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PROGRAM D-7969

You are God’s canvas and he is a master artist! This is my message for you: God did not make a mistake when he created you; you are his image-bearer, created in his image; you are not an accidental coming-together of atoms or molecules; you are God’s specific and intentional creation.

If you began each day affirming this truth, I believe it would change the way you see your world and the way you see yourself! Remembering who you are in Christ and how God values you starts to undermine all those negative tapes that have been playing in your head for way too long.

What are some of your negative tapes? I think of a woman who could never meet her mother’s expectations. She had this old tape in her head that says she never did things right and she never measured up. Another friend heard her mother say—almost daily—that she was a mistake, an unplanned baby, and that her mother’s life would have been much easier had she not been born. This tape kept playing in her head that she was an unwanted mistake, so she spent most of her adult life trying to hear her mother say that she was glad she had been born.

What negative message has someone programmed into your mind in the past that keeps repeating itself over and over? If you can identify that tape and call it what it is—a lie—and refuse to believe that lie any longer, you can begin to appreciate who you are. You can know that you are God’s canvas and he is in the process of painting a beautiful picture in you.

I have a good friend who began to see the tapes that had been playing in her mind for what they were—lies—and she started confronting them out loud. As that negative lie would start to play again, she would say, “That’s a lie! I don’t believe it anymore!”  Then she would recite who she is in Christ, affirming that she is God’s canvas and that he is doing beautiful work in her life. It took a while to erase those old tapes, but she faithfully confronted them with God’s truth. Now those tapes no longer have any power in her life because she resisted them and refused to let them have a place in her mind.

Remember, you are God’s canvas and he’s doing good things in and through you.