Most people have no idea what success really is some people think success means make a lot of money
you can make a ton of money and be an absolute failure in your life
some people think being successful means being famous you can be famous as all get
out and be a total failure with your life some people think success is having a lot of power
you can have an enormous amount of power and big egotistical narcissistic twit
it means nothing what is real success okay here's what the bible
says real success is real success being who God made you to be
not trying to be somebody else not trying to be what your parents wanted you to be real success
is being what God wired you to be and when you be who God wired you to be when you be you God goes
you got it that's why I put you on earth I put you on earth to be you you're not that guy you're
not that guy you're not that guy you're not her you're not her this is who I made you to be that
is real success now let me share something with you you've probably never thought of before
you have one thing that nobody else in the entire world has
you have an advantage over everybody else that nobody else has
if you're a woman you have this advantage over every other woman in the world and if you're a
man you have this advantage over every other man in the world you know what it is they can't be you
they can't be you only you can be you and God made you to be you not them
so they will never be you if anybody else tries to be you you know what happens they fail
they will fail if they try to be you I can't be you
you can't be me but only you can be you and only I can be me only you can be who God made you to be
if you try to be somebody else in life you are absolutely going to fail
because you can't be anybody but you you're going to fail so stop trying to be somebody else
be who God made you to be be who you are Christ God has already put in you everything you need
to be you you lack nothing to be a success in life if you understand that success is being you
now if you think being a success is being somebody else yeah you don't have their gifts
you don't have their talents you don't have their opportunities okay yeah you then you
do lack a lot of things if you think success is being somebody else but if you think a successful
life is being who God made me to be you've already got everything because God put it in you when he
when he planned you and when he when he birthed you and when he wired you
when we compare think we have to be like someone else we can feel shortchanged like
we're at a disadvantage I'm not as talented as they are here's the key God has given you what
you need to fulfill your destiny if you needed a different personality he would have given you one
if you needed different gifts different strengths different looks different parents it would have
happened quit comparing and run your race I wonder if you're fighting what makes you unique
are you frustrated over what you think is a weakness when in fact it's a strength quit
wishing you were something different and step in to who God made you to be he didn't accidentally
give you the wrong personality make you too quiet too outgoing the wrong gifts he matched you
with your world you have exactly what you need to fulfill your destiny you have to be comfortable
in your own skin comfortable in who God made you to be don't covet what someone else has
if you had their gifts their personality their looks it wouldn't help you it would hinder you
you are equipped for your race you have the right personality the right gifts the right looks
you're the right height you come from the right family you weren't shortchanged you're not at a
disadvantage you've been fearfully and wonderfully made walk in your anointing be confident with
your gifts let your personality shine there's not another person in this world like you
the enemy would love for you to go through life trying to be an imitation copying someone else
that you think is more attractive more gifted more successful no be you nobody can do you
like you can do you you're not anointed to be someone else the anointing on your life the favor
the blessing is to be you you won't activate the favor you won't see the abundance if you're trying
to be something that you're not feeling wrong on the inside because you're not like someone else
the only reason why you're unhappy is because you're trying to be something you're not
I mean that is the only reason and you're doing it for all the wrong
reasons because you think you're supposed to because people tell you you should
you ought to it's amazing everybody that does something thinks everybody else ought to do it
but that's not the way it should be and you know when when you find out what your sweet spot is or
what it is that you're supposed to be doing what you're gifted for and
talented for the devil will use any number of ways to try to get you out of it and
one of the things that happens is we begin to compare ourselves with other people and maybe
we're not doing what they're doing and maybe it looks like what they're doing is more important or
it's better than what we're doing and so we fall into the trap and I think everybody
probably does this at least once in their life for some people it's a lifetime problem of
trying to be something that they're not we think that we should be like this one or like that
when we should look like you or act like you or behave like you or be able to do what you do and
and I can tell you before God can do very much with you you're going to have to come
to terms with and get comfortable being yourself I want everybody to go out of here knowing that
you don't have any reason or right to compare yourself with anybody else and if you're doing
