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Listen "This Is No Competition - Nicole Simmons - May 13, 2018"
Episode Synopsis
Freedom is not comparing yourself to others!!
Your freedom begins when judgment and condemnation ends!!
Jesus has no desire to "climb the ladder "of the Trinity, He seeks the Father's Glory!
"So David went out wherever Saul sent him, and behaved wisely. And Saul set him over the men of war, and he was accepted in the sight of all the people and also in the sight of Saul's servants. Now it had happened as they were coming home, when David was returning from the slaughter of the Philistine, that the women had come out of all the cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet King Saul, with tambourines, with joy, and with musical instruments. So the women sang as they danced, and said: "Saul has slain his thousands, And David his ten thousands." Then Saul was very angry, and the saying displeased him; and he said, "They have ascribed to David ten thousands, and to me they have ascribed only thousands. Now what more can he have but the kingdom?""
I Samuel 18:5-8 NKJV
bible.com/114/1sa.18.5-8.nkjv
"So Saul eyed David from that day forward."
I Samuel 18:9 NKJV
bible.com/114/1sa.18.9.nkjv
Prior to this, Saul was promoting everything that David had done. This was the moment when jealousy crept in!!!
When we us the word hate, it carries a lot of weight!!! Saul started to hate David.
Comparison is the thief of joy (Mark Twain)
What is this root of trying to measure up? It is "Identity"!!!
How do we view God, others, and ourselves:
View God
If God gives us good things, then why do we struggle with other's things!!! Do we struggle with other's opinion of us, because "how does God view us"? We need to be reminded of "Truths vs. Lies" "Compliments vs. Comparisons"
"Stop trusting in mere humans, who have but a breath in their nostrils. Why hold them in esteem?"
Isaiah 2:22 NIV
bible.com/111/isa.2.22.niv
View Myself
"For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be. How precious to me are your thoughts, God! How vast is the sum of them!"
Psalm 139:13-17 NIV
bible.com/111/psa.139.13-17.niv
Your freedom begins when judgment and condemnation ends!!
Jesus has no desire to "climb the ladder "of the Trinity, He seeks the Father's Glory!
"So David went out wherever Saul sent him, and behaved wisely. And Saul set him over the men of war, and he was accepted in the sight of all the people and also in the sight of Saul's servants. Now it had happened as they were coming home, when David was returning from the slaughter of the Philistine, that the women had come out of all the cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet King Saul, with tambourines, with joy, and with musical instruments. So the women sang as they danced, and said: "Saul has slain his thousands, And David his ten thousands." Then Saul was very angry, and the saying displeased him; and he said, "They have ascribed to David ten thousands, and to me they have ascribed only thousands. Now what more can he have but the kingdom?""
I Samuel 18:5-8 NKJV
bible.com/114/1sa.18.5-8.nkjv
"So Saul eyed David from that day forward."
I Samuel 18:9 NKJV
bible.com/114/1sa.18.9.nkjv
Prior to this, Saul was promoting everything that David had done. This was the moment when jealousy crept in!!!
When we us the word hate, it carries a lot of weight!!! Saul started to hate David.
Comparison is the thief of joy (Mark Twain)
What is this root of trying to measure up? It is "Identity"!!!
How do we view God, others, and ourselves:
View God
If God gives us good things, then why do we struggle with other's things!!! Do we struggle with other's opinion of us, because "how does God view us"? We need to be reminded of "Truths vs. Lies" "Compliments vs. Comparisons"
"Stop trusting in mere humans, who have but a breath in their nostrils. Why hold them in esteem?"
Isaiah 2:22 NIV
bible.com/111/isa.2.22.niv
View Myself
"For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be. How precious to me are your thoughts, God! How vast is the sum of them!"
Psalm 139:13-17 NIV
bible.com/111/psa.139.13-17.niv
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