"What's Your Worth?" RESCUE RADIO With Marjorie Cole

0:00 I have an emergency, what is your location? Rescue radio, cause there's a war for your soul. Yes, Father God, it is true, this war is as real as anything and yet people don't see it. So I pray that you'd open our eyes to the spiritual war, help us have understanding, and we declare that thy kingdom come, your will be done, you be established in this earth, your purposes, your principles, your truth. And we thank you Jesus for defeating our enemy by dying on the cross, paying the price in full with your blood to purchase us back, rescue us back from the enemy.

0:56 Lord, the Son of God, you gave every drop of blood because we are precious to you. And thank you Lord, I pray that we would be also precious to ourselves and understand our worth and our value, not only just in your eyes, but Lord, in the eyes of truth that we are created in your image and in your likeness. I thank you for giving us eyes to see today, ears to hear, and that we would be brought into the place of encouragement Lord God, that each one of us have to understand that we're in the midst of fiery trials. These things are deliberate and purposeful. Both God and Satan are both working in the same place at the same time in our lives to do the opposite thing. Let the Lord God and his purposes prevail to perfect that which concerns us. And now Father, we take authority over the powers of darkness, the prince of the power of the air, the lies, the witchcraft, the words, the curses that have been pronounced over your people. We bind and forbid them, we command that they be covered with the blood of Jesus Christ and fall to the ground. And that Satan cannot pick them up again and use them against us because you said there's death and life and the power of the tongue.

1:56 And we thank you also, Father, for giving us divine wisdom and counsel. Give us eyes to see, as we said, and ears to hear this message in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. Well, I want to address an issue that comes up over and over again as we work with people. Very common. And that is the idea that people do not feel worthy. I'm not worthy. There's something wrong with me. I'm not good enough. And the question is, okay, what is good enough? By whose standard? When people don't know their identity and our destiny is determined by our place of origin. And that is, of course, created in the image and likeness of God. But that has been so slimed and swamped and covered over that people really are just in the midst of trying to mount to something, work harder, try harder, what all that looks like.

2:52 And they feel defeated because the enemy is here to lie, steal, kill, and destroy. And he mostly tells us lies from inside of ourselves. He talks to us in our own minds and thoughts and we believe it's our thoughts. And so we don't rebuke these things. But yeah, what are we worth? Well, it's interesting when you talk about in the world, we talk about value. What do people value? And what's it worth? What are people willing to pay for? We determine value by how much people are willing to pay for something. Well, how much was Jesus willing to pay for us? Well, he paid everything. He paid by his precious blood. I want to just talk about some of these things that seem really weird. And as we get into this today, some of the strangest things that people are willing to pay money for, a lot of money for. A few years ago, there was an original copy of Bob Dylan's song Like a Rolling Stone that was written on a hotel stationary that sold for $2.2 million. You're kidding me.

3:56 And then a lock of Elvis Presley's hair, supposedly it was Elvis' hair, sold for, his barber was smart and kept it and sold it for $115,000. J.K. Rowling that wrote the Harry Potter books, the chair that she sat in when she wrote the first two Harry Potter books, the chair, sold for $394,000. And one of us possessed. Right. One Beatles fan spent nearly $15,000 on a porcelain toilet seat that was used to be owned by John Lennon. My goodness. Jesus have mercy.

4:40 Here's another thing. Marilyn Monroe's famous white dress sold in 2011 for $4.6 million. And then there was a damaged violin that was attached to a musician that died in the Titanic. That sold in less than 10 minutes at an auction for $1.7 million. So we're valuing things by the money that people are willing to pay for them. That's it. What is somebody willing to pay? Sometimes we look at things, maybe a house or some other property, we think, you know, that's really worth it to me.

5:24 It's worth that money to me. Then sometimes we look at things, we say, no, I would never pay that for something like that. So the value is the buyer. Yeah. We should say or the purchaser. And so or what are you willing to pay to get something back that belongs to you that was maybe stolen from you like Jesus. He made us in his image and likeness. He says in someone 139 talking about who we are. He said that in verse 14, the author says, I will praise you for I'm fearfully and wonderfully made in secret works and that my soul knows very well. My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret and in secret and skillfully wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.

