We need to take a good look in the mirror.  What do you see?  A person whom God loves.  Don’t compare yourself with others.  Who do you want to be in life? A business woman, a homemaker, a public person, a woman of God….  See yourself at the end. Who do you want to have become?  Write it down and think about how you can get there.  You have choices in life, but if you don’t know where you are going, how can you make the right choices?

Knowing your value will help you in reaching your potential in God and give you some confidence to pursue the dreams God has given you.

God has some wonderful things planned for you..  You are his workmanship created in Christ Jesus for good works that he has mapped out ahead of time for you to accomplish. He has some wonderful things designed for you and all you have to do is walk in his ways and discover them. 

I want to give you hope that you have a beautiful future whoever you are.  Today is the first day of the rest of your life. When we give our lives to Christ, he takes the old and gives us something new.  It is a great exchange.  Old things are passed away.  That old self is not you any more.  So you need to start thinking of yourself in a different way now.  That is the process of spritual renewal.

Have you ever gone in for a makeover at one of those department store cosmetic counters?  Ok you go in and you sit down and you say, make me beautiful! 

They will first say, "Ok, here is some makeup remover.  Take all that old stuff that you have on your face off first and then we will make you over."  It would be quite ignorant of me if I would get angry with the lady, and say, "Look lady, I spent an hour putting this makeup on and I am not taking it off!"  She would laugh and say,  "Well, I’m sorry then, you won’t receive the benefits of the makeover.  I can’t put on anything on top of that old stuff you have on. 

Eph 4 : 21-24 is one of my favorite verses.  It says.

Since you have heard all about him and have learned the truth that is in Jesus, throw off your old evil nature and your former way of life, which is rotten through and through, full of lust and deception.  Instead there must be a spiritual renewal of your thoughts and attitudes.  You must display a new nature because you are a new person, created in God’s likeness- righteous, holy and true.

I have to constantly tell myself new thoughts and train my attitudes to reflect who I really am- a new person created in God’s likeness.  Righteous holy and true.

It is so important to focus on God and His word and make his word our true foundation for our lives.

The world, the devil, and your own unredeemed fleshly thinking is going to try to distract you, but like horses, put on the blinders and focus. Don’t look to the left or to the right.  Keep the Word of God ever before your eyes.  What does God say?  Live by that.

more to come....