The Truth About Worthlessness

"The Father approves of me"

1. I am handmade.
*Ps 139:14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;your works are wonderful, I know that full well.

2. I am important and valuable.
*John 15:15-17 You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit…

*Deut 32:10 10 In a desert land he found him, in a barren and howling waste. He shielded him and cared for him; he guarded him as the apple of his eye.

*Eph 2:10 For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.

3. I am precious and honored in the eyes of my Father.
*Isa 43:4 Since you are precious and honored in my sight, and because I love you…

*Isa 49:5 …for I am honored in the eyes of the LORD and my God has been my strength.

4. My life has a purpose.
*2 Cor 5:19-21 And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. We are therefore Christ's ambassadors…

5. I am a unique creation of the Father. In all the world there's no one else like me.
*Ps 119:73 Your hands made me and formed me; give me understanding to learn your commands.

6. I am loved and treasured by the Creator of the universe.
*Jer 31:3 The LORD appeared to us in the past, saying: "I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with loving-kindness.

7. The Father loves me completely, thoroughly, and perfectly. There's nothing I can do to add or detract from that love.
*Isa 54:10 Though the mountains be shaken and the hills be removed, yet my unfailing love for you will not be shaken nor my covenant of peace be removed, "says the LORD, who has compassion on you.

*2 Tim 1:8-10 Our Lord… has saved us and called us to a holy life-not because of anything we have done but because of his own purpose and grace. This grace was given us in Christ Jesus before the beginning of time,

*1 John 3:1-2 How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are!

8. The Father celebrates my life! He delights in me. The Father celebrates my life! He delights in me.
*Zeph 3:17 The LORD your God is with you, he is mighty to save. He will take great delight in you, he will quiet you with his love, he will rejoice over you with singing."

*Isa 62:5 5 … as a bridegroom rejoices over his bride, so will your God rejoice over you.

*Ps 18:19 He brought me out into a spacious place; he rescued me because he delighted in me.

9. My Father loves me just as much as He loves his son, Jesus.
*John 17:23 May they be brought to complete unity to let the world know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me .

10. I have the Father's “stamp of approval”.
*John 6:27 Do not work for food that spoils, but for food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. On him God the Father has placed his seal of approval.'