27:36.960 your painter is. Your value doesn't come because of who 0:27:37.000 --> 0:27:40.760 you are, It comes because of who you are. Remember, 0:27:41.119 --> 0:27:45.800 the most important opinion you have is the opinion of yourself. 0:27:46.440 --> 0:27:49.480 How you see yourself is how other people are going 0:27:49.520 --> 0:27:53.080 to see you. I'm asking you today to see yourself 0:27:53.160 --> 0:27:56.960 as a king, see yourself as a queen, not arrogantly, 0:27:57.359 --> 0:28:00.440 but in humility. Now, some of you need to change 0:28:00.480 --> 0:28:03.560 the recording that's playing in your mind from I'm slow, 0:28:04.000 --> 0:28:08.720 I'm unattractive, I'm nothing special about me. No dare to say, 0:28:08.840 --> 0:28:13.040 like David, I'm amazing, I'm a masterpiece. I'm talented. I 0:28:13.080 --> 0:28:16.000 am one of a kind. If you will see yourself 0:28:16.040 --> 0:28:18.960 as the masterpiece God created you to be, then you 0:28:19.000 --> 0:28:23.120 will go through life confident, secure your gifts and talents 0:28:23.160 --> 0:28:25.600 will come out to the full. The right people will 0:28:25.640 --> 0:28:28.600 be drawn to you, and I believe and declare you 0:28:28.640 --> 0:28:32.520 will overcome every obstacle, defeat every enemy. You will become 0:28:32.600 --> 0:28:37.040 everything God's created you to be in Jesus' name. If 0:28:37.040 --> 0:28:40.840 you receive it, can you say amen today? 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