Truth Tuesday
When I consider the work of His fingers I need to consider myself and how important I am to Him.
Psalm Study
Today’s study questions were emailed at 3:00 am this morning. Please let me know if you did not get them. The questions for previous lessons are now archived on the Study Questions page under Psalm Study.
RTW Teaching
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RTW Teaching, February 21, 2012
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Dear Wendy – another great reminder to see ourselves created in God’s image and not anyone else’s.
I loved this statement of truth you made: “There is nothing we can do to lose or add to our worth in the eyes of God. No sin, no mistakes, and no failures change how God feels about us. We have worth because we are created in His image. We can not permit our worth to be dictated by our feelings
because let’s face it, we are women and our feelings change more often than we change shoes.”
My area of struggle was in my belief system. I knew it all in my head but I couldnt really believe it was true for ME in my heart. Only God could have transformed my heart and brought about the miraculous change that He did!
I believe that God is who He says He is and I believe that I am who God says I am. And I have never been the same!
With a grateful heart,
Lynne
Lynne, Would you please email today’s questions to me also. I’ve never had a problem before today. Tried everything. Thank you!
I loved to Barbara but I need your email address.
Lynne
Lynne: Well, I guess you did need my email address ~smile~ Sorry about that. However; late last night I was finally able to open the Study Questions. Thank you for being so kind to offer your help, though. Have a blessed-day!
Barbara
This is the first this has happened to me, I’m getting an error page when I access the questions today, then a message that says this page cant be displayed on the other link.
ok never mind , They came thru the second time, maybe my pc needed coffee as much as i do
That sounded wrong, I should need Jesus more then Coffee.
I am getting a message and can not excess the study questions. Will somebody please e-mail them to me at luann.bell.1@juno.com. Thank you!!
Luann – I just emailed them to you.
Blessings, Lynne
I am getting a message and can not pull up the study questions. Will somebody please e-mail them to me at luann.bell.1@juno.com. Thank you!!
Oh how I long to rid myself of that feeling of lack of self-worth!! It seems to be a constant struggle for me – no matter how successful I may be professionally or what I achieve personally.
My truth is related to this topic – to know that God loves me no matter how many times I make a mistake, even if its the same mistake repeatedly…
By the way, I noticed that the scripture referenced in the Study questions is actually supposed to be Genesis 1:27 (not 1:28).
Happy Tuesday ladies!
Nicole
Once again sweet Wendy – thank you for willingly letting God use you to speak directly to my heart. Amazing isn’t it how wonderfully God speaks to us!! The “hers” in my life have always been a problem – and often times the “her” is a very dear friend. Ooooooooo jealousy is such a yucky thing!!!! I struggle so often with the outside image – the good hair, the good body, the good nails (I am a nail biter – 47 years old and still haven’t kicked the habit), good clothes – on the good body, good sense of style, being in the “popular” group (even at church), the “right family” in the right stuff at the right level at the right time. Oh how I could go on and on!! I so need reminders that I am His masterpiece. I have always loved the Sandy Patti song (of course I just love Sandi Patti) Masterpiece and being in Children’s Ministry at my church I am always telling the kiddos what a beautiful masterpiece they are! God made them as a unique, beautiful, loved and blessed work of His own hands! I think this is such a wonderful message but sometimes I need it tatooed to my forehead!!!! Thank you so much for the reminder!
In Christ’s Love
Val
Considering my own worth through the eyes of Jesus is definitely not something I have been doing until very recently. I am currently reading Crazy Love by Francis Chan, which I started in a church-wide Bible study last year, but did not finish the book. I have now read chapter 4, talking about a lukewarm Christian…oh my, how many applied to me, and chapter 5 which then talks about how there are no lukewarm Christians according to the Bible. (Rev 3:15-16 for one example)
What keeps me from being more than lukewarm in my faith? Part of it is this way of judging my own self-worth based on my own opinions, others opinions, and the lies that I let the Enemy whisper in my ear constantly.
Other reasons: fear of sounding like a religious nut, fear of that uncomfortableness that is sometimes experienced when you bring up Jesus or God, thinking I don’t have enough knowledge to share it the “proper” way with others, just being too comfortable in my life as it is. (The devil has been busy with his whispers) When I think of being spit out of Jesus’s mouth for being lukewarm these reasons seem amazingly ridiculous, but they have become so ingrained in me that it is only with great effort that I work to change my thinking.
This, from Monday’s lesson, blew me away: “Satan cannot hear you thinking things but he can hear you speaking things.” I did not know that. And I think how much more powerfully I can change things by speaking them aloud. When I command Satan to flee, thinking it only in my mind, am I really commanding it at all? hm Yes, I will be thinking on this statement a lot.
One more quote I picked up from a local radio personality to help rebuild my thinking, “If your vision for your life isn’t a little daunting for you it’s probably insulting to God.”
Yes, God, I hear you calling me out of comfort zone and through my fears. And I see You giving me the tools to do whatever it is that I need to do. I wish I could say I wasn’t still holding tightly to old thoughts and fears but I see change. Thanks for working through and leading me to this wonderful woman that is providing me with much!
The link to Wendy’s home page did not open for me as access to questions. But the option of “open in another tab” worked fine.
Love-hate computers
Bev
Not sure of the author or group that sings it, but I hear the words to a song I sang in my college choir years ago…”O Lord, O Lord, my God, how majestic is Your name…in all the Earth there is none like You, there is none like You in all the Earth”…those words are so powerful! When I first heard it, I knew I had to present it to the choir. We learned it in one night! It was so magical!!
Wonder how I got to this place of uncertainty when at one time in my life I seemed so rooted…I am so grateful for this ministry and the reminder to go back to the place where I first believed and was so enthusiastic!!! I know I can’t do it on my own…so glad to be surrounded with you girls at this point in my life!!
Wendy I love what you said “Determining our worth by anything other than the truth of what God’s Word says about us discounts the greatness of God’s creativity and reduces the significance of the
sacrifice of His Son.” I had difficulty for many years allowing my past to define who I was. Today I see that God used my past for good, to make me who I am today.