How much do you love yourself
because if you understand the value of self-love
you'll never be friends with those type of people
most of the people out here are running around empty they have no sense of self
no sense of self-love when I say self-love it has nothing to do with celebrity
money materialistic things nothing to do with cars and any of the superficial things
that one would assume that could make you love yourself even more
it's a matter of knowing your value
it's a matter of you saying I don't have to be around these people
in these type of environments and situations in order for me to finally see the value in myself
I love me independent of you loving me I believe in me
I know my self-worth I know clearly that I'm a child of God and God has a purpose over
my life and if he didn't I wouldn't be here anymore and I don't need you to tell me that
I don't need you to validate me too many people don't like who they are
they focus on their faults and weaknesses they relived their mistakes and failures they wish
they were different if they were taller had a better personality looked like their cousin
instead of accepting themselves as a masterpiece made in the image of God they're critical toward
themselves they wonder why they're not happy why they don't have good relationships it's because
they don't like themselves if you don't get along with you you're not going to get along with other
people Jesus said love your neighbor as you love yourself you can't love others if you don't first
love yourself the best thing you can do for your family for your friends is be good to you
be kind to you be merciful to you be forgiving to you be loving to you you're good to others why
aren't you good to you you don't criticize your friend why are you criticizing you
you compliment your co-worker when's the last time you complimented yourself you admire their talent
why don't you admire your talent start being good to you that's not being selfless that's
not arrogant that's loving yourself too many people go through life against themselves
feeling wrong on the inside I heard someone say I discovered the enemy it was me
are you your enemy are you defeating yourself limiting your dreams sabotaging your relationships
all because you don't like you you have enough people and circumstances against you don't be
against yourself if you don't love yourself and value yourself there is nothing else in your life
that's going to be enjoyable or in the right order you need to be your own best ally your
own best friend don't be against yourself if you don't love yourself you can't love anybody else
come on some of you your biggest problem right now all the problems you think you have your biggest
problem is you don't like yourself okay what right do you have to be against yourself when Jesus
died to save you when he loves you so much that he died the painful death that he died for you what
right do you have to be against yourself how many of you believe you're called to love other people
well one of these that absolutely well guess what you can't do that if you don't love yourself
and I'm not talking about in a selfish self-centered way I'm talking about in a healthy
balanced way I can only love myself because God loves me and if he's perfect and he can love me
then surely I can receive that love and let that love flow through me back out to other people
when you wake up in the morning don't lie in bed and think of everything wrong with you
what you don't like about your looks relive your mistakes why didn't I finish college I should be
more disciplined I lost my temper yesterday instead of focusing on what's wrong with you
start focusing on what's right with you you may have weaknesses you've made mistakes we all have
but there's a lot more right with you than there is wrong with you
dwelling on the negative doesn't help you to do better beating yourself up for past
mistakes doesn't move you forward the better you feel about yourself the better you'll do
the more you like yourself the further you'll go you can't give away what you don't have
if you're in turmoil on the inside mad at yourself critical condemned that's what you have to give
if you're hard on yourself you'll be hard on others if you don't forgive yourself you won't
forgive others if you don't get along with you how can you get along with your family
the best thing you can do is start being for you when you love yourself then you can love others
when you're kind to yourself then you can be kind to others it starts with you love it's actually
the answer to finding our self-worth everybody in the world just wants to be valuable we just
want to know that we matter we want to know that we mean something to somebody
and sadly if people don't get a good start in life they can waste yes I said waste their whole entire
life searching for self-worth and they look for it in all the wrong places in what they do
the people they know the label in their clothes how they look very often it's what kind of work
that people do they think that they're valuable if they can be the president or have their name
on an office door but they feel like they have no value if maybe they do some kind of a menial
job the thing we have to understand that our worth and value is not and never can be in any of that
maybe we look more valuable to the world but not to God you are valuable not because you
look a certain way or don't look a certain way not because you have uh some kind of a title
that goes along with your job or because you do whatever you would think would be the lowliest
job on earth your value is not tied up in any of that stuff love yourself believe in yourself
love yourself believe in yourself independent of the validation of the world
have opinions and feelings about yourself independent of the feedback
why you gotta have somebody calling you beautiful every day in order for you to feel beautiful
do you believe that you're beautiful or do you only believe you're beautiful when other
people say that you're beautiful I love me so the day that you decide to stop
loving me I'm not gonna love myself any less I believe in me if you stop believing in me
I'm not gonna believe in myself any less if you believe that I'm irrelevant that no one is
checking for me and that I don't mean anything to the world because you think or believe that about
me it doesn't believe it doesn't mean that I'm gonna believe it about myself see the day that
you start living your life according to everybody else's opinion is the beginning of the end there's
no hope of making any progress in our life there's no hope of getting from the test to the testimony
if we don't learn that we are deeply loved Psalm 27:10 says even though my mother and
my father have forsaken me the Lord will take me up and adopt me as his own child
God is so much more important than any person in the world let's look at Ephesians 1 4 and 5
even as in his own love he chose us actually picked us out for himself
as his own in Christ before the foundation of the world
that we should be holy consecrated and set apart for him and blameless in his sight
even above reproach living before him in love God just didn't get stuck with you he chose you
you understand me I'm going to tell you why you're worth something
and worth just as much as anybody else on the planet because God loves you and because he sent
his only son to die for you and if if you would have been the only person on the earth he would
have still done the same thing I mean God loves everybody we can accept that but God loves you
on your worst day just as much as on your best day you know why because
love is not something that God is even able to turn on and off like we do
you see love is not even really something God does it's who he is God is love and I believe
it's the love of God that rescues us it's the love of God that heals the brokenhearted
you may be laying in a bed sick you may be sitting in a chair somewhere deeply depressed
you may have been abused in your childhood you may have been rejected abandoned
perhaps your spouse just walked off and left you with a house full of kids and you don't know what
in the world you're going to do and you feel like the tail end of everything and that nobody loves
you and you don't even love you well I want you to listen to me God loves you I said God loves you
and I want you to receive that right now by faith I want you to step out and say can God love me yes
God can love you because God is perfect and he can do anything that he wants to and he doesn't love
you because you deserve it and that's what makes it so amazing he loves us in spite of ourselves
God loves you it doesn't matter who doesn't love you God does love you amen