If God is with you, what does it matter what the world says?

We are in this series of messages intended to strengthen us in our search for a healthy life, particularly an emotionally healthy life. I am referring to the secrets that are in the Word of the Lord; They are not secrets, they are principles that God has established in His Word to ensure that we live happy lives, are emotionally healthy people, people who overcome their limitations, overcome difficult circumstances, heal from the wounds of the past. People who reflect beauty and spiritual, emotional harmony that is appropriate to the Kingdom of God.

And we've been going through a series of passages of Scripture and reaffirming these truths, and the next few weeks I see this is going to take us time but you're going to see that, even as we stick to one topic which is the topic from emotional health and a healthy and balanced personality, character and psyche, we are going to be visiting a number of other topics. It will be like a journey through the pages of the Bible that will have applicability to many other dimensions of life but with a tremendously practical application.

Let me tell you that when I prepare a message, my goal is always for the people to take away at least one thing, a truth that allows them to live better and that they can identify something that they can say: you know what? I put this in my pocket, I take it home and I'm going to chew it all week. The purpose is that and I want you to obtain truths that help you live healthy lives.

I have told you many times, right? that when we come to the Kingdom of God we come limping, and some of us even come crawling because we are so wounded and so damaged by everything that life has done to us. And we come to the Kingdom of God to be restored, amen? We come to the Kingdom of God to be healed, we come to be sanctified, we come for the Lord to remove our ties. Break the yoke of the curse of the world and of the flesh, and of sin. Restore us, heal us.

We are like the demoniac of Gadareno who, when he meets Jesus Christ, wanders around the tombs shouting and with shackles, and chains on his hands, beside himself and the Lord comes, heals him, restores him and then we see him later sitting next to the Lord Jesus wanting to go with Him, already in his five senses. And the Lord says to him: No, you know what? Instead of going with Me, go home and to your relatives, and tell them all the good things that God has done in your life.

Do you know that the greatest testimony that we can give to the world is a healthy life in the Lord? to be people who can bounce back from difficulties, people who can overcome tragedies, people who, even though they don't live a perfect life, can nevertheless feel the joy of the Lord in their lives. Who can say like the writer of Habacuc: "That although the fig tree does not blossom and there are no sheep in the fold, we will still rejoice and rejoice in the Lord of our salvation."

And that we know that this world is inherently imperfect but that we still have the power to rise above the circumstances and be people, that when people look at us and see our gaze, they see our smile, our way of speaking, our way of treating to others say: wow, what a healthy person, something good and noble in that person, right?

And what God wants is for us to overcome the distortions of the past. That's why we can't talk about emotional healing or emotionally healthy living if we don't talk about the things that make us sick. To study medicine you also have to study diseases, yes or no? in order to heal someone you have to know what the nature of illnesses is.

And likewise, for us to be able to talk about emotional health, we have to talk about all the things that hurt us, that hurt us through life and how we can overcome it one after another and stock up on the principles and teachings contained in the Word of God to live those healthy lives and for what Christ has said that He wants to do which is life in abundance, and life in abundance becomes a reality in us every day.

And then in the last two or three weeks, we stopped at one of those passages that for me is a wealth of teaching, where we are told to make use of what? of the armor of God. And we saw that the apostle Paul, by pointing out the different parts of a soldier's armor, is already there providing us with advice about what to do when a bad day comes into our life, or when we look back and see many bad days that we have gone through and that they have hurt us in our emotional life, and have contaminated our spirit and our mind, they have filled us with inferiority complex, fears, anxieties, pain, depression, deformations; listen to me I'm getting depressed already mentioning so many things, but we have armor that we can use when these pollutants and these pains come into our lives.

And we saw that each one of them: justice, truth, the Gospel of reconciliation with God, the sword of faith, living life by faith, the Word of God that advises us how to fight effectively and live effectively. All these elements help us to overcome and to live above the circumstances and the fights, and the struggles of our lives.

Now, leaving that aside, I want to continue with another principle, I want to isolate another principle that is going to be a great blessing for our life and it is the following: for us to live truly healthy lives it is important that we have an internal conviction about the following : that I have value because God loves me, and not because people appreciate me or love me, or because everything is going well around me. Regardless of the circumstances or the opinion of others, the fact that God knows me, loves me and has me as his son or daughter, that is enough for me to feel valuable or important in the world.

