Accept Yourself By Joyce Meyer

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Are you tired of playing games, wearing masks, and trying to be someone other than who you are? Wouldn't you like the freedom just to be accepted as you are, without pressure to be someone you really don't know how to be? Wouldn't you like to learn how to succeed at being yourself? God wants you to accept yourself and like who you are.

He doesn't want you to reject yourself because of imperfections. He wants you to learn to deal with your weaknesses. Because the truth is, we all have plenty of them.

The Bible tells us that Jesus understands our weaknesses (Heb. 4:15), the Holy Spirit bears us up in our weakness (Rom. 8:26), and God chooses weak and foolish things of the world to confound the wise (1 Cor. 1:27).

If I look at my weaknesses and tell you what I believe my value is, it would be less than nothing. But I have learned that my worth is not based on anything I do, but in what God has already done. It's wonderful not to start the day by waking up and hating yourself before you ever get out of bed. It's wonderful to no longer hear the devil rattling in your ears a list of all the mistakes you made the day before. It's wonderful not to have him remind you of what a failure you are. Many people are beat down before they ever get their feet on the floor in the morning.

The devil's plan is to deceive us into basing our worth on our performance, then keep us focused on our faults and shortcomings. Satan wants us to have a low opinion of ourselves and be insecure so that we live ineffectively for God. This mindset makes us miserable and unreceptive to God's blessings, because we don't think we deserve them.

Once we come into peace with ourselves, we will begin to come into peace with others. If we learn to accept and like ourselves, we will accept and like others. I know this is true from personal experience. The more I am able to accept and like myself in spite of my weaknesses and flaws, the more I am able to accept and like others in spite of theirs.

Every one of us is imperfect, and God loves us just the way we are.

Source: Help Me I'm Insecure by Joyce Meyer. www JoyceMeyer org

All About TD Jakes

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Pastor, author, artist, entrepreneur, philanthropist... international influence, Thomas Dexter - TDJakes entered the ministry in 1979 when he and a congregation of ten people founded the Greater Emmanuel Temple of Faith in West Virginia.

More than 25 years later, Christianity Today magazine called Bishop TDJakes church in Dallas, The Potter's House, "one of America's fastest-growing megachurches." In 2001, a TIME magazine cover asked, "Is This Man the Next Billy Graham?" Multiracial and nondenominational, the Potter's House has 50-plus active outreach ministries, more than 30,000 members, and a full-time staff of 300.

Bishop TDJakes was keynote speaker for the 2000 Congressional Black Caucus. He has visited the White House in meetings with both Presidents Bush and Clinton-and shared spiritual guidance with President Rawlings of Ghana and President Obasanjo of Nigeria. He was a guest of the King of Jordan, King Abdullah; the President of Trinidad, George Maxwell Richards, and in January 2005, the president of the Republic of Uganda, Yoweri K. Museveni, and his wife, Janet Museveni.

February of 2005, in his second cover appearance, Time magazine listed Bishop TDJakes among the country's "25 Most Influential Evangelicals." In 2006, Sridhar Pappu's in-depth look at TD Jakes as "the most powerful black man in America" appeared in The Atlantic Monthly. TDJakes books are revolutionary.

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