I am
visiting the Los Angeles Dream Center this week as Keith Fulcher from The
Community Fellowship will graduate from the Discipleship program. The Thursday worship service is always a
powerful time of music and message from God’s word. Tonight was powerful as Kris Vallotton shared about the
value that we have because of God. I’d
like to share a few of the thoughts I got from his message.
QUOTE: You cannot think bad about yourself without
offending God. He is the artist and we are his creation.
We are
children of God because He made us and because Jesus died for us. The Bible tells us that we are made in the
likeness of God. Therefore, when we
dislike ourselves or think or act wrongly about who we are, we are offending
God. He made us. He loves us, and God doesn’t make things
without giving them great value!
Ephesians 2:10 NASB
For we are
His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared
beforehand so that we would walk in them.
QUOTE: You tell me how to treat you by the way your
treat yourself. The kingdom in me becomes the kingdom around me.
How you take care of what you have teaches people how to treat
what you have. It is like never changing
the oil in your car or never washing your car.
What seems insignificant tells others what we really value. If we love ourselves, we can better love
others.
Ephesians 5:28 NASB
So husbands
ought also to love their own
wives as their own bodies. He who loves
his own wife loves himself;
QUOTE: You don't become what you want to become.
You become what you see at the watering hole of your imagination.
Imagination
is a big deal. I can hear the song that
the purple dinosaur, Barney, sang about imagination. What we imagine and what we spend time
thinking about we become like. What we
put out time and effort into is what we value.
God
places value in our lives at creation.
He gave us even more value by giving His son for our sins and
issues. God takes us further by loving
us all the time and no matter what.
We are
valuable. By valuing ourselves we can
help others see the value God placed in their lives. You are valuable to God!!!
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