Will You Rise Up And Know Your Worth?

God knew you before you were ever born. You were not created to fail. He loved you so much that He thought of you from the beginning of time. If your Heavenly Father loves you so passionately, then maybe we should begin to love ourselves with that same passion. Not an arrogance, but a confidence that we are made Beautiful in His image.  Psalm 139:13 Says: For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother's womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Why do we all at some point in life challenge our worth?

Because we are used to the world (Satan) reminding us of who he thinks we are. It’s time we shut him down and remind ourselves that we were chosen by the by God in His image for His Glory. 1 Peter 2:9 You are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. God’s plan for us is not for failure, self-doubt, fear or rejection. It is His plan is that we have hope, that we live a life of hope and prosperity. Jeremiah 29:11 For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope. My prayers, my hearts cry has been for God’s people to awaken from this slumber we have found ourselves in and rise up.

I believe in order to rise up, we must know who God is in us and who we are in Him. That takes relationship, and as you know one of the most important ingredients to a healthy relationship is Communication. If you were in a relationship with someone, whether it be marriage, friendship, sisterhood, father and daughter etc., and every single day that person told you how wonderful, how smart, how gifted, how beautiful you were, you would then begin believing those things about yourself and your image of yourself would look a lot different than it does right now. Well there are at least thirty-three scriptures that I have found that tells us who we are. I’m sure there are hundreds more. All through scripture God is reminding us of His love for us and telling who we are in Him. From being accepted by Him to our significance in Him, to securing our place with Him. We all have an amazing opportunity to learn our worth and rise up to remind others of theirs.

We have all experienced brokenness. But that doesn’t define who we are. There’s this song by: Andra Day called I’ll Rise Up. It says:  I'll rise up, I'll rise like the day, I'll rise up, I'll rise unafraid, I'll rise up
And I'll do it a thousand times again….. I sing that almost every day now. Saying in my heart, Yes God, I’ll rise up and I’ll do it again, all for Your Glory. Not always do I achieve that fearlessly, but Oh if we can only get the concept that we are Beautiful and our lives have worth. Isaiah 61:3 to bestow on them a crown of beauty instead of ashes, the oil of joy instead of mourning, and a garment of praise instead of a spirit of despair. They will be called oaks of righteousness, a planting of the Lord for the display of his splendor. Believe in yourself and know that the God in you in so beyond worthy.