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Feeling inferior? Battling low self-esteem? You are God’s masterpiece, hand designed by Him. Stop looking at your weaknesses, your faults and failures. You are incredible and you serve a God who doesn’t make junk. He sees you with total love and He created you with value that the world can’t take away!

When the disciples asked Jesus how they could do the works of God, He said their work was to BELIEVE on Him. The kingdom of God just doesn’t make sense to us. Too much of the time, we want to DO the things of God instead of BE with the One who loves us dearly, building a relationship where we sit and hear his directions before we jump and run! As we sit with Him and He begins to reveal where He’s working, that’s when we need to bump our believing to “expecting”! Faith walks ahead of what it can see with the natural eye. Faith moves into excitement knowing that what we’re believing for is on the way. It’s great to believe God and then move to a place where you start to expect! You’re watching and waiting for the answer to appear! When I order a pizza, I have faith that it’s going to be delivered in a short amount of time. Once I place that order, then I move to “expectation”. I’m at the window, turning on the porch light, watching like a hawk. I HAVE even been known to chase down the driver when he missed…

God’s clock is way different than the one we use! If you’ve ever had to wait on God, you know He seems to way till the very last second before making a move. And from our perspective, the last second seems “way too late”. Let’s face it, His timing is perfect but we have to get a little further down the road to figure that out! For now, we’ll just accept it by faith.

Whatever you’re going through today, I want you to remind you of a verse in Psalm 118:24…”This is the day that the Lord has made: I will rejoice and be glad in it!” You may be thinking that it’s a little difficult to go around rejoicing when you just don’t feel like it. For some of you it’s difficult to praise God because you find yourself “dwelling” in a place of REGRET, always looking back and wishing you could change what you said, what you did, and the choices you made. Regret has a way of always messing up TODAY! It’s like a black cloud that hangs over us all the time. So…it’s time to move to a new dwelling place. You can’t change what happened. It’s done, finished, OVER! God has laid out this amazing day ahead of you. It’s full of all kinds of opportunities to grow, to laugh, to see the wonderful gifts that He has given you. Now you may be thinking that I don’t know what it’s like to regret something. Oh, yes I do. But I learned the hard way that if I stayed in that place and rehearsed the regrets over and over…

Perfection will wear you out…Trying to be the perfect spouse, parent, friend or employee is exhausting. We end every day wishing we could have done more, regretting what we did that wasn’t quite up to “our standards” or regretting what we didn’t do. Unfortunately, we also carry that need for perfection over to our spiritual life. Always striving but never attaining causes nothing but stress and feelings of guilt. You and I are a work in progress. We will have successes and failures but both are taking us to the place God has planned for us. Relax! God is on your side!

Let’s talk about labels! All kinds of things have labels…designer clothes, cans in the supermarket, even tennis shoes and handbags and that’s just to name a few. The one thing that should never have a label is people! The world loves to stick “labels” on us according to how it judges our “condition”: stupid, failure, defeated, broke, crazy, disorganized and the list goes on and on. Do you know that labels are lies that the enemy sends your way to bring you down and keep you down. But God doesn’t look at us that way! He sees what we CAN be not what we are or what we were. Thank Heaven for that!! Remember Gideon? He was hiding from the Midianites in the bottom of a winepress and God called him O Mighty Man of Valor. Nobody would have called him mighty. He was a coward! But then, that’s a label and God doesn’t like labels. God will always call you by your POSITION and your position is Son or Daughter of the Most High God…Child of the King…and in that “position”, you are joint heirs with Jesus. You, my friend, are living in a kingdom with kingdom rights and…