I do not have to depend on what others say about me, the question is: what does God say about me, what does God think of me? I do not have to be perfect either physically or in my circumstances to feel loved, desired, valued, important because my God gives me value in himself, because God knows me, I am His son. He gave His Son Jesus Christ for me.

A passage comes to mind that I did not have in mind but that I point out to you, Romans chapter 8, right? because the Bible invites us to see ourselves that way, to see what God says and what God is. Quickly, a little second and I'm going to get it right now.

"What then shall we say to this, if God is with us, who against us?" In other words, understand: if God loves me, if God is with me, if God values me, what does it matter what the world says? What does it matter what others think? what matters to me is what God thinks of me. What's more, I say that the more one grows in the Gospel, one doesn't care what one thinks of oneself, you know? because many times our mind is full of complexes and deforming thoughts, and we are full of fear, and criticism about ourselves, we grew up in an environment where we were criticized, attacked, we were not affirmed and our mind already what sees is condemnation when we see ourselves.

Sometimes we come from churches where everything is sin and condemnation and ours is already full, we see the devil even in the soup, everything is bad, everything is, and then we can no longer even trust our own mind, what our mind tells us . Do you know that sometimes you are so depressed that you don't even have to pay attention to what you are feeling or thinking? because if you pay attention to what you are thinking you are going to hang from a beam in the house at some point.

I have heard of Christian psychologists. I once read about a man, a very powerful servant of God, he wrote one of the most powerful books on spiritual warfare, Dr. Walter Martin perhaps, now I forget his name, the one who wrote this book on spiritual warfare; eh no, it's fine, don't worry (laughs). What he says is that this man, under a very great spiritual attack, became so depressed, he went through such a great spell of depression, that his Christian psychiatrist forbade him to read the Bible for a while because in everything he read in the Bible read condemnation, and it read as if God did not love him, that God did not want him, and the Christian doctor told him: look, stop reading Scripture for a while and heal yourself in other ways.

You may not agree with that, but I understand very well what he meant. Because sometimes the devil can still contaminate your way of seeing the Bible so that instead of seeing blessings what you see is condemnation, because you are in such a fragile state emotionally. And I've learned that sometimes you can't even believe what your eyes see.

Think of an anorexic woman, a young lady who has this problem, do you know they look super fat even though they are skinny? that young lady who has anorexia or bulimia, these diseases that attack that dimension, who don't eat because they look fat or who vomit everything they eat to avoid gaining weight, weigh 80 pounds, many times 90 pounds, and yet when you look at yourself in the mirror, your emotional illness is so serious that you look fat, sisters, even though people see you as skeletons, because your perspective can deceive you even in what you see physically.

And that's why Paul says: you know what? I don't even judge myself. That is why we have to ask the Lord to help us see our life and ourselves through His eyes, not through our physical eyes.

A woman, a man can often have a small defect on his face, and he begins to think about that defect and to say: why did I have to inherit that from my dad or my mom? and this and the other, and it begins to; and you know what? Every time he looks in the mirror, the first thing he sees is the blessed little problem he has. Maybe people don't see it, but by dint of thinking so much about it, it's the first thing that person focuses on and maybe they see a big nose attached to a face. And happy and calm people don't even realize that but you, that's what you see. It's like young adolescents when they have a bump that they have to go to the school party, listen to me, that bump turns into a ten-pound tumor, because you can't trust it, you know?

The world distorts us and distorts our way of seeing ourselves and that is why we have to ask the Lord: Lord, help me to see the world with Your eyes, not through your eyes or even mine and certainly less through the eyes of the world

Christians are sometimes so focused on getting the approval of others, on validating ourselves through our pedigree. There are people who come from a very poor condition and went hungry, and had to work in their countries, they had a complex as children that they were the ones who had broken shoes when they went to school and the children laughed at them, that they had in the hole in the back of their pants, and that deformed them so much that when they reach adulthood they want to overwhelm it by acquiring titles, earning money, dressing absolutely first class, that they call them: don this or engineer such, or this, that because they believe that That way they will chase away the ghosts of the childhood misery they suffered, and you know what? they don't make it.

So their whole life is a search for that insatiable monster that is within them to silence it with titles, with big cars, with a big mansion, then they get into debt, they work excessively, they affect their marriages, they fail more and the devil kills them. It involves more in that network of destruction, because those monsters are not satisfied with everything you throw at them, that is a fire that is not consumed with all the circumstantial water that you want to throw at it, there must be internal healing.

