Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Knowing you matter and were made with purpose

Its been a few years now that I have been trying to put together my life mess and make it a message, slowly its being put together but not in my time but in his time. It started with God working in me and healing my heart, leading me to know that I am valuable that while we are all broken he sees me perfectly and he has greater plans than my mind can dream up. So a few months ago I began to search the bible for verses that applied to me, my story and my life. So that I can sort out my mess and put it all together. So I put focus on the fact that all this I had went through from being molested at the age of 6 by neighbor boys to failed relationships, abusive relationships, drug and alcohol addictions and giving my body up for free to beginning to know that this was not all in vain and that I was made for a purpose and not to be a ragdoll of any man that walked into my life. I had purpose!!! So I wanted to see what the bible had to say so I began to look up scripture and this is what I found. Jeremiah 29:11 For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Acts 26:16 But arise and stand upon your feet; for I have appeared to you for this purpose, that I might appoint you to serve as [My] minister and to bear witness both to what you have seen of Me and to that in which I will appear to you, Proverbs 16:9 In their hearts humans plan their course,but the Lord establishes their steps. Ephesians 2:1-10 As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, 2 in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient. 3 All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our flesh[a] and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature deserving of wrath. 4 But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, 5 made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved. 6 And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, 7 in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus. 8 For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— 9 not by works, so that no one can boast. 10 For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. With us celebrating the resurrection of Chirst during this season it leads me even more now than ever to realize how much I matter, would God give his only Son for someone who doesn't matter? Christ died on the cross for my sins, beat brutally all at the cost of my sins and the sins of the word and not so that I carry them with me. SO that I may live freely from the pain of my past, and so how could one go on and not submit and surrender their all and use their life to exalt his name. You must know that it doesn't matter where you have been or what you have done but that you MATTER, your life has purpose so much purpose that God gave his Son so that you may live out that PURPOSE!!

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