Speaker: Sis Wanping

Esteem- value

Jeremiah 1:4-5(NLT)
The Lord gave me this message:
“I knew you before I formed you in your mother’s womb.
Before you were born I set you apart
and appointed you as my prophet to the nations.”

Where do we base our self esteem on?

1)world's view of self-esteem
- I world something cause i'm doing well and other ppl look up to me

Proverbs 11:2
Pride leads to disgrace,
but with humility comes wisdom.

Proverbs 16:18
Pride goes before destruction,
and haughtiness before a fall.

2)God's view of self-esteem
- Having an understanding of God's view of who we actually are
All of us have value in God's eyes
- We are made in God's image
>Creative
>Understanding
>Feelings
>relationship

Genesis 1:27
So God created human beings* in his own image.
In the image of God he created them;
male and female he created them.

Jeremiah 29:11
For I know the plans I have for you,” says the Lord. “They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope.

- We belong to God
>we are nothing without God
>We are special with God

Genesis 2:7
Then the Lord God formed the man from the dust of the ground. He breathed the breath of life into the man’s nostrils, and the man became a living person.

Romans 5:8
But God showed his great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners

1 peter 2:9
But you are not like that, for you are a chosen people. You are royal priests, a holy nation, God’s very own possession. As a result, you can show others the goodness of God, for he called you out of the darkness into his wonderful light.

3)A humble view of ourselves

Philippians 2:5-7
You must have the same attitude that Christ Jesus had.
Though he was God,
he did not think of equality with God
as something to cling to.
Instead, he gave up his divine privileges;
he took the humble position of a slave
and was born as a human being.
When he appeared in human form,

1 Corinthians 15:10
But whatever I am now, it is all because God poured out his special favor on me—and not without results. For I have worked harder than any of the other apostles; yet it was not I but God who was working through me by his grace.

We should be humble, because what we have is not what we earned, but God's grace upon our lives

Pride = putting ourselves more important than anything else

Inferiority complex is a form of pride

We have to use what we have to serve God

Colossians 3:23-24
Work willingly at whatever you do, as though you were working for the Lord rather than for people. Remember that the Lord will give you an inheritance as your reward, and that the Master you are serving is Christ.

No matter how the world views us, we will never lose our relationship as well as our value to God.