There has to be a moment when you say: you know what? I'm not going to give you more food, you're going to starve because I'm not going to give you more. I am worth because God loves me, I am worth because I am valuable in myself, because Christ died on the cross of Calvary, not because of what people say.

The Bible says: "He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all, how will he not also give us all things with him?" Listen to me if God loved you enough to give His only begotten Son, wow, that means he loves you too much, and if the King of the universe loves you, what does it matter to you that a tadpole out there on the street doesn't love you and don't tell you! If God gives you value, why do you need men to give you value?

You have to think: wow, the most powerful judge of everything beautiful, everything beautiful, everything valuable loves me and values me, what does it matter to me that everyone else doesn't see. You have to fall in love with what God has said about your life. You have to be so focused on God's good and benevolent purposes for you that you don't have time to think about everything that others want, right?

"Who will accuse the chosen of God? God is the one who justifies. Who is the one who will condemn? Christ is the one who died, even more so the one who also rose, the one who is also at the right hand of God, the one who also intercedes for us." Read that entire part so that you understand God's great love for your life and understand that your Dad who created you loves you, values you, uses you and invests in you.

Although your earthly father has not called you, your heavenly Father has good purposes for your life. Although your family life has not been the best, your Creator heals all the wounds in your life and always think about that when you feel small, self-conscious, at the mercy of people, think: I cannot spend my life trying to satisfy to others. The Christian has to be radically focused on his relationship with God.

If you read Scripture from Genesis to Revelation there is a call for us to disconnect from what people think and the value that people place on us, and get so attached to the consideration of: what does God think of me, how does God see me? ? that the other becomes totally irrelevant. I see that radical independence from society and circumstances, and from all events of the past on all the pages of Scripture.

Take, for example, Psalm 56 verse 4, one verse only, that's what I'm saying: when one gets used to looking at the Bible through these lenses of emotional health and the advice that God gives us on how to acquire it, that transforms the way in which we read Scripture.

What does verse 4, Psalm 56, say? "In God I will praise his Word, in God I have trusted" listen to that one: in God, in God, in God, "in God I have trusted, I will not fear; what can man do to me?" Which is the answer? nothing. What can man do to me? tell yourself that every day when you go to work. What can people do who gossip that I am a Christian and that I don't do this, I don't do that? What can man do to me?

And to the young people I say: young people, be independent of what people think, if you want to live, young man, a life in Christ, a powerful life, be a leader, be a person of influence, the first thing you have to do is Stop focusing too much on what your friends say about you. Stop trying to please your friends, they will never like you. One can never please the world enough, indeed, not even in the Church itself.

I tell the brothers: if the little sister looked at you badly or gave you a prophecy that you didn't like when you came forward, forget about it, take two aspirin when you get home and throw it out. There are brothers who stop coming to Church because a little sister did not greet them when they sat next to them. And look, he looked at me like this, and they said this, and in the cell there they told me this and that, they didn't visit me, they didn't bully me, they didn't send me food when I was sick; listen to me, and they lose the joy of the Lord, they stop coming to the Church, then the devil gives them a good blow because they abandoned their protection that they have.

Sometimes we live full of resentment and other things, and other fears because the world kind of controls us. What they do to us, what they tell us, what they don't do to us, if they sent us a birthday card, if they didn't send it, affects us, then we are like a puppet at the mercy of the people. When you come to Church stick to the Lord, stick to Christ.

Now: it is good that we come and worship as a community and as a body, that is true, but also be careful that you do not stick your faith neither to the Pastor nor to the leaders of the Church, nor to the leader of your cell, nor to the sister who seems like a paragon of virtues but you later discover that she is not; cling to the Lord Jesus, get your courage, your joy from Him and glory to God for the rest! That's good if there's harmony and everything, but that shouldn't be what determines your joy in the Lord.

I say that the circumstances of the world and what people think of us have their value, but it is, I told the sisters this morning, like the accessories that the sisters use, accessories, you know? The accessories are the chains, the necklaces, the earrings, right? all these things that sisters and brothers wear too, the little guilloche they have there, I already saw one and even their little earrings they wear today, don't believe it. Those are the accessories right? And the accessories are that.

