Authentically, Uniquely You – Part 1

“Stop determining your worth and value by what other people say. Be determined by what the Word of God (scriptures)says.”
― Joyce Meyer

Find the freedom to be the amazing you God desires with today’s resources authentically, uniquely you and Joyce’s children’s book, Uniquely You in authentically uniquely, you be encouraged to overcome comparison and people pleasing while learning how God has given you unique talents and abilities to fulfill his purposes for your life.
And in this picture book, uniquely you Joyce shares an empowering message for chill that encourages them to embrace their wonderful, unique God given identities together.
You and your Children will discover the message that God made each of us for a reason and we are exactly who He meant us to be authentically.
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Thank you for joining us today on enjoying everyday life.
I pray that the word of God will bless you today and change your life.
I’m gonna be teaching on authentically and uniquely you.
I’m gonna start with some opening comments being your authentic and unique self in a world that is usually trying to make you what they want you to be is a challenge that we will deal with at varying times throughout our lives.
We’re all unique and that’s a good thing. That’s not a bad thing. It’s a good thing.
There is no one exactly like you in the world. No one.
And that makes you not only unique but special.
I want you to get that one of a kind.
Things are usually very valuable and they’re sought after with that in mind.
Why do we try so hard to be someone else?
Why do we try to be like other people?
It’s usually because we are not fully accepting ourselves and we fear that other people won’t either.
It’s amazing how the way we feel about ourselves, we usually project onto other people thinking that they’ll feel the same way about us that we do.
God gives each of us unique talents, abilities and traits, but he doesn’t give anyone everything.
I think that’s a very important point.
None of us have everything but we all have something by doing this.
He’s requiring us to depend on one another if you have a gift that I need, but I don’t have that gift, then I need to depend on you to come alongside me and share that gift.
He wants us to work together and appreciate the gifts that are in one another.
Rather than being jealous of them and trying to copy them.
one of the best things that you can do is to accept yourself and believe that God created you in your mother’s womb with his own hand very carefully and that you are fearfully and wonderfully made.
Let me say again, you are very special.
You’re unique, you’re special and you are very valuable and I feel in my heart that some of you really, really need to hear that.
So I’m gonna say it again. You are unique. You’re very special and you’re very valuable.
Maybe no one has ever told you that maybe there have even been people in your life that have made you feel the exact opposite.
I know I wondered what was wrong with me because I didn’t feel like I was like everyone else.
And so I thought I was weird, but God taught me that I was actually unique.
I want to talk to you today about learning to love who you are and to be at peace with yourself.
Some of the disciples asked Jesus, it’s recorded in Matthew 22, which of all the commandments is the most important.
And Jesus said the first and most important commandment is to love the Lord, your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind and all your strength.
And a second is like it. You shall love your neighbor as you love yourself.
Now think about that how do you love yourself?
You see, you may think that it would be wrong to love yourself.
I’m not saying to be in love with yourself.
I’m not saying to have yourself on your mind all the time and think that everybody should always be doing what you want them to do.
But I’m saying to love yourself to love God’s creation.
And really, I believe that if we don’t love ourselves in a balanced and a Godly way, then we’re not receiving the love that God is giving us.
Romans 55 tells us that the love of God is shed abroad, are poured into our heart by the Holy Spirit.
So one of the first things that you should sense and feel when you receive Christ as your Savior is the love of God.
You know, that may sound very simple. It’s easy for us to tell other people, Jesus loves you.
But are you receiving his love for you? Are you far you or are you against you?
No one is gonna love everything we do.
As a matter of fact, I don’t love everything that I do, but we should love the person that God created us to be.
We can learn to love ourselves because He loves us and because it’s God’s will for us to do so and until you come to terms of peace with yourself, listen, I’m gonna say you are never going to enjoy your life Until you come to terms of peace with yourself.
You’re never going to enjoy your life.
First Peter 3, 10 and 11 says that in order to love life and have enjoyable days, good days that we have to keep our tongue from evil.
That’s interesting. So how we talk is very important and I might just throw out a question right here.
Now, how do you talk about yourself? I hear people say I’m so stupid.
I could never do anything, right?
I used to say things like that, but I’ve had to learn to talk about myself the way God talks about me.
Because when you say bad things about yourself, you’re actually opening a door for the enemy, for the devil to come and just wreak havoc in your life.
And first Peter 3 11 says, let him turn away from wickedness.
