MGD: God Says You are Valuable

Beloved Shalom and God bless you for connecting with us

here today for our morning glory devotion. We thank God

for this opportunity to share in fellowship together in the word.

Let us pray. Lord Jesus, we thank you for your

word ever so sweet and true. We pray that you

open our hearts to walk in faith and practice every

word that we hear today. In Jesus' name, Amen. Let's

take our confession together from Joshua 1, verse 8. This

Joshua 1:8

book of the law shall not depart out of my mouth.

But I shall meditate in it day and night, that

I may observe to do according to all that is

written in it. For then I will make my way prosperous,

and then I will have good success. Amen. The topic

for today's episode is God says you are valuable. God

says you are valuable. Written by Miss Jessica Aholu. Our

scripture readings will be taken from Luke chapter 12 verse

Luke 12:24

24 and Luke chapter 15 the verse 4 and 5.

Luke 15 · chapter mention

Luke chapter 12 verse 24 Consider the ravens. They do

Luke 12:24

not sow or reap. They have no storeroom or barn.

Yet God feeds them. And how much more valuable you

are than the birds. Luke chapter 15, verse 4 and 5.

Luke 15:4

If a man has a hundred sheep and one of

them gets lost, what will he do? Won't he leave

the ninety-nine others in the wilderness and go to search

for the one that is lost until he finds it?

And when he has found it, he will joyfully carry

it home on his shoulders. May the Lord add his

blessing to the reading of his word. Amen. God says

you are valuable. In the world we live in today,

when someone asks, how much are you worth? Most of

the time, they are talking about money. They are asking

about your net worth, your possessions, your salary, your business,

or the things you have achieved. For example, if you

google how much a celebrity is worth, you may see

millions of dollars. And we often use these things to

determine whether someone is successful or valuable. But that is

not the kind of worth God is talking about. Your

value to God is not determined by your bank account.

It is not determined by your job or academic achievement,

your appearance or social status or the things you own.

Your value is not your net worth. To God, you

are a priceless treasure. God took his time to create you.

He knew you before you knew yourself. He created you

intentionally and he has a purpose for your life. No

matter what your circumstances look like today, they do not

change your value in God's eyes. Beloved, sometimes because of

the mistakes we have made, the things we have gone

through or the way people have treated us, we begin

to believe that we are not worthy of love. We

may feel forgotten, rejected, or insignificant. But Jesus gives a

different picture of our worth. When you read the book

of Luke, Jesus gives us different parables that helps us

understand how valuable we are to God. Think about the

story of the lost sheep. The shepherd had many sheep,

but when one went missing, He did not simply say,

I still have enough. He went looking for the one

that was lost. This is how God sees us. When

we go astray, when we make mistakes, when we wander

away from him, God does not simply forget about us.

He comes looking for us. He wants to rescue us

and bring us back home. And when he finally finds us,

there is rejoicing. When you read the story of the

prodigal son, the son made wrong decisions. He wanted to

live life on his own terms. He left his father's

house and wasted what he had. But when he finally

came back to his senses and decided to go back home,

his father was waiting. The father did not say, You

made your own choice. Now suffer the consequences. Instead, he

welcomed him. Beloved, this shows us something beautiful about God.

Even when we make wrong decisions, God does not stop

loving us. When we realize that we have gone too

far and decide to come back home, our Father is

ready to receive us. God loves us when we are undeserving.

And ultimately, we see the greatest demonstration of our value

through Jesus Christ. God was willing to give his son

for us. So when you begin to question your worth,

remember this, you are valuable because God says you are valuable.

You don't have to prove your worth through money. You

don't have to prove your worth through achievements. You don't

have to become someone else before God loves you. You

are His creation. You are His child. You are worth pursuing.

You are worth rescuing. You are worth loving. You are

valuable to God. And if God values you that much,

then you should never allow the world to convince you

that your life has no worth. You are a priceless

treasure in the eyes of your Father. Amen. God bless you.

Let's take our memory verse for today from Psalm 139

Psalms 139:14

verse 14. Psalm 139 verse 14. Thank you, making me

Psalms 139:14

so wonderfully complex. Your workmanship is marvelous. How well I

know it. Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex.

Your workmanship is marvelous. How well I know it. Amen.

Let us pray. Father, we thank you that we are

fearfully and wonderfully made in you. We thank you that

we are valuable. Help us to recognize and walk in

this value that you have given to us. In Jesus' name, Amen.

God bless you for connecting and listening in to today's episode.

We know that this is a wedding season for you.

We encourage you to connect for more spirit-filled episodes of

our Morning Glory devotion. Beloved Shalom and have a blessed day. Amen.