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4. The baggage of
self-esteem

5. Problem #1 – Too much self-esteem
Don’t think you are better than you really are. Be honest in your evaluation of yourselves, measuring yourselves by the faith God has given us.
-Romans 12:3 (NLT)

6. Beware of an overly grandiose sense of self:
"God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble."
-James 4:6
“Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall.”
·Proverbs 16:18

7. Great advice:
This is what the LORD says: "Let not the wise man boast of his wisdom or the strong man boast of his strength or the rich man boast of his riches, but let him who boasts boast about this: that he understands and knows me, that I am the LORD, who exercises kindness, justice and righteousness on earth, for in these I delight," declares the LORD.
-Jeremiah 9:23-24 (NIV)

8. Too little self-esteem
Problem #2 –
Too little self-esteem

9. The other messages I started hearing:
You aren’t good

10. The other messages I started hearing:
You aren’t good
You aren’t lovable

11. The other messages I started hearing:
You aren’t good
You aren’t lovable

12. The other messages I started hearing:
You aren’t good
You aren’t lovable
You aren’t talented

13. The other messages I started hearing:
You aren’t good
You aren’t lovable
You aren’t talented
You aren’t attractive

14. The other messages I started hearing:
You aren’t good
You aren’t lovable
You aren’t talented
You aren’t attractive
You won’t amount to anything

15. The other messages I started hearing:
You aren’t good
You aren’t lovable
You aren’t talented
You aren’t attractive
You won’t amount to anything
You don’t wear or have the right stuff

16. The other messages I started hearing:
You aren’t good
You aren’t lovable
You aren’t talented
You aren’t attractive
You won’t amount to anything
You don’t wear or have the right stuff
You don’t fit in

17. The other messages I started hearing:
You aren’t good
You aren’t lovable
You aren’t talented
You aren’t attractive
You won’t amount to anything
You don’t wear or have the right stuff
You don’t fit in
You aren’t ____________________!

18. What we come to believe:
“Before tattoo on body, tattoo on mind.”

19. God’s view vs. our view:
The angel of the LORD appeared to him and said, “Mighty hero, the LORD is with you!” …Then the LORD turned to him and said, “Go with the strength you have, and rescue Israel from the Midianites. I am sending you!” “But Lord,” Gideon replied, “how can I rescue Israel? My clan is the weakest in the whole tribe of Manasseh, and I am the least in my entire family!” The LORD said to him, “I will be with you. And you will destroy the Midianites as if you were fighting against one man.”
-Judges 6:12-14, 16 (NLT)

20. “A healthy self-image is seeing yourself the way God sees you-no more, no less.”
- Josh McDowell

21. You ARE who God says you are!”
A true statement:
“You are NOT who others think you are. You are NOT who you think you are.
You ARE who God says you are!”

22. Who does God say you are?
1) You are wonderfully made.

23. You are the high point of His creation:
God said, “Let us make human beings in our image, to be like ourselves.” …God looked over all he had made, and he saw that it was very good!
-Genesis 1:26a, 31a (NLT)

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25. We are His masterpieces and He loves us so:
You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body and knit me together in my mother’s womb. Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex! Your workmanship is marvelous—how well I know it. You watched me as I was being formed in utter seclusion, as I was woven together in the dark of the womb. You saw me before I was born. Every day of my life was recorded in your book…

26. We are His masterpieces and He loves us so:
Every moment was laid out before a single day had passed. How precious are your thoughts about me, O God. They cannot be numbered! I can’t even count them; they outnumber the grains of sand! And when I wake up, you are still with me!
-Psalm 139:13-18 (NLT)

27. Who does God say you are? 1) You are wonderfully made.
2) You are incredibly valuable.

28. God was willing to pay any price for you:
For you know that God paid a ransom to save you from the empty life you inherited from your ancestors. And the ransom he paid was not mere gold or silver. It was the precious blood of Christ, the sinless, spotless Lamb of God.
- 1 Peter 1:18-19 (NLT)

29. Who does God say you are? 1) You are wonderfully made.
2) You are incredibly valuable.
3) You are unconditionally loved.

30. God loved you long before you knew you needed His love:
"… the proof of God’s amazing love is this: that it was while we were sinners that Christ died for us."
-Romans 5:8 (Phillips)

31. You can count on His faithfulness and covenantal love:
“The mountains may move and the hills disappear, but even then my faithful love for you will remain. My covenant of blessing will never be broken,” says the Lord, who has mercy on you.
-Isaiah 54:10 (NLT)

32. You can be confident of His unfailing love:
…nothing can ever separate us from God’s love. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow—not even the powers of hell can separate us from God’s love. No power in the sky above or in the earth below—indeed, nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate us from the love of God that is revealed in Christ Jesus our Lord.
-Romans 8:38-39 (NLT)

33. Have you responded to His love yet?
God showed how much he loved us by sending his one and only Son into the world so that we might have eternal life through him. This is real love—not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as a sacrifice to take away our sins.
-1 John 4:9-10 (NLT)