Why is it called an accessory? because they are like a help. The important thing is that you come dressed because what good is it for you to have many accessories if you come naked (laughs) that's not the idea, is it? the important thing is the suit. And you know what? the Lord is the one who clothes you with His mercy, His goodness, His love, His validation, His authenticity. The rest, the little earring that you wear, the necklace, the guillo, the ring, all that is pretty but it is not what makes you beautiful or beautiful.

Because if you take all that off and take off your makeup and look in the mirror, and that's what made you feel valuable, you're going to be surprised, you're going to suffer greatly. We have to have a realistic attitude about what we are brothers and know that ultimately everyone has their area of weakness, injury, sadness. That person that you think: wow, look how beautiful, I would like to be exactly like that man, 6'4", green eyes, a lot of hair, a lot of muscles, wow like that. But that guy when he gets up in the morning and sometimes He looks in the mirror at six in the morning before going to work, he is probably horrified by himself, he sees himself naked there before going into the bathroom and there are all the flaws, nobody can hide them. Everyone has their area, brothers. and we cannot live our lives comparing ourselves to others.

Don't compare yourself. Do not compare your sufferings or your advances because many people say: ah, I am better than so-and-so because I have this, I have the other, a lie. Nor are you worse. You are you, God created you in a form and there is beauty in that, there is value in that. You have to take a spoonful every day of that medicine that you are worth because God loves you and not because people approve of you. Stop looking for the approval of others or stop looking for the sense of value in acquiring things and accessorizing; a house, a car, a title, a pretty woman, supposedly ideal children, whatever, a prestigious job. Brother, none of that is going to get into your heart and heal the wounds that are there.

Only the Power of the Holy Spirit and knowing that God is with you and is in your favor, and that God loves you and that no one can take you out of His Hands. Your Father is willing to fight you bare-knuckle with the devil and He doesn't have to because He just tells Him: go away and that's all He has to do.

But the Bible is full of these statements, brothers, Psalm 139 for example is precious, in English it is even more eloquent. But Psalm 139 verses 13 to 16 talks about this sense that the psalmist has of how God looks at him and values him, and is committed to Him and his life. I think, even verse 1 of Psalm 139, I know that Psalm by heart because one of the things is that you have to repeat these principles to yourself over and over again, and confess them with your mouth until they become a reality in your life.

This psalmist says: "O Lord You have known me, You have examined me and known, You have known my sitting down and my rising up." That can be seen in two ways, right? but now I choose to see it in that sense that: wow, God is a witness of everything in your life. God walks with you, God takes care of the most intimate movements of your heart and your mind. God is with you in the struggle and in the heat of life. God is with you in your sadness. He is with you even when you offend him and sin and fail him. He does not reject you, He receives you when you repent and come there a little dirty for something you did and you confess, He tells you: don't worry, I have here a tub full of clean water, take a bath and I have a suit for you new and fresh to wear, there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus says the Word. God is a witness to everything we go through.

I love that idea that God values me so much that He is in the smallest circumstance of my life and He is living my life with me, and He is a witness to everything that happens, like a mother when her child arrives because friends told him something at school or whatever and he takes it in his arms, and comforts him, and gives him courage and love. Do you know that's what a father, a mother does? That is the value of having parents who have loved us because when you value your children and you love them unconditionally, and you give them that affection, that is a source of blessing for your children.

Then they don't have to be healing when they have to think: oh my dad criticized me, he didn't affirm me, he didn't love me, he was always demanding this, demanding that, I always had to be paying him for his affection with good grades or this and what other. The love of a father, a mother, the warmth infused simply by the interpenetration of the body, that makes a contribution to the emotional health of a child in an extraordinary way.

Now what happens is: if you haven't had it, when you enter the Gospel there are other things, there are other consolations. Remember that the most important is the value of your heavenly Father, but if we can give our children both things, the warmth of a mother and father, and also the warmth of their heavenly Father when we are absent, then they are blessed on all sides, they are lined on all sides. But there is something that one feels when one knows that my Father loves me, knows me, values me, sees me, witnesses my struggles, is committed to me, that is wonderful, that instills peace in our hearts. So the world has no power over our lives.

