START SEEKING GOD’S APPROVAL. “don’t judge yourself by what other people say about you, God’s word is enough to give you the right direction.”

Seek God’s Approval in Praise
“Accept, Lord, the willing praise of my mouth, and teach me your laws” (Psalm 119:108).
The first step in seeking God’s approval is to start with a willing attitude of praise towards Him. Praising God in either song or reading the Psalms begins the process of a transformed mind. Your thoughts will be more focused on pleasing God first and everyone else afterwards. If you struggle with seeking God’s approval first, make an intentional effort of beginning and ending every day with praising God.

Seek God’s Approval in Repentance
“Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight…restore to me the joy of your salvation and grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me. Then I will teach transgressors your ways, so that sinners will turn back to you” (Psalm 51:4, 12-13).
It’s sinful to put pleasing people before pleasing God. Jesus said, “Anyone who loves their father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; anyone who loves their son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me” (Matthew 10:37). There needs to be a time of confession and repentance for the times we’ve faltered in our faithfulness to seeking God’s approval first. The Lord is faithful and willing to forgive leading to a cleansing process from this unrighteousness.

Seek God’s Approval in Prayer
“I call on you, my God, for you will answer me; turn your ear to me and hear my prayer” (Psalm 17:6).
When you have sought the Lord’s approval first before moving ahead, you will find more boldness in your prayers. This happens because you’ve aligned your thoughts and desires with the Lord’s desires. You will find yourself no longer seeking or desiring man’s approval because you will be driven towards praying according to God’s will more so than your own will.

Seek God’s Approval in Preparation with His word.
“But in your hearts revere Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect, keeping a clear conscience, so that those who speak maliciously against your good behavior in Christ may be ashamed of their slander” (1 Peter 3:15-16).
When you’ve spent a lot of time trying to get everyone’s approval, there’s a painful time of breaking away on both sides. Those people accustomed to you wanting their approval will be dumbfounded by your lack of response. Yet this is necessary for you to mature in your faith walk because you will find resistance in those who want you to seek their approval first. However this is part of your preparation in standing up for what’s right even without the support or approval of close family or friends.

“Seek ye first the kingdom of God” (Matthew 6:33)
How different the world would be if every single believer started the day with a statement like this: Father in heaven, I want Your approval more than the approval of men…show me how I can bring You pleasure today. The culture as we know it would be turned upside down because we would see mighty works of God on a regular basis. We are called with a holy and precious calling to serve God with all our hearts. Seeking His approval first completely nullifies a double-mindedness about what we are to do. You are born again into the freedom of seeking God’s approval first.

SALVATION

I’m a Christian. Will I lose my salvation if I sin?
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A person who makes a genuine commitment of his or her life to Christ becomes a child of God and a member of God’s family (John 1:12).

Just as an orphaned child is adopted into a family, so are we adopted by God and made a part of His family forever. And some day we will go to be with Him in heaven. “How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are!” (1 John 3:1).

However, just because we have committed our lives to Christ does not mean we will no longer struggle with temptation, and sometimes sin. Even the great apostle Paul could say, “I find this law at work: When I want to do good, evil is right there with me” (Romans 7:21).

When we do sin, God does not reject us or disown us. Our fellowship with Him may be broken, but our relationship is not; we are still members of His family if we have truly committed our lives to Christ. When we sin we should immediately turn to God, confess our sin honestly, ask His forgiveness—and then turn from our sin.

The Bible promises, “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness” (1 John 1:9).

If we truly know Christ and are seeking to follow Him, we will not be complacent and unconcerned about sin in our lives. In fact, one of the signs of true spiritual life is the hatred of sin and the determination to conquer it. We will not continue to repeat the same sins over and over again, but will seek God’s help (by the Holy Spirit who dwells within us) to overcome them.

The Bible promises, “No temptation has seized you except what is common to man. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can stand up under it” (1 Corinthians 10:13). Indifference to sin in one’s life is a sure sign of serious spiritual sickness, and may indicate that one has never truly invited Jesus into one’s life as Savior and Lord (1 John 2:3-4).

GOD LOVES YOU!

God’s Love Shown Through Jesus Christ

John 3:16 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Romans 5:8 but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Galatians 2:20 I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God. who loved me and gave himself for me.

Ephesians 2:4-5 But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, evenwhen we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ— by grace you have been saved—

1 John 4:9-11 In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
God Loves and Cares For Us

Zephaniah 3:17 The LORD your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save; he will rejoice over you with gladness; he will quiet you by his love; he will exult over you with loud singing.

1 John 4:7-8 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.

1 Peter 5:6-7 Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you, casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.

Job 34:19 who shows no partiality to princes, nor regards the rich more than the poor, for they are all the work of his hands?

Psalm 86:15 But you, O Lord, are a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness.

1 John 3:1 See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him.
What God Says About Love

Deuteronomy 7:9 Know therefore that the LORD your God is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations,

Proverbs 8:17 I love those who love me, and those who seek me diligently find me.

Jeremiah 29:11 For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.

John 13:34-35 A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
Respond To God’s Love Through Thankfulness

Psalm 136:26 Give thanks to the God of heaven, for his steadfast love endures forever.

Romans 5:2-5 Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God. More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.

Colossians 2:6-7 Therefore as you have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him, having been firmly rooted and now being built up in Him and established in your faith, just as you were instructed, and overflowing with gratitude.

Hebrews 12:28-29 Therefore, since we receive a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us show gratitude, by which we may offer to God an acceptable service with reverence and awe; for our God is a consuming fire.

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