This is if you want to enjoy life and see good days, the amplified Bible says, if you want to see good days, whether a parent or not.
So that’s obviously saying that you can enjoy your life, even if you have trials and tribulations going on, turn away from wickedness and shun it and let him do right?
Let him search for peace. Keep the word. Search in mind.
If you happen to be taking notes, you might write down search harmony, undisturbed this from fears, agitating passions and moral conflicts and seek it, eagerly seek as another word to write down.
In other words, this piece is not just gonna fall on us, from heaven.
It’s been given to us as a gift because Jesus said I leave you my peace and peace is one of the fruit of the spirit.
So it is in us. But yet we have to pursue it and seek it. You know why?
Because Satan is always, always, always trying to take it away from us.
Don’t merely desire peaceful relationships with God, with yourself and with others.
33 relationships where we need to have peace, peace with God, peace with yourself and peace with others.
And I personally think they have to come in that order first. You need to have peace with God.
And if you have peace with God, then you can have peace with yourself.
And if you have peace with yourself, then you can have peace with other people.
I always say, and you’ve probably heard me say, if you watch the program very often that we cannot give away what we don’t have.
So if I don’t have peace with myself, how can I be at peace with you?
You must pursue and go after them.
I love that, pursue, seek chase after eagerly desire.
We won’t have peace unless we seek it and seek it diligently.
It’s not that it’s not there, but we need to really want it.
And I found in my life that in order for me to have peace, I had to make some changes in my life.
One of the things I had to do was learn what the enemy was using to steal my piece.
I’ll just give you one example.
If I don’t leave enough time to get out of the house in the morning, if I’m coming to the office or have an appointment somewhere without hurrying, then I’ll always end up losing my peace.
You need to save time for things that will happen that you didn’t plan on happening because almost all the time something does.
You can’t find something you’re looking for.
You get in and get a phone call that you have to take and that puts you a little bit behind.
And so if you really want to have peace, you’re probably going to have to change some things in your life.
I discovered that if I wanted to have peace with other people, I had to be adaptable and adjustable, pliable and Moldable.
I couldn’t always have my way. I had to be willing to let them have their way.
Revelation 12 10 says, then I heard a loud voice in heaven say now have come the salvation and the power in the kingdom of our God and the authority of his messiah for the accuser of our brothers and sisters, the one who accuses them before God, day and night has been hurled down.
Well, Satan definitely is an accuser.
I mean, you wake up in the morning and he doesn’t whisper in your ear all the good things that you did yesterday.
The first thing he tries to do in the morning is to remind you of some mistake you made yesterday.
So you can start the day already feeling bad about what you did the day before.
He only has authority where we give him authority.
God has given us authority and power over the enemy.
And the best way to walk free is to know the word of God and be able to recognize when Satan is lying to you and speak the truth and believe that instead of His lies, we will send and make mistakes.
But through repentance, which basically means you’re sorry for your sin.
But you’re also, you’re not just sorry, but you’re willing to turn and go in the right direction.
We can be sorry all the time.
But unless we’re willing to change and go in God’s direction, nothing’s ever gonna change for us.
We will send and make mistakes.
But through repentance, we can be totally and completely forgiven and free from guilt.
You don’t have to spend your life feeling guilty and condemned because you make mistakes. We are imperfect.
You’re no surprise to God.
He knew that you would make mistakes when he invited you into relationship with him.
And we overcome the accuser by the blood of the lamb and the word of our testimony.
What does that mean? The word of our testimony? It means by testifying to the word of God.
So when you start to feel guilty, but you’re feeling guilty about something that you already repented of and ask God to forgive you for.
You can recognize that that is the enemy lying to you.
And you can say things like I am a child of God.
God loves me and I am forgiven.
There is no condemnation for those who are in Christ and I am in Christ.
The word is called the sword of the spirit.
It’s one of the most effective weapons that we have to use against the enemy.
And we are to wield that two edged sword.
If a soldier went into battle and he had a sword on his side, but he never took it out of the sheath and used it.
He would probably get killed. And the Bible says, let those who have my word speak my word faithfully.
I speak the word of God out loud out of my mouth every day.
Sometimes a lot, sometimes not as much, but the word of God is very powerful.
I have to remind myself that God loves me that I’m forgiven.
And boy, the enemy hates to hear you talk like that because He wants you say everything about what’s wrong with you.