this I want you to stop comparing yourself with other people you don't need to look like them
act like them know what they know do what they do you need to just
be you Ephesians chapter 2 verse 10 says this we are each God's masterpiece did you know
that's in the bible you are a masterpiece you are a masterpiece you're not a reject
you're not a defect God says you're a masterpiece just as you are stop trying
to be somebody else he said I made you to be you and God looks at you and he goes that's my girl
that's my boy and you don't have to be somebody else for God to smile at you in fact God smiles
when you be you when you try to be somebody you're not God frowns go what are you doing
I didn't make you to be somebody else if I'd wanted you to be somebody else I would not
have created you I would have just made them so why are you trying to be somebody else
you are God's masterpiece we are God's masterpiece he created us in Christ Jesus to do the good
things he has planned in advance for us to do with our lives nobody else in in history has your DNA
nobody nobody in the past nobody in the future will ever be you God doesn't create clones or
copies even identical twins are different in thousands and thousands of different ways
you're not one in a million you're one in trillions there's nobody ever going to be like
you in the past and future that's how specifically God custom made you and he wants you to be
you God doesn't want you to be anybody else God doesn't want you to be me
God doesn't want me to be you God doesn't want you to be the person next to you why can't you be more
like your brother your sister your dad or your mother God wants you to be you if he hadn't wanted
to be you you wouldn't exist and yet we spend our entire lives trying to be somebody we're not
we spend our entire lives trying to well I want to be like that guy
and I want to be like that woman and and we miss the whole purpose of our lives God made you to
be you he doesn't want you to be anybody else a lot of people live in a proving mode they can't
feel good about themselves unless they prove to people they're important prove to their co-worker
they're talented and prove to their critics that they really are okay there's a constant struggle
they're always having to out do outperform out drive outdress it's very freeing when you realize
you don't have to prove anything you don't have to impress people take the pressure off
it takes a lot of energy to compete to prove to impress if you live in a proving mode
it's like you're on a treadmill as soon as you prove to one person you're okay
you'll see somebody else you need to impress it's a never ending cycle get off that treadmill
we rely too much on what people think who believes in us and how come they're not supporting me
don't spend your life trying to get something that they cannot give I know people working
80 hours a week trying to prove to their parents they're successful prove to their family they're
good enough you have to let it go or you'll be frustrated turn to your heavenly father get your
approval from him he's smiling down on you he sees you excelling you don't have to have their
approval to be happy God approves you he's the one that matters one of the most liberating things in
life will be when you finally learn someday I don't need other people's approval to be happy
you don't you only need the approval of one person God and if God likes you and you like
you if you don't like me if I like me and God likes me what's your problem
I don't need your approval that you lack nothing to be the success God made you to
be so it really doesn't matter what anybody thinks about you why are you so hung up on
what other people think about you what other people think about you is none of your business
it's none of your business you shouldn't even care about it what you should live
for is an audience of one as I said if God likes me and I like me what's your problem
I I wasn't I wasn't billed I wasn't created I wasn't planned I wasn't birthed to please you
I was created and planned to please God and if that's what I'm focused on it's
always going to be the right thing stop being a people pleaser and start being a God pleaser
stop being a people pleaser and start being a God pleaser
then by the way it's a whole lot easier to do because it's only one person
if you're going to be a people pleaser have you noticed they don't always agree
one you know once you get crowd a please crowd b gets ticked at you and then you
get a crowd b please crowd a gets upset one minute you're the hero the next miniature the
zero terrible way to live stop being a people pleaser make a commitment that on this day
I'm going to stop being a people pleaser I'm starting to be a God pleaser I'm going to worry
about his God is this what you want me to do it will always be the right thing he will never never
steer you in the wrong direction but we all have people that are not giving us their approval
they don't acknowledge our gifts they don't see what we have to offer
don't live frustrated thinking that there's something wrong with you trying to prove to them
who you are trying to convince them to affirm you let it go there's nothing wrong with you
if you had to have it they would give it since you don't shake it off keep your head held high
knowing that your heavenly father has approved you accepted you and anointed you you don't
have to prove anything you don't have to try to impress people just be who you are be amazing
God calls you a masterpiece you are one of a kind you didn't come off an assembly line you
weren't mass produced God made you unique there will never be another you put your shoulders
back start carrying yourself with confidence you have been fearfully and wonderfully made