6:16 Your eyes saw my substance being as yet unformed. And in your book, they were all written. What the parts of me, my members, my eyelashes, they're all written in your book. The days fashioned for me as when as yet there was none of them. And before I even had any days, he says, and how precious also are your thoughts towards me? Oh, God, I don't think people think that God is thinking about them. I don't think he thinks that he sees us as precious or priceless, if you will. We don't see ourselves the way God sees us. And that's the problem. The problem is we see ourselves through the lenses that Satan has smeared up with all kinds of failure and judgment and guilt and injustices and betrayal. And we we judge ourselves by how well we do with accomplishments or by the terrible things that have happened to us. Yeah, that's it. And so, you know, we're at the place where to see our value. I mean, I've heard people say, I don't hear that much anymore, but, oh, I don't want to bother God with my little prayer requests, my little problems. He's already so busy. It's like that is just absolutely ridiculous when he says that he's mindful of us.

7:32 He's mindful of every detail of our lives. If you'd be a busy person and you were very, very busy and your child needed you, you'd stop and drop everything else and go after them, would you not? He's the same way. He knows even when the interruptions are going to be, so he could even write them into his schedule, I'm sure. In Matthew chapter 10, he talks about the sparrows. There is not a sparrow that falls that is not according to the will of God. So he is his. There's an old song says his eye is on the sparrow and he watches over me and he says you're more value than any sparrow. So he counts the hairs on her head.

8:12 Well, you know, hairs on our heads are numbered. We if we knew how precious we were to God, we would not panic and we would not be paranoid because we would know that God's with us. God's bigger than all of what we're looking at and facing and God's on our side. He's favoring us. And so if we just got our perspective right and didn't look at things straight ahead, but went looked up and see that God is with us and he's also imparted to us the Holy Spirit who lives inside of us, who's sent there to lead you, protect you, guide you if you will obey him. And so we still have a free will. We still have the option to believe what everybody else is saying or what the devil is impersonating us to believe by impersonating us to ourselves. But the truth is the truth is in Ephesians. Look at this. He says verse chapter one.

8:56 He says verse chapter verse to God grace to you and peace from God, our father in the Lord Jesus Christ. Now, if God were so evil and wicked and unhappy and crabby and bipolar and unpredictable and untrustworthy, why would it always say grace and peace to you from God, our father in the Lord Jesus Christ? Why would God be wishing grace and peace upon us? But go ahead and listen to verse three. Blessed be the God and father of our Lord Jesus Christ who blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ. Verse four. Just as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world that we should be holy and without blame before him in love. Before the foundation before he created the world, the animals, the garden of Eden, the sea, the trees. Before that he chose us. So he already had us stashed away in his mind as his ultimate, you know, pinnacle of creation going to make us in his own image and likeness. So in other words, he's creating us to be in fellowship with him, to relate to him, to walk in the spirit with him. Jeremiah one five. This is God's word to the prophet Jeremiah. He says before I formed you in the womb, I knew you before you were born. I sanctified you. I set you apart. I ordained you a prophet to the nations.

10:20 So and I did. Jeremiah really needed to know that because he really because if you read Jeremiah's life, he was a lonely man. He didn't get married. He didn't have children. God says, don't do that. He says and he was always giving scolding messages to the very, very rebellious people who hated what he said, hated him. And you know what? If he had judged himself by how successful his ministry was, he'd have been zero minus zero, you know, because they not only didn't like him and other prophets were falsely prophesying lies and untruth, and he would challenge them. And then they threw him in a pit, a pit with mud. I mean, he was sitting down there in his armpits. Wow.

11:04 I would just have panicked. But see, God told him ahead of time. He says, you're my man. I got you. And so that's what Jeremiah had to go on. And we're all inside the same thing. We're God's man, God's woman. And God's, you know, called us, sanctifies us, sets us apart, calls us for such a time as this. And if you're going to be bowled over by I'm not good enough and the devil's whispering in your ear, you're so stupid, you know, and this is the problem. You're finished before you start. Well, the enemy knows how we know we're built, we're born like little wet cement and like a little vessel on the potter's wheel. And you can turn and transfer that vessel, that into any number of things. And you can mar the vessel.

11:44 You can break it. You can do all kinds of things with it. But when we're brought into this world, most of us are put in front of people that are our enemies, really. They are our parents. But they think and they believe lies. They've been indoctrinated. They believe what the latest trend is on how to raise children or how to withhold your blessings from children. Don't kiss them. Now's the latest one. Don't kiss the baby. Oh, my Lord. Or they might find out that you love them. So now we're depriving the child of kissing because the doctor says, don't kiss your babies. Don't let anybody kiss them. I just heard of a grandmother the other day. She says, I've seen my child that my grandson is a year and a half old and I've never been able to kiss him.

