The Wait on Marriage Podcast

In this episode I talk about never getting hurt again, but I also discuss The Capacity to Care. 

The enemy would love to distort our capacity to care, but God has always given us the capacity to care for what He desires us to care about. 

In this episode I talk about self-worth. Many of us can struggle with this without realizing it. It can manifest as thoughts of not being good enough, focusing on our mistakes and viewing our value based upon performance. If you're struggling with self-worth you may not have an idea of when or where the seed was planted but it must be countered with Gods word. Below I list a few points and scriptures to identify and combat the feeling of inadequacy. 

1 Peter 5:7 | amplified classic

Casting the whole of your care [all your anxieties, all your worries, all your concerns, once and for all] on Him, for He cares for you affectionately and cares about you watchfully.

God wants to care and watch over what we’re concerned about and He can do a way better job at it than we can.

Here are some takeaways for how to have victory over the feeling of inadequacy.

1. Understand that God loves you
2. Identify those thoughts when you struggle to love and accept yourself
3. Counter those thoughts by speaking and Confessing Gods love over yourself
4. Receive Gods love instead of performing for it
5. Recognize that you’re Gods very own. He loves you and you’ve done nothing to deserve to feel inadequate.

God does not call us to attach our self worth to our things, our performance, or how much we accomplish in a day.

He calls us to recognize that we are loved, valued, and are enough as we are because we are created by Him and we are loved.

Confess This: Lord, Im loved, valued and enough as I am because I am created by You. I'm your work of art. I'm more than enough. I don't have to perform for your love because you love me perfectly. 

Psalm 139:13-15

“For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth.”

Luke 12:22-24

And he said to his disciples, “Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat, nor about your body, what you will put on. For life is more than food, and the body more than clothing. Consider the ravens: they neither sow nor reap, they have neither storehouse nor barn, and yet God feeds them. Of how much more value are you than the birds!”

Ephesians 2:10

“For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.”

1 John 3:16

“By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.”

2 Corinthians 12:9-10

But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

Genesis 1:27

“So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them”

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.

2 Corinthians 5:17

“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.”

In this episode I talk about the importance of Self-Care. Self care is important especially for those of us that pour into others -which may be more of us than we realize. We can't pour out to anyone from an empty cup, so it's imperative that we pay attention to ourselves and when our tanks are on E. 

The importance of self care

Self care is wealth care. There's value in our self care regimen so take time to evaluate and create a list of things that you do to care for yourself and refresh yourself on a regular basis. 

If you don't have one, I encourage you to develop a self care maintenance plan

In today's dating world it can be hard to know who or who not to trust with our hearts. Past heartaches and heartbreaks can cause us to retract, withdraw and clamp up the heart that God has given us. However, I believe there's a right way to guard our hearts without allowing them to become callous or bitter in ways that the enemy would desire. In this episode we're going to go into Proverbs 4:23. 

What's up everyone! Here's a formal introduction to the Wait On Marriage Podcast and the Host, John Jay Sims. The Wait On Marriage podcast is a podcast that encourages singles on their process to wholeness and the path of living their best life in preparation for the right relationship or thrive with their best life as a single person.