Good Morning Devotional with Dr Diana Brevan 5-18-18
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It's vital to love
yourself (who you are in Christ)

Dr. Diana
Brevan

When I say that you need to
love yourself, I'm not referring
to the stuck-up, prideful, worldly type of loving oneself
(also known as
self-worship); I'm talking about a concept of being
thankful, and appreciating
the person who God has made in you. The worldly type of
loving yourself is
where you are stuck up, prideful and arrogant, whereas this
type of loving
yourself is based upon humility and thankfulness. The two
could not be more
different!



The amount of bondage that
results from self-rejection,
self-hatred, unwillingness to forgive oneself and so forth
is shocking. Below
are just a few of the symptoms:



- Self-rejection; not
accepting yourself, always beating up
on yourself, not happy with the person that God made you,
etc.



- Self-hatred; hating the
person who God made in you,
considering yourself ugly, dumb, clumsy,
etc.



- Unforgiveness or
bitterness; when a person continues to
hold things against themself, such as something in their
past that was
embarrassing, gross, or that they are still ashamed of (even
after repentance).



- Being hard on oneself;
always beating up on yourself
mentally, physically, emotionally, etc. Always seeing
yourself as worthless, or
pushing to reach irrational goals just to feel good about
yourself.



- Low self-esteem; always
seeing yourself as a failure, or
less than those around you.



- Ashamed of yourself;
refusing to forgive yourself from
something in your past.



- Feeling ugly or stupid;
seeing yourself as ugly,
worthless, stupid, no good for nothing, etc.



The list can go on and on,
but if this sounds like you, then
keep reading!



You need to be
thankful



Many today consider
themselves dumb, ugly, stupid, clumsy,
worthless, etc. Did you know that you were created in
God's own image, and
whenever you consider yourself dumb, ugly, etc., you're
actually considering
something that God made as being ugly, dumb,
etc.??



Genesis 1:26, "And God
said, Let us make man in our
image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over
the fish of the sea,
and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over
all the earth, and
over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the
earth."



Let me ask you a couple
questions...



- Did God create your
physical body? If so, would you dare
make a statement that God made an ugly body?



- Did God create your mind
and intellect? If so, would you
dare make a statement that God created a dumb, stupid, or
worthless brain?



- If God created you in His
image, then are you saying that
His image is dumb, stupid, worthless or
ugly?



David was a humble man with a
heart after God's own, yet he
praised and thanked God for the marvelous work that God had
made (referring to
his physical body):



Psalms 139:14, "I will
praise thee; for I am fearfully
and wonderfully made: marvelous are thy works; and that my
soul knoweth right
well."



David was not boasting in who
he was, but rather being
thankful and rejoicing over the beautiful creation that God
made in him! How
many who consider themselves ugly are looking at things the
way David did?
Probably not too many!



King David appreciated and
thanked God for what God gave
him. Instead of saying, "I'm ugly", David was
saying, "Wow! Look
at what God gave me! It's marvelous!!" It's
vital that we develop this
same attitude about what God's given each of us as
wellYou need to forgive
yourself!



Much is said on how we are to
forgive others, but many of us
seem to skip over the concept of forgiving ourselves.
Believe it or not, it's
equally important and vital to be sure we've forgiven
ourselves, as it is that
we've forgiven others! Unforgiveness brings much bondage
into our lives,
regardless if it's towards God, others or even
ourselves. Bitterness (the fruit
of unforgiveness) is a means by which many are
defiled:



Hebrews 12:15, "Looking
diligently lest any man fail of
the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up
trouble you, and
thereby many be defiled."



Regardless of what we've
done in our pasts, whether it be an
abortion, fornication, or some gross and embarrassing sin,
it's vital that we
forgive ourself from everything in our pasts that we are
ashamed of. If God
chose to forget our sins for His sake, then I think we ought
to do the same:



Isaiah 43:25, "I, even
I, am he that blotteth out thy
transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy
sins."



God's Word says that He
has actually removed our sins from
us! If we continually beat up on ourselves, it's known
as false guilt, and is a
tool of the enemy to pull us down. If we still associate
ourselves with our
sinful past, then we need to change the way we see things...
why? Because the
way we are thinking does not line up with what God's
Word has to say.



Psalms 103:12, "As far
as the east is from the west, so
far hath he removed our transgressions from
us."



When we associate ourselves
with our past failures, after
God's Word has assured us that they have been removed
from us... then do you
realize that you aren't really believing what God's
Word is saying? It's time
that we make that choice to forgive ourselves, and then
align our thinking with
what God's Word has to say. If God says it's removed
from us, then we need to
take Him for His Word, and believe what it has to
say!



If this teaching has
ministered to you, My Name Is Senior
Pastora Dr. Diana Brevan @ Jesus Is Lord Fellowship WWI
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