Ephesians 6 17 is a chapter in the Bible.
Well, chapter six that talks about our armor, the armor that God has given us to protect ourselves against the enemy.
And it says put on the full armor of God.
Well, it doesn’t do any good to have it if we don’t put it on.
And one of the first pieces of armor is the belt of truth and it says, tighten the belt of truth.
So when you’re in a battle, when the enemy’s coming against you, you not, you not only have the belt of truth, but you need to tighten it and make sure the enemy doesn’t take it away from you.
That means you know the truth of what the word of God says and that’s what you’re gonna believe.
That’s what you’re going to speak. And the second thing it talks about is putting on the breastplate of righteousness.
That means knowing who you are in Christ.
Yes, we do things that are wrong, but God forgives us.
And second Corinthians 5 21 says He that knew no sin became sin, that we might be made.
The righteousness of God in Christ.
I always like to say, the devil wants to give us wrongness, which I know is not really a proper word, but God wants to give us rightness.
Now, we all have things wrong with us.
But you know, if you’re a child of God and you’ve been studying the word, there’s a very good chance that you have more right with you than you have wrong with you.
And boy, the devil never wants you to realize that you’re changing.
And that even though you still have a long way to go you can enjoy where you’re at on the way to where you’re going.
You can enjoy yourself and you can enjoy your life.
Remember that you have been washed clean in the blood of Jesus Christ.
You’ve been washed, you’ve been forgiven.
And the Bible says that God not only forgives our sins, but he forgets them, moves them as far as the east is from the west and remembers them no more.
Wow. Let me encourage you today to stop taking a continual inventory of everything that’s wrong with you and all your faults in hebrews 12.
It says we’re to look away from all that distracts under Jesus, who is the author and the finisher of our faith.
Well, do you know when you constantly look at everything that’s wrong with you?
It really takes your attention off of Jesus and onto all your faults.
And I do believe that Godly examination can be good.
I think it’s good sometimes to spend some time in the presence of God and just maybe ponder with the Holy Spirit.
Is there anybody that I need to forgive that I haven’t forgiven?
Do I have any sin in my life that I haven’t confessed that I need to take care of with God?
Am I being generous? Am I being a blessing to other people?
And I find even that I have to do on purpose, I asked God almost every morning, what can I do for somebody else today?
And then I even think about the people I’m gonna be around and I think about what I might be able to do for them.
Do I have anything that I could give them? That would be a blessing to them?
Second Corinthians 13 5 says, examine yourselves to see whether you are in the faith.
See, that’s so good to remember that the Bible says that whatever is not of faith is sin.
So a lot of times we just need to think of my walking in faith.
And I really believe in God. Do you not realize that Christ Jesus is in you?
Unless of course you fail your test.
We need to live from faith to faith, to faith, not from faith, to doubt, to unbelief and back to faith.
Let’s learn how to walk in faith in everything that we do examine yourself to see if you’re in faith, joy and peace are found in believing.
The Bible says in Romans 15, if you’ve lost your joy, you might want to stop and ask yourself, what am I believing?
You may be believing something about yourself. That’s a total lie.
You may be believing something about someone else that God doesn’t want you to believe use your faith to live free from condemnation.
You know, many, many years ago, when God was teaching me these things, I was using my faith to try to get all these things that I thought I wanted in my life.
And God put in my heart.
He said, now I’ve taught you about faith and how to use your faith.
Now, I’m gonna teach you what to use it far.
And He put on my heart, use your faith to live free from condemnation.
I don’t think we realize how much it hurts our relationship with God.
If we’re always feeling bad about ourselves and bad about something that we’ve done, God knows that you were not going to be perfect and that’s why he’s provided Jesus Christ.
Stop comparing yourself with other people.
We all have a tendency to do that, but it’s not a good thing to do.
Our individuality is one of the greatest gifts that God gives us.
I used to think there was something wrong with me because I wasn’t like every other woman that I knew.
But I’ve now found out that God has gifted me for just what he’s called me to do.
He’s given me the personality for just what he’s called me to do.
And I don’t have to be like somebody else.
I don’t think we’re ever free until we learn that we don’t have to impress other people.
We’re not free as long as we’re trying to be somebody else.
God is never going to help you be somebody else.
One of the things we say is you might as well be yourself because everybody else is already taken.
We should celebrate our uniqueness, not despise it.
God will never help you be anyone but yourself areas where we tend to compare ourselves.