12:28 And you know what? The thing is, this is demonic, people. Wake up. You know, you let him touch every other dirty thing and you can't kiss them. Oh, really? Well, how are they going to know they're loved? You know? And the other thing, you know, back in the day, too, they raised kids to deprive them of nurturing by letting them self-soothe. So that means they have to cry themselves to sleep in their bed and nobody's there to attend to them. You just let them, you know, the term is self-soothing. Well, how do people self-soothe? They take drugs. They do alcohol. They masturbate. This is how they self-soothe. Satan is setting up a vulnerability, a lack in people's lives. They're not getting the touch. They're not getting the bonding. The child is kept from the mother.

13:12 The mother doesn't nurse. The baby is put in an incubator. All of these isolating kind of things, you know, and then thrown in their crib to let them cry themselves to sleep. What is that baby going to come up with as an idea of who they are? I'm really loved and cherished and wanted and they want to be with me? No. Even if the babies live and actually are born, the most dangerous place for a baby now is in its mother's womb. Or just immediately after they get out of it. What does this say about us? What does this say about Satan? What does this say about who we're listening to? We butcher our own children before they're born. But this is nothing new? I know. We don't even think about it.

13:52 And we say it's a right. It's a reproductive right. It's a woman's right for her own body. Who came up with that term? It's not just your own body. It's the body of someone else. And basically abortion, flat out, keep it in mind, it's murder. And if you've murdered a baby, you know, God will forgive you if you repent. But this is plain murder. Well, I know, and a lot of women obviously do this ignorantly. We do a lot of things ignorantly. We sin, believe lies, hate ourselves, even kill our own selves. I mean, this death thing that goes on. The easiest way to get out of here is to kill yourself. Or I don't want to live anymore.

14:32 So people just are giving place to death because they don't think they're worth it. They have never lived their life and yet they're willing to give it up. And there's nobody who comes along and says, you are worth it. I love you. Let's do this together. There's very few people that get someone to come into their life that actually can walk alongside them, encourage them, and rebuild them even after they've been devastated by the first 18 years of their life, you know, by people who've been trying to kill them and all kinds of things. I'm not saying every parent is bad, but I'm saying every parent could be better in the fact that if you loved yourself you would love your child. And the reason you don't love your child is because you don't love yourself because you believe the lie yourself. I'm not good enough. Nobody cares about me.

15:12 This has been going on for generations, decades, centuries. Satan has plotted against the human race since the very beginning. And now we're getting to the grand finale. And people don't recognize that we are in the very end of days, the end of the end days. We could have years left, not many. We don't know. But the thing is now we've got, you know, a rough subject I'm getting into. But anyway, to know who I am, you've got to have people who are willing to stand there with you, love you through the thick and thin of it, and you are worth it. Well, the greatest of these is love, Paul said. It's not you know, okay, you can have all these gifts, you can have all this charisma, faith, move mountains, miracles, all that stuff. All that stuff is fine, it's good.

16:04 But he says, there's faith, hope, there's faith, there's hope, which is in the scriptures hope is not, I hope things work out. No, it's a sure hope, it's a sure expectation of good coming from God. And faith is trusting in the Lord, full trust in him, no matter what's going on. And love, it's not just ooshie gooshie mushie. It's laying down your life for someone else. It's laying down your life for your brothers. And it's when you can't really love. We love because he first loved us. So when you know, if you don't know you're loved, you can't love anybody. It's impossible.

16:48 There's nothing there. And at the same time, love is a fruit of the spirit, really. It's a result of the spirit of God in your life. There's human affection, human love, the spirit of God. To be lost in a box of chocolates. I love ice cream, I love chocolate chip cookies. It's all an emotion. It's a chemical reaction a lot of times. But true love carries us through to the very here it says, 1 Corinthians 13, verse 4, love suffers long and is kind. In other words, when you're suffering, when you're waiting, when you're believing for someone to be set free or to act properly or have to forgive them, you suffer long but you're kind. You don't get bitter, you don't get offended, you don't get hurtful, you don't get jealous, you don't get vindictive. It says love does not envy. That means I don't want to, it doesn't make me want to be you or take away from you so that I can have what you have. Love does not parade itself.

17:56 It's not arrogant, it's not haughty, it's not look at me. It's not puffed up. That's what some people, you know, to get attention, sometimes people, kids, they'll be naughty just to get some attention. Any attention is better than no attention, even if they get it from the cops. I mean, they have to identify themselves as distinct in some way. Love does not behave rudely. How many people rebel? They're impatient with one another. They criticize and yet most of the time when you're criticizing someone and judging someone, you better look that back in your own face. You're doing the exact same thing and totally blind to it and how hypocritical and how embarrassing is that. You're judging someone for the very thing you're doing but you don't see it.

