EXCERPTS FROM THE MESSAGE
⇒ Birthdays are beyond the date you were born, but a celebration of the reason you were born.
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Birthdays are more than celebrating a day set aside to commemorate when you were born. The true essence of birthdays is celebrating the reason for which you were sent.
⇒ The Concept of Value:
Your value is measured by your ability to solve problems, meet needs, provide solutions, and answer questions. (Genesis 28:1-2; Proverbs 4:1-13; 2 Peter 1:10; 1 Timothy 4:15)
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To be valuable is your capacity to solve problems, meet needs, provide solutions, and your ability to answer questions.
⇒ What It Means To Be Valuable:
To be valuable is your ability to solve problems, meet needs, provide solutions, and answer questions.
A man is valuable to the degree to which he sustains the ability to solve problems, meet needs, provide solutions, and answer questions.
⇒ Value is also measured by the index of widespread desirability. When a sufficient number of people desire a thing, it becomes valuable.
⇒ In the Kingdom, nothing has an intrinsic, independent value, whether a person, a thing, a product, a program, or an idea.
This means in the Kingdom, value is derived in respect to that thing aligning itself with the will of God, or serving His program.
⇒ Nothing really has an intrinsic independent value. In the Kingdom, value is only derived in respect to the ability of that thing or person aligning with the will of God and serving His programme.
⇒ In the kingdom, nothing has an intrinsic, independent value. Value is only derived to the degree to which you are aligned with God’s will and purpose.
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When a Believer says they’re valuable, their lives have become a drink offering poured out to the glory of God.
⇒ Value is not intrinsic; it is derived. When a believer says, “I am valuable,” it goes beyond skills and the capacity to provide solutions.
“I am valuable” for the believer means I have found a way to invest my life as a seed, investing myself in God’s program, and that my life is like a drink offering poured out.
⇒ One concept many believers have not yet fully understood is the far-reaching implications of properly defining and continually redefining value. Until your understanding of value is accurate, your pursuit of relevance will remain incomplete.
⇒ Anything that cannot directly serve the purposes and glory of God, is in fact valueless.
When you say you’re valuable, take your eyes away from your cars, mansions, accomplishments and achievements. Recognise their presence, but do not derive your confidence from their existence.
⇒ It is easy to feel unfulfilled because of the absence of things in your life. However, the fact that your life can serve The Lord and His purposes should be your greatest source of confidence, not the things you do not have. The fact that our lives can serve the Lord
⇒ No one has the right to make another person feel worthless simply because they possess greater influence, wealth, or status. Kingdom greatness does not oppress people; it lifts them.
⇒ Feeling valuable must go beyond acquiring things. It must be because you are connected to Jesus, and that your life, mind, skills, time, resources, and everything about you is devoted to the program of God and invested in building the program of God. If you assume this orientation, you will be a winner.
⇒ Living an impactful life is not something only you know; there are indices to measure it.
Whose life changed because you came? Because you gave? Because you preached?
Who is changing? What is changing, improving, and growing because of your presence?
⇒ Impact is the ability of your presence and your contribution to leave people, places, things, and situations better than you met them.
Every time you appear somewhere, your life should introduce improvement. Your presence should carry the power to elevate people, tra
⇒ Don’t wait till you board a plane to feel valuable.
Don’t wait till you have money in your account to feel valuable.
Don’t wait till you have children to feel valuable.
Don’t wait till you have a high-paying job to feel valuable.
Once someone knows Jesus because of you, a child returns to school because of you, someone feeds well because of you, you are valuable.
Declare one more time: I AM VALUABLE!
