"You see my anxious heart you see what I am feeling and when I fall apart You are there to hold me how great Your love for me"

God created all of us for a purpose. Exactly the way he created us is exactly what He wants us to be. However, because of the way other people have perceived us we have become jaded, and have changed. The words people say to us are not meant to change us but they do. Words are a powerful thing. Words can uplift and encourage a person or they can bring a person down and make them feel lousy about themself. If somebody were to ask you "how do you define self worth?" What would your answer be? I have two more questions for you 1. Are you glad you are you? 2. Do you have a healthy sense of selfworth? To God you are perfect just the way you are. It doesn't matter what anybody else have ever said. It doesn't matter what your relatives have ever told you. It definitely doesn't matter what your classmates and coworkers over the years have ever said. We become miserable when we perceive our lives to have no value, no purpose, or no significance. God tells us in His word that we are so significant to Him that He always keeps an eye on us.

"Surely you desire truth in the inner parts; you teach me wisdom in the inmost place."

Psalm 51:6

God wants us to be open and honest with him about all of our emotions not just the pleasant ones. God desires truth and honesty at the deepest level and wants us to experience His love, foregiveness, and power in all areas of our lives. Experiencing His love doesn't mean all of our thoughts, emotions, and behaviors will be pleasant and pure. It means we can be real, feeling pain and joy, love and anger, confidence and confusion.

"The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full."

John 10:10

God wants us to live our life to the fullest. Living an abundant life however does not mean that it will be a problem free life. Life itself is a series of problems that often act as obstacles to our search for significance, and the abundant life is the experience of God's love, forgiveness, and power in the midst of these problems. Our fulfillment in this life depends not on our skills to avoid life's problems but on our ability to apply God's specidific solutions to those problems. An accurate understanding of God's truth is the first step toward discovering significance and worth. An accurate biblical self concept contains both strength and humility, both sorrow over sin and joy about forgiveness,a deep sense of our need for God's grace and a deep sense of the reality of God's grace.

It is vital for us to understand that this hunger for self worth is God given and can only be satisfied by Him. Our value is not dependent on our ability to earn the acceptance of people, but rather, its true source is the love and acceptance of God. HE created you and me. Only he knows how to fulfill ALL our needs!!!!

Do you know how amazing you are?!?! Do you know God has an amazing plan for you?!?!?

You say love is just a word just four letters in a row

God has placed a person on this earth for each and every one of us. He knows when and where we will meet that person. He knows when we will be ready for that person to come into our life. Just because we may have never had any dating relationships in our life growing up does not necessarily mean that God is going to calling a person to be single. It just means that we haven't met that person yet. We have to come to a point in life where we can say to God "I am ready for you to show me who you have for me, and for it to be for your glory." God can reveal that person to you literally anywhere. You could meet that person on a dance floor at a bar, at a convenient store, in class, the possibilities are endless. The person God puts on this earth for us does not have to meet up with the standards of anybody else besides you and God. People may not understand what you see in a person. But, 10 years later you may look back and be a totally different family than when you first met that person. A person may be a person who likes to party in college, and 10 years later may be a person who God has changed dramatically. That same person who was a partier in college may grow into a person who is passionate about his or her family, a person who is a spiritual mentor to everyone around them, and even leading in ways and places that 10 years ago they may have never thought of leading.

Don't ever sell yourself short or settle for anything less than what God has in store for you. God made each and every one of you with an amazing plan for your life. "

"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."

Jeremiah 29:11

"Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self seeking, it is not easily arranged, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres."

1 Corinthians 13:4-7

I know God has somebody absolutely amazing for me, and until recently I had pretty much given up and had decided that God was going to call me to be single. I do not believe that now though, God has still not shown me who He intends to be my partner. He is still preparing both of us. I look forward to the day when God will put him in my life and change my life forever.

Have you given up? Do you have the desire to have a partner to walk with you through all of God's decisions? I ask you not to give up, you never know what you will miss if you do. By giving up, you might even miss an opportunity for God to show you that person.