Thread: Your self worth doesn't depend on anyone!!!
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Your self worth doesn't depend on anyone!!!
Posted : 29 Jul, 2014 02:19 AM
�Self-worth could very well, possibly be a lifetime lesson. I am 36 years old and honestly, I�ve really just started learning the importance of this 2 years ago.�
~~Self worth = self-respect = love~~
Many of today�s role models in entertainment are promoting this to young women:
�The shorter the shorts, the better and the lower the cleavage the better.�
�Seven-inch platform heels are hot, strippers are cool, and twerking is sexy.�
Like this is what will get someone�s attention. This makes you sexy and sexy is important. Sexy is what gets the man. Women are still fighting the conditioning that says you�re nothing without a man�
No wonder so many young women are confused and have a skewed view on what it means to have a good sense of self worth and what its means to love and value yourself.
�I spent years in dysfunctional relationships, where I gave up my self-respect and my sense of self-worth for the sake of �love.� I kept my thoughts to myself and stifled them inside for the sake of �love.� I allowed myself to be belittled and demeaned. But what�s wrong with that? I wanted to love to work��
A partner will not fill the void�well, maybe temporarily, but if that�s what you�re seeking from your partner, they will never live up to your expectation.
Seeking love from outside sources will ultimately distance us further from ourselves and from dealing with our real needs. We deserve to be loved because:
We are awesome
Our voice matters
We are worth respect
We are worth having something healthy
We are more than a relationship. We have things to contribute to the world. We are modern women, capable of so much more and we have purpose. So many women get caught up in relationships thinking, �This is it, this will fill this void.� But sweet sister, these voids can only be filled by God and He will teach you how to love yourself and respect yourself!
�In the midst of my dysfunctional relationships, I developed anxiety issues. My low sense of self-worth metamorphosed into obsessive-compulsive order/addiction.�
�I called psychics, thinking this would help me maintain control.�
�I wanted to prevent myself from having to experience my emptiness, my rejection, my uncertainty, and my self-loathing. I just did not love myself to think I was worth any better. Over about nine years, it spiraled out of control until I could no longer continue stifling my emotions. Jesus saved me, completely, and totally�and took away the shame.�
ADDICTION is a funny thing. It�s super common. It can manifest in many forms�drugs, alcohol, gambling, workaholism, shopping, Internet, plastic surgery, sex�you name it�.
SOME ADDICTIONS IN THE US:
-23.5 million �.drug & alcohol
-6.5 million�. gambling
-30 million �..compulsive shopping
-10% of US population�.workaholism
The root of all addiction is a deep feeling of emptiness caused by suppression of feelings, both unresolved and stifled.
Addiction provides a TEMPORARY relief�a way of attempting to regulate your emotions without properly dealing with the issue or burden at hand�
Numbing or distracting yourself by compulsively doing something to avoid dealing, can be the RESULT of or CAUSE of any one of the following, if not all of them: disconnection, anxiety, low self-esteem, and intimacy problems
We neglect to learn how really special we are without someone. I never got it. Now I am learning confidence, self-esteem and self-worth. Reflecting back, I can see that I somehow thought only another person could fix me, fix the emptiness� And the truth is they never do.
JUST ANOTHER REASON WE NEED GOD! To break the outer man and HEAL and REVEAL the true inner man. He wants to do work INSIDE of you!
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When we become followers of Christ we need to let our truth come from Gods word,the Holy Bible.
God tells us who we because Christ lives in us. I found this for you! Its awesome! Enjoy and blessings.
Knowing Who I Am in Christ
Not sure who you really are? Read this list of Biblical truths that reveal who God made you to be.
I am complete in Him Who is the Head of all principality and power (Colossians 2:10).
I am alive with Christ (Ephesians 2:5).
I am free from the law of sin and death (Romans 8:2).
I am far from oppression, and fear does not come near me (Isaiah 54:14).
I am born of God, and the evil one does not touch me (1 John 5:18).
I am holy and without blame before Him in love (Ephesians 1:4; 1 Peter 1:16).
