I wasn't planning on making another post so soon. God has other things in his plan. When he speaks, I listen. So here's what happened:
I finished the last post, got my homework done, pureed pumpkin to take to a friend tomorrow, got the kids showered and in bed. I laid in there watching The Bible on netflix via my tablet. I just couldn't quite get relaxed into it tonight. So with sleeping children in the house, I went in for a relaxing hot bath. Normally this will calm me right? Well, as I lay there in the hot water, conditioner in my hair, I heard these words, "YOU are more PRECIOUS than RUBIES" and I knew that the Lord was telling me the truth for my next lie!
Lie #2: I am an unlovable, worthless person.
TRUTH: Proverbs 3: 15-- She is more precious than jewels and nothing you desire can compare with her.
Proverbs 31:10-- An excellent wife who can find? She is FAR more precious than jewels.
1 Peter 1: 7-- so that the tested genuineness of your faith-- more precious than gold that perishes though it is tested by fire-- may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
For this one I needed to break down more than one word, really for myself, because I was interested in the hebrew for each word.
Precious means of great value, not to be wasted or treated carelessly.
The hebrew word is yaqar. It means to be precious, prized, appraised, costly valued.
jewel-- a precious stone, typically a single crystal or a piece of a hard lustrous or translucent mineral cut into shape with flat facets or smoothed and polished for use as an ornament.
the hebrew word heder is a masculine noun meaning jewel, an ornament, adornment splendor.
To prove this was a lie, the Lord was telling me that I am more precious than jewels. I am an ornament, I am precious. I am of great value. I am not to be wasted. I am not to be treated carelessly. I am prized. I am appraised. I am of costly value. Wow how humbling is that? When you are feeling down on yourself, feeling worthless, remember that to God you are of GREAT value. You are the love of HIS life. You were so valuable that he gave you a job to do. He sent you to earth with a purpose to fill. You are valuable!
This was so very humbling for me because for years I have believed the lie from the enemy that I am worthless. This I can say with authority in Jesus Christ is a lie! It is not true. Each and every one of us are made unique. God made us unique to fulfill a purpose and if we were not valuable He wouldn't have called us for the purpose he has called upon us to fulfill. The Lord has a plan for my life just like he has a plan for yours.
Lord,
I come to you tonight humbly thanking you for speaking so clearly to me tonight. Father, I know that I am valuable. I am precious. I am like a ruby. I should be shined and showed off not thrown in the closet and hidden. I am yours Lord! Mold me and make me like the refiner refines gold. Like the potter works clay. Thank you Lord for your blessings. I pray now for anyone who may see this tonight, tomorrow, years down the road. I pray that you would bring this posting to them when they are in their darkest hour. I pray that it would speak to them just like you spoke to me. I am a daughter of the King! I am a precious princess. Thank you Jesus!
Amen.
I finished the last post, got my homework done, pureed pumpkin to take to a friend tomorrow, got the kids showered and in bed. I laid in there watching The Bible on netflix via my tablet. I just couldn't quite get relaxed into it tonight. So with sleeping children in the house, I went in for a relaxing hot bath. Normally this will calm me right? Well, as I lay there in the hot water, conditioner in my hair, I heard these words, "YOU are more PRECIOUS than RUBIES" and I knew that the Lord was telling me the truth for my next lie!
Lie #2: I am an unlovable, worthless person.
TRUTH: Proverbs 3: 15-- She is more precious than jewels and nothing you desire can compare with her.
Proverbs 31:10-- An excellent wife who can find? She is FAR more precious than jewels.
1 Peter 1: 7-- so that the tested genuineness of your faith-- more precious than gold that perishes though it is tested by fire-- may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
For this one I needed to break down more than one word, really for myself, because I was interested in the hebrew for each word.
Precious means of great value, not to be wasted or treated carelessly.
The hebrew word is yaqar. It means to be precious, prized, appraised, costly valued.
jewel-- a precious stone, typically a single crystal or a piece of a hard lustrous or translucent mineral cut into shape with flat facets or smoothed and polished for use as an ornament.
the hebrew word heder is a masculine noun meaning jewel, an ornament, adornment splendor.
To prove this was a lie, the Lord was telling me that I am more precious than jewels. I am an ornament, I am precious. I am of great value. I am not to be wasted. I am not to be treated carelessly. I am prized. I am appraised. I am of costly value. Wow how humbling is that? When you are feeling down on yourself, feeling worthless, remember that to God you are of GREAT value. You are the love of HIS life. You were so valuable that he gave you a job to do. He sent you to earth with a purpose to fill. You are valuable!
This was so very humbling for me because for years I have believed the lie from the enemy that I am worthless. This I can say with authority in Jesus Christ is a lie! It is not true. Each and every one of us are made unique. God made us unique to fulfill a purpose and if we were not valuable He wouldn't have called us for the purpose he has called upon us to fulfill. The Lord has a plan for my life just like he has a plan for yours.
Lord,
I come to you tonight humbly thanking you for speaking so clearly to me tonight. Father, I know that I am valuable. I am precious. I am like a ruby. I should be shined and showed off not thrown in the closet and hidden. I am yours Lord! Mold me and make me like the refiner refines gold. Like the potter works clay. Thank you Lord for your blessings. I pray now for anyone who may see this tonight, tomorrow, years down the road. I pray that you would bring this posting to them when they are in their darkest hour. I pray that it would speak to them just like you spoke to me. I am a daughter of the King! I am a precious princess. Thank you Jesus!
Amen.
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