So he says all this right? look at verse 5: "You surrounded me behind and before and laid your hand on me, such knowledge is too wonderful for me, high it is, I cannot comprehend it. Where shall I go from your Spirit, where shall I flee from your Presence? If I ascend to heaven, you are there, and if I make my stand in hell, behold, you are still there." No? This sense of the psalmist of the company of his God at all times is wonderful.

The Bible is full of passages that remind us that God, even if it seems otherwise, God prefers us, loves us. Many times the problem is that we are not aware of God's love. We care more about others who seem to be more blessed, which is why I say: don't compare yourself to anyone. Don't be looking at the other one who: oh he's prospering, now look, he bought a new house and I'm here with my little apartment all dilapidated, no, no, forget about that. The Bible says that: "Time and chance happen to everything." He too is going to need consolation for something someday.

You look where you are, what God has for your life, what are your goals, your plans in the Lord and focus on that, because sometimes it will seem like God is far from you but He is there working in wonderful ways and hidden to strengthen and establish the foundation for your future prosperity and your future blessing.

I think of these two sons in the parable of Jesus Christ, the prodigal son and the faithful son who are both there in the dynamic. We always focus on the prodigal son who leaves, offends the father, a lot of tragedy happens, returns grieved and the father receives him and restores him to his condition, but we don't think enough about the other son, the faithful one who stayed at home. because that one speaks to me more than the other. Because the faithful son who stays at home when he sees his father treating his brother so well, he gets offended and then it comes to light that there is a sense of rejection in him, and he says: listen, look at this, this boy is He leaves the house, he wastes all your money, he dishonors the family, now everything is shabby and you receive him and give him food, and you give him a dress, and you put a ring on him, and not only that, but you order the man to be killed. fattened calf for him, and I have served you all my life, and I have never done anything wrong, I have cared about your business and affairs, and you have not even given me a chicken to celebrate with my brothers to make a sancocho or whatever over there.

Sometimes we feel like that, you see? one compares himself with the other person: oh, look how God blesses him, how God does this, how God does that, and sometimes, do you know why? because that one needs more than you and God, so sometimes the one who is weaker then has to slow him down a little. And then God says: Boy, what are you talking about? If all I have is yours, why didn't you take a calf and kill it, or ten calves? you are the owner of everything I have; use it, enjoy it, right?

And that is instructive because sometimes we let the inferiority complexes and insecurities and low self-esteem that exist in us deform the way in which we interpret God's processes and the way in which God works, and the way in which we see others and we see ourselves.

Instead of seeing the glass as half full, we see it as half empty. Instead of seeing all the good things that God is doing in my life in so many ways we see the ones that he is not doing. Instead of seeing that we have a plate of food that we can eat at home, that we have friends, that we have a Father who has redeemed us, that we have guaranteed eternal life, that we have guaranteed eternal life, that we have a Church that ama, we simply see the fact that my car is not from the year and I have been looking for a package one for years and I have not been able to find it, and God has not given it to me. We stop praying, we get bitter, we get discouraged, instead of looking at all the good things in our lives and all the reasons why we can celebrate and thank the Lord.

And that is why it is important that you know: no, God loves me, God cares about me, God is with me, I am not going to compare myself to anyone, I am not going to let anyone control my feelings and the way I I see myself. God is faithful and although I am not perfect, and although there are others who seem to be better gifted than me, what God is looking for is the value of my heart, my inherent value that I have in Him.

Another illustration that reminds us about this principle: David and his brothers when the prophet Samuel comes to the house of David because God has told him: In that house is the future king of Israel, the one who is going to replace Saul, right? ? Samuel begins to judge as men judge, right? according to the height, the muscles, the appearance of the brothers. God does not tell him who the heir is but tells him: In that house he resides.

And then he says to his father: well, where are your children? and the father brings him, it's like a beauty contest: he brings all the children because they are big, strong, well-appearing men of war, and one by one they come and Samuel says: wow, this has to be it, look: he measures 6'4" and a headband the size of Arnold Schwarzenegger, he would look good in a war suit, he would represent the nation well, and God says to him: That's not it, I'll throw it away. Oh the other one; even bigger, more Stronger, more apparent, more intelligent, more distinguished, that one has to be absolutely, that one either, don't dress it's not going.