Let’s think about it. How we look. Do you look better than me?
Oh, I don’t look as good as you do. Body size and shape.
I don’t know exactly what eve looked like in the Garden of Eden.
But I don’t think she was like this super skinny stick like person.
We always find somebody that we think looks better than we do.
We compare our abilities to other people.
You know, I can’t sing and I can’t play a musical instrument, but I am a very good communicator.
I can’t do everything but I can do something and you can’t do everything but you can do something and you need to stop worrying about what you can’t do and get really, really good at what you can do.
We compare who we know, do I know?
I wish I knew the important people that, you know, I know people that know all kinds of famous and well known people and, and you know what?
I don’t compare myself with them. That’s not even anything that interests me all that much.
I want to know the people that God wants me to know.
And I don’t want to look at one person as being better than somebody else.
I want to be like Jesus and love everybody the same.
We compare what we own.
But here’s an interesting fact just because someone has something does not mean that they own it.
If they’re making payments on it and they’re in debt, then it still belongs to the bank or the loan company.
How long we pray? How much of the Bible have we read?
What are our spiritual gifts and talents? Don’t compare yourself with other people?
Just be the unique, wonderful, valuable person that you are.
Do you know how much peace it can add to your life if you stop comparing yourself with other people and you need to understand righteousness.
You know, we talk a lot about knowing who you are in Christ and it’s amazing as much as I talk about that.
How often I find that people really don’t understand it.
If you get into a one on one conversation with them, they really don’t understand what it means.
Well, to be in Christ means that you believe and understand by faith that when he died, you were with him on that cross.
When he died, you died when he was raised, you were raised.
Paul said it’s no longer I that live but Christ that lives in me and the life I now live.
I live by faith. He actually says by the faith of the Son of God, you’re in Christ and he’s in you, you’ve had a divine exchange.
He took your sin and gave you his righteousness.
He took everything that was wrong with you and gave you brand new wonderful things that you can enjoy.
Romans 320 through 24 says therefore, no one will be declared righteous in God’s sight by the works of the law.
Rather through the law, we become conscious of sin. Boy.
If you go back to the Old Testament and you read not only the 10 commandments, but all the laws they were required to follow.
Oh, my goodness. I am so grateful that I’m in the new covenant with God and the law was perfect.
It was faultless. But the problem was, is nobody could keep it perfectly.
And it says that if you, if you’re guilty and one point of the law, then you’re guilty of the whole thing.
So God didn’t give it to people expecting them to keep it.
He gave it to people to show them that they needed a savior that they needed help.
So the law is good, but all it does is make you aware of your sin.
So you can repent and ask God to help you not. So you can feel guilty and condemned.
Righteousness is given through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe.
And there is no difference between Jew and gentile.
The Jews were the chosen people of God and they had a tendency to think that they were better than other people.
And when God started to include the gentiles in relationship with him, many of them had a real hard time with it and Paul tried to teach them, there’s no more male or female Junior Greek, but we’re all one in Christ.
The Bible says, all have sinned and come short of the glory of God.
But the good news is, it says therefore, all are justified by grace and made, right with God through faith.
I want you to remember how special you are to God.
You are to be authentic and uniquely yourself and not ever try to be somebody else or feel bad about who you are.
Now. Today, we’re offering you the book that I’ve written called Authentically Uniquely you.
I really want you to have this book.
I think it’s gonna help set you free from the tyranny of comparison and also from people pleasing.
I think you’re gonna enjoy the book.
So please get it, get online and get it, call us and order it anywhere where books are sold, you can get it, but you need to read this book.
Now, remember we love you and care about you, but more importantly, God loves you and cares about you and he has a very good plan for your life.
God bless you and thank you for being with us today.
Find the freedom to be the amazing you God desires with today’s resources, authentically, uniquely you and Joyce’s children’s book uniquely you in authentically uniquely, you be encouraged to overcome comparison and people pleasing while learning how God has given you unique talents and abilities to fulfill His purposes for your life.
And in this picture book. Uniquely you.
Joyce shares an empowering message for Children that encourages them to embrace their wonderful, unique God given identities together.
You and your Children will discover the message that God made each of us for a reason.
And we are exact who He meant us to be. Authentically.
Uniquely you and uniquely you are available today for your gift of $35 or more. Connect with us.
Now, visit online at Joyce Meyer dot org or call 1 807 092895.
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