Keys to life pt 9 Self Esteem

Keys to life pt 9
 Self Esteem - The foundation of life
 Deu 30:19  I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse. Therefore choose life, that you and your offspring may live,
Deu 30:20  loving the LORD your God, obeying his voice and holding fast to him, for he is your life and length of days, that you may dwell in the land that the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them."

prayer - the power of life
relationships- the network of Life
change- the way of life
desire- the motivation of life
vision - the blue print of life
faith - the force of life
discpline - the strength of life

8th Key Self Esteem - The foundation of life

Pro 23:7  For as he thinks within himself, so he is. He says to you, "Eat and drink!" But his heart is not with you.

2Co 3:18  All of us! Nothing between us and God, our faces shining with the brightness of his face. And so we are transfigured much like the Messiah, our lives gradually becoming brighter and more beautiful as God enters our lives and we become like him.

My thoughts about myself control my actions toward others, my faith in God and how far I go in life. 

The greatest difficulties come from unbiblical self image

An ubiblical self image breeds inferiority, and inferiority breeds insecurity breeds fear and anxiety and defensiveness and arrogance and then a controlling attitude and all that goes along with that

A healthy self image produces:
confidence without arrogance
discipline without legalism
generosity without strings attached
leadership without control
wisdom without manipulation
conviction without independence

To lead others and ourselves we must walk in his image
I will love God and serve God in proportion to how I love myself

Mat 22:36-40 ESV  "Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?"  (37)  And he said to him, "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. (38)  This is the great and first commandment. (39)  And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. (40)  On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets."

1Jn 4:16  So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.

Poor Self-esteem casuses many to have a weak faith in God and a negative view of their world

Ex. Israel in the wilderness


Num 13:29-33 ESV  The Amalekites dwell in the land of the Negeb. The Hittites, the Jebusites, and the Amorites dwell in the hill country. And the Canaanites dwell by the sea, and along the Jordan."  (30)  But Caleb quieted the people before Moses and said, "Let us go up at once and occupy it, for we are well able to overcome it."  (31)  Then the men who had gone up with him said, "We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we are."  (32)  So they brought to the people of Israel a bad report of the land that they had spied out, saying, "The land, through which we have gone to spy it out, is a land that devours its inhabitants, and all the people that we saw in it are of great height.  (33)  And there we saw the Nephilim (the sons of Anak, who come from the Nephilim), and we seemed to ourselves like grasshoppers, and so we seemed to them."

Never see yourself as a minority, special group or one who needs others to take care of them

God had to change Gideon's view of himself before he could enable him to fulfill his destiny

Jdg 6:6-16 ESV  And Israel was brought very low because of Midian. And the people of Israel cried out for help to the LORD.  (7)  When the people of Israel cried out to the LORD on account of the Midianites,  (8)  the LORD sent a prophet to the people of Israel. And he said to them, "Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: I led you up from Egypt and brought you out of the house of slavery.  (9)  And I delivered you from the hand of the Egyptians and from the hand of all who oppressed you, and drove them out before you and gave you their land.  (10)  And I said to you, 'I am the LORD your God; you shall not fear the gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell.' But you have not obeyed my voice."  (11)  Now the angel of the LORD came and sat under the terebinth at Ophrah, which belonged to Joash the Abiezrite, while his son Gideon was beating out wheat in the winepress to hide it from the Midianites.  (12)  And the angel of the LORD appeared to him and said to him, "The LORD is with you, O mighty man of valor."  (13)  And Gideon said to him, "Please, sir, if the LORD is with us, why then has all this happened to us? And where are all his wonderful deeds that our fathers recounted to us, saying, 'Did not the LORD bring us up from Egypt?' But now the LORD has forsaken us and given us into the hand of Midian."  (14)  And the LORD turned to him and said, "Go in this might of yours and save Israel from the hand of Midian; do not I send you?"  (15)  And he said to him, "Please, Lord, how can I save Israel? Behold, my clan is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father's house."  (16)  And the LORD said to him, "But I will be with you, and you shall strike the Midianites as one man."

The image, picture or thoughts I have about myself must be based on what my father says about me!