And why does the Bible put these people one after another after another? it is because God wanted to illustrate something, because the writer could have omitted all that and simply said: all the sons of father Eli came and none of them were, and in the end this happened, right? but God puts, inspiring the Holy Spirit to the writer one by one so that our mind is permeated with a truth, and that is that God does not measure physical appearance. God values human beings in a very different way than human beings value, even sometimes the Shepherds and anointed people like Samuel. People are always looking for looks and people are always looking to be manipulated, let me tell you, always.

The Pastors who manipulate them are the ones that people love many times, the ones who steal their money, the ones who pretend a lot, these are the people who are often respected, forgive me for saying so. The apostle Paul, in fact I want to illustrate that with another one, because there are many illustrations, but I don't want to lose myself, right? I'm getting ahead The thing is that when everyone has passed, the Lord gets annoyed with Samuel, he tells him: None of those are, I discard them all.

And then Samuel says: well, but you sent me to this address, I searched the GPS and this is where it brought me, look at it there: 274 such street in Bethlehem, what do I know, ok. And then he says to his father: but isn't there another one over there, are these all your children? Oh wait, I forgot: there is one over there stuck in the field; send for Davidcito who is over there, it did not occur to me, he is so small and so ugly (laughs). It wasn't like that, he was a possible Brad Pitt but you couldn't see him because he was full of dirt, sheep and it smelled bad, and all this because he was involved with the sheep there in the field.

And when they bring David the Lord says: That's it, that's the "mero-mero." I discard everyone else because I look at the heart, I don't look at the appearance. Brother, sister: fill yourself with that truth in your life. God does not look at your pedigree, how many titles you got or not, the house you have or the achievements, or the bank account. God sees your value as His son, His daughter, your heart, your desire to please Him, your level of consecration, your loyalty to the Kingdom of God, your love for others, your desire to serve Him, the nobility of your heart, your generosity , your compassion with others; we all have unconditional access to that and that determines the value that God gives you and the value that you have.

A person can be a king sitting in a palace and have less value than a beggar as we have in the parable of Lazarus because God sees the heart, God sees the inherent value that is in you, the spirit that He put in you. When God sees you He does not see a man, a woman with small scars from different situations in life, physical or spiritual. Do you know what God sees? God sees a spirit, God sees his life that He infused through your nose with Adam and Eve, when He touched your mother's womb and a light of life was lit, a creature was born by the union of your father and mother and the spark of life was given, and that has the spark of God.

God sees His life within you, God sees the eternity that He has placed within you. God sees the beauty of His Person and the Person of His Son in you, He doesn't see the trappings and nonsense of life, and we have to see that part. And life is full of that principle, I could be here for hours just developing that truth that we are worth not because of men or what circumstances determine, but because God loves us and gives value to us, and I want that in This afternoon you put that in all parts of your being.

Almost the last thing I say, almost the last thing, musicians come in, is that for these truths to become real in us you need to say them a thousand times or more. What I tell you is very easy to say and you say: oh, that's true but listen to me, how difficult it becomes when you go to work or when you have to deal with the dynamics of your cell, or when you look at all your fears and all the complexes that it has inside. It is that for the Truth of God to become real in our life one has to confess it, one has to read it, one has to memorize it, one has to join people who believe the same things continuously, you have to dream about them, you have to You have to continually think about them, you have to read your Bible, you have to underline them, you have to make separate notes in a journal.

You have to let that Word unravel within you and you consume it day after day after day, these truths. You have to tell yourself: I am worth it because God loves me and values me, and He sent His Son for me, and you have to look for that in different ways in your life, and every night before going to bed you must confess these things until they start to be reduced to a sediment of conviction that will feed him when life gets a little sour, until that becomes a truth.

All these truths, these principles that I am pointing out are of no use if I simply tape them to your forehead, it has to pass through your skull bone and reach your brain, and become a neuron, a connection, a synapse between two cells that feed their way of seeing life and their way of processing life's circumstances. We have to live that continually.

I will not let myself be governed by any circumstance of this world or any opinion of any man, any woman, anything that they give me or take away from me, I am going to fill myself with that sense of love and appreciation of my Father who loves me unconditionally and that he is committed to me one hundred percent of the time. That God who loves me no less because I didn't get an A on the exam, loves me no less because I don't have the doctorate I wanted, loves me no less because I don't have a six-bedroom house and a BMW in my carport; He loves me because I am His son, because He gave birth to me with pain on a cross, that is the way. And the Bible is full of those principles.