I have the mind of Christ (1 Corinthians 2:16; Philippians 2:5).
I have the peace of God that passes all understanding (Philippians 4:7).
I have the Greater One living in me; greater is He Who is in me than he who is in the world (1 John 4:4).
I have received the gift of righteousness and reign as a king in life by Jesus Christ (Romans 5:17).
I have received the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Jesus, the eyes of my understanding being enlightened (Ephesians 1:17-18).
I have received the power of the Holy Spirit to lay hands on the sick and see them recover, to cast out demons, to speak with new tongues. I have power over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means harm me (Mark 16:17-18; Luke 10:17-19).
I have put off the old man and have put on the new man, which is renewed in the knowledge after the image of Him Who created me (Colossians 3:9-10).
I have given, and it is given to me; good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over, men give into my bosom (Luke 6:38).
I have no lack for my God supplies all of my need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus (Philippians 4:19).
I can quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one with my shield of faith (Ephesians 6:16).
I can do all things through Christ Jesus (Philippians 4:13).
I show forth the praises of God Who has called me out of darkness into His marvelous light (1 Peter 2:9).
I am God�s child for I am born again of the incorruptible seed of the Word of God, which lives and abides forever (1 Peter 1:23).
I am God�s workmanship, created in Christ unto good works (Ephesians 2:10).
I am a new creature in Christ (2 Corinthians 5:17).
I am a spirit being alive to God (Romans 6:11;1 Thessalonians 5:23).
I am a believer, and the light of the Gospel shines in my mind (2 Corinthians 4:4).
I am a doer of the Word and blessed in my actions (James 1:22,25).
I am a joint-heir with Christ (Romans 8:17).
I am more than a conqueror through Him Who loves me (Romans 8:37).
I am an overcomer by the blood of the Lamb and the word of my testimony (Revelation 12:11).
I am a partaker of His divine nature (2 Peter 1:3-4).
I am an ambassador for Christ (2 Corinthians 5:20).
I am part of a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a purchased people (1 Peter 2:9).
I am the righteousness of God in Jesus Christ (2 Corinthians 5:21).
I am the temple of the Holy Spirit; I am not my own (1 Corinthians 6:19).
I am the head and not the tail; I am above only and not beneath (Deuteronomy 28:13).
I am the light of the world (Matthew 5:14).
I am His elect, full of mercy, kindness, humility, and longsuffering (Romans 8:33; Colossians 3:12).
I am forgiven of all my sins and washed in the Blood (Ephesians 1:7).
I am delivered from the power of darkness and translated into God�s kingdom (Colossians 1:13).
I am redeemed from the curse of sin, sickness, and poverty (Deuteronomy 28:15-68; Galatians 3:13).
I am firmly rooted, built up, established in my faith and overflowing with gratitude (Colossians 2:7).
I am called of God to be the voice of His praise (Psalm 66:8; 2 Timothy 1:9).
I am healed by the stripes of Jesus (Isaiah 53:5; 1 Peter 2:24).
I am raised up with Christ and seated in heavenly places (Ephesians 2:6; Colossians 2:12).
I am greatly loved by God (Romans 1:7; Ephesians 2:4; Colossians 3:12; 1 Thessalonians 1:4).
I am strengthened with all might according to His glorious power (Colossians 1:11).
I am submitted to God, and the devil flees from me because I resist him in the Name of Jesus (James 4:7).
I press on toward the goal to win the prize to which God in Christ Jesus is calling us upward (Philippians 3:14).
For God has not given us a spirit of fear; but of power, love, and a sound mind (2 Timothy 1:7).
It is not I who live, but Christ lives in me (Galatians 2:20).
I might see what you did there, Hiddeninhim. Is that your way of saying that our self-worth should depend on Jesus, rather than saying that it doesn't depend on anyone?
I posted scripture that tells us who we are as followers of Christ. We are reborn into Gods kingdom and Christ lives in us so our worth should reflect on what God has to say as opposed to what others say or even what we may say to ourselves.
