{"id":1604,"date":"2012-12-11T01:00:34","date_gmt":"2012-12-11T06:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/?p=1604"},"modified":"2012-12-07T15:29:59","modified_gmt":"2012-12-07T20:29:59","slug":"pearls-of-wisdom-12-11-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/2012\/12\/11\/pearls-of-wisdom-12-11-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Pearls of Wisdom 12-11-2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>CHOSEN AND DESTINED FOR GREATNESS, PART 1<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The minute you were conceived in your mother\u2019s womb, you were chosen and destined for greatness.\u00a0 God had you on His mind long before you were born.\u00a0 We have already looked at <strong>Psalm 139<\/strong>.\u00a0 Go back to yesterday\u2019s confession of <strong>Psalm 139<\/strong> and listen to this with your heart and let the Word of God minister to you and wash away any doubt of your value, of your worth to God.\u00a0 He loves you.\u00a0 You are special to Him.\u00a0 You are the apple of His eye.<\/p>\n<p>Do you see from these passages how much God cares for you and watches over you?\u00a0 He loves you with a love that would not let you take the punishment you deserved.\u00a0 He loves you with a love that will not let you alone in your sin.\u00a0 He loves you with a love that will not leave you nor forsake you.\u00a0 He loves you, yes, you.<\/p>\n<p>We have an enemy.\u00a0 His name is satan.\u00a0 He is the devil.\u00a0 He hates us and wants one thing for us.\u00a0 He wants us to think that we are no good, are not worth anything and even if we are worth anything, we will never have anything because we are not capable of having the kind of faith that it takes to be somebody.<\/p>\n<p>Well, let me put to rest these lies right now.\u00a0 Satan is a liar and the father of liars.\u00a0 He is no good.\u00a0 God is the Father of Truth.\u00a0 He is good.\u00a0 He thinks you are valuable, precious, like the finest jewelry in the earthly realm.\u00a0 You are a gem, one of a kind, designed by the Maker Himself, and He does not make any mistakes in creating you.\u00a0 You are His creation, created in His likeness when you are born again, when you become His child.\u00a0 And your Father, in Whose image you are created, is perfection itself.\u00a0 He doesn\u2019t create any seconds.\u00a0 We are all firsts, first in His mind and first in quality.\u00a0 The quality control of heaven is perfect, no imperfections.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t care what you think.\u00a0 What you must ponder is what God thinks about you.\u00a0 Focus on His Word regarding your preciousness.\u00a0 Study His Word to find out what He thinks about you.\u00a0 Meditate His Word in your mind and heart until you have a clear image of what you look like in the Kingdom of God.\u00a0 Then carry that image until you see it become reality in this earth.\u00a0 Nothing is impossible with God.\u00a0 What has He shown you about your destiny?\u00a0 What has He chosen you to do?\u00a0 You do have a place and a purpose.\u00a0 You were not just randomly created.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHOSEN AND DESTINED FOR GREATNESS, PART 1 The minute you were conceived in your mother\u2019s womb, you were chosen and destined for greatness.\u00a0 God had you on His mind long before you were born.\u00a0 We have already looked at Psalm 139.\u00a0 Go back to yesterday\u2019s confession of Psalm 139 and listen to this with your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1604"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1604"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1605,"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1604\/revisions\/1605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}