Psalm 54:10: "For the mountains will move and the hills will tremble, but My mercy will not depart from you, nor will the covenant of My peace be broken, says the Lord, who has mercy on you." Isaiah 49:14, I tell you, this is full of God's appreciation in the following verses. "But Zion said" he is referring to his people Israel broken and punished for their sins, and who already feels like God has abandoned him and forgot about him and no longer has anything to do with him, and then God puts these words in the minds of His people but He is also putting them in us when we sometimes feel rejected or that we have done something that God no longer has anything to do with us, or He no longer wants to hear from me because I offended Him, or whatever be.

And it says here: "But Zion said: The Lord left me and the Lord forgot me." And the Lord says: "Will a woman forget what she gave birth to stop pitying the son of her womb? Even if she forgets, I will never forget you, remember that. Even if my father and mother left me , with all the Lord will gather me." In 99.9% of cases, a mother does not forget what gave birth to her womb, but even if she belongs to that 0.1% that has forgotten, God would never forget one of His children, He would never abandon them. I will never forget you.

"Behold, I have you sculpted in the palms of my hand, your walls are always in front of me." Can you visualize that? that God has a screen where your life is portrayed 24 hours a day. All day every minute of the day the Lord is watching the movie called: Betania or Meche, or Samuel, or Marina. There is a movie that has your name on it and the Lord delights in watching it all day. Even when you are sleeping the eyes of God are on you watching you breathe, turning from one side of the bed to the other, seeing your nightmares, your dreams, your fears, your struggles, your flaws, your mistakes, your sins, and still He He loves you and is committed to you because He knows that in the end you are going to repent and you are going to do what you have to do, and you are going to reach the goal, and in the end you are going to heal from everything because one day you are going to die and you are going to enter the heavenly homeland, and you are going to be a beautiful angel who, if someone saw you, would fall on their knees before you because they would say: wow, this is God himself.

Remember that there is no way they can snatch you out of the hand of the Lord. Get independent from people, from circumstances and even from your own mind, and live focused on what God has said about you. The only reputation that matters is the reputation you have with God, the only reputation that matters. The other is lost at any time; one day you have it, another day you don't, one day they are happy with you, another day they reject you and criticize you. Don't get involved in that little psychological game. Focus on: what does God want, what does God say, what does God think, what is God's opinion of my life? and then you can be a little happier.

May the Lord help us find value in ourselves in God and not in what man or woman. Sit on the throne that God has prepared for you and live your life looking at Him. Right now visualize it in your mind, if you can close your eyes for a moment and look at your heavenly Father looking at you from heaven with a benevolent smile saying: Yes sometimes he is a little naughty but he is my son and I love him and am committed to him or her every day. I am not going to reject it, I am not going to ignore her, I am going to fight like a lion for her, and when they want to hurt me I am going to be there like a giant ready to defend.

God loves you, God loves me. The Lord says: "No one will be able to separate you from Me in all the days of your life" no one will be able to face you, neither angels, nor death, nor life, nor principalities, nor powers, nor the future, nor to come, nor can any other created thing separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Thank you Lord, thank you that no matter what circumstance I find myself in, I am more than a winner, I am more than valuable, I am more than precious, I have value in You Lord Jesus. May my brothers and my sisters be absolutely saturated with this truth on this day.

And do you know that it all starts with having the Presence of Christ in your life? the seal of Jesus, that is what gives you value, the Christ that resides within you, that is what gives you value, the Christ that resides within you. If you do not have Christ in your heart, I encourage you this morning, this afternoon to surrender your life to the Lord and ask Christ to dwell within your life, right now why don't you do that? invite Jesus into your heart.

Tell him: Lord Jesus, I clearly understand that I have no value for what I have acquired, for anything in this world, but because You died for me on the cross, You gave yourself on the cross of Calvary and because I am Your son, I am Your daughter. Come into my life, sit on the throne of my life, I give you my whole being, I want to live as a preferred child of God, as a woman who has value because Christ dwells in her.

If someone has not made their decision for Christ Jesus this afternoon, if something from this service has touched you and you want to take a step of faith this afternoon, and put your life in the Hands of the Lord, I invite you to raise your hand. and we want to pray for you this afternoon, if you have not done it before and you want to do it now, we open this moment. Will there be someone who wants to give their life and place it in the Hands of Jesus? We invite you to do it now. We wait a moment.