18:40 Love does not seek its own, is not selfish, is not provoked, doesn't, you know, take offense. I think so many times are worth in value. People get offended, they turn away, they cut you off at the knees, they put boundaries up, you're not worth it to them. We have so much of that cutting off at the knees, you know, cutting them off. We don't know what time it is. Is it time to turn the other cheek or is it time to shake the dust off? But the question is not the boundary, the question is what time is it? Is it time to receive them back? And in any case, whether they're wandering or coming back, they're going away, it is our wonderful privilege to believe God for their return, for their safe return. Because this is what the battle is all about. It's about your worth. It's about your value. It's about, you know, being reconciled to God. And thanks no evil.

19:32 Love does not rejoice in iniquity but, you know, doesn't laugh at dirty jokes. Love does not poke fun at someone and make them the blunt of a joke. Love does not, you know, pass along gossip, juicy gossip, but rejoices in the truth. Love bears all things. That means you're put up with a lot of stuff to believe to the end. Believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails. There you go. Love never fails. God's love for us does not fail. And this is what we look at. We see how God is working against all the odds. He gave us a free will. Then he gave the devil the permission. Okay, if they listen to you, you get them.

20:12 God gave us a free will to choose the devil. And then the devil lies to us about who we are, who God is. And he sets God up in all kinds of predicaments. And the devil tries to even set us up in opposition to ourself, which is in 2 Timothy chapter 2. If I'm set up in opposition to myself, then what am I worth? What am I worth? If I'm my own worst enemy, who am I? What am I worth? The thing is, too, we get so self-focused. So many of us are so self-focused. We worship ourselves more than we worship God. The other side of the coin is that I'm not worthy.

20:52 Even if you say I'm not worthy, who are you focusing on? You're focusing on yourself. The bad you. And the thing is, too, is people that have been severely abused from childhood on, their view of themselves a lot of times is this. There's something wrong with me. There's got to be something wrong with me, something evil that I'm getting such. I'm getting browbeaten. I'm getting bullied. I'm getting emotionally, verbally abused. And so I'm going, Satan sets up all these deprivations and then he puts the question in my mind, why? Why are they treating me like this?

21:36 Why are they not giving me an explanation for beating me? Why are mom and dad fighting? The child becomes absolutely, totally disoriented and confused. And a lot of times they actually even just disconnect or they disassociate from the whole thing. And then they shut down their emotions or bring pain so people walk through life numb. And then they do drugs to try to feel something because they're all numbed out. And so then what happens is we're just alienated and we're wandering, wandering, wandering further and further away from the truth because we don't believe or trust anybody anymore. That's what happens. But on the other side of the coin you have the people who are also entitled. And they're prideful. Now pride covers fear. So they're actually insecure as well.

22:24 They're very insecure but they hide the shame with arrogance or with, like I said, entitlement or rebellion. So ultimately shame says, I am bad. And Satan wants you to agree with that statement. You are bad. You're bad. You're not good. Because why? Because Satan is jealous over us because he knows who we are. He knows who you are and he doesn't want you to know who you are. So he is just creating a ruckus inside of you to distract you from the truth of who you are by creating all kinds of incidents around you and puts tormenting thoughts within you so that you submit to and agree with, I am no good. I'm bad. I don't deserve.

23:04 And so here's the other thing, Jerry. When people say, I don't deserve, what are they saying? They're saying to be good or to be loved, to be important. I have to do something. I have to do something to be worthy of love. I have to do something. Romans 5, 6-8, it talks about God committing his love toward us and that while we were yet sinners, while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. So there's, in a sense, there's nothing worthy that we did. In fact, we're going the opposite way. We're spitting in God's face. We're turning from him and God loves us so much. He sees us as so valuable that no matter how badly we've messed up, he knows that it's worth going to the cross for us. Hebrews 2-14, it talks about where God took upon himself flesh and blood.

24:08 In other words, that's Jesus, the person of Jesus so that he would be partakers with us and giving his life. Basically, Acts chapter 20, it talks about Paul exhorts the elders to feed the church of God, take care of the church, the people who love the Lord because they've been purchased by the very blood of God. So God took himself blood because the only way to be atoned, the only atonement for sin is through blood. It was in the Old Testament sacrifices. It was the blood of bulls and goats and sheep. Now it's that's not what saves us now. It's the blood of Jesus Christ.

25:00 It wasn't the blood of the bulls and goats. It was that was a holding a placeholder for Jesus coming. It was the blood of Jesus Christ reaches back into the Old Testament. It reaches into the New Testament and brings in the New Testament. And so it's not the blood of bulls and goats that saves us now. It's the precious blood of Jesus. So what do we need without spot or wrinkle? So what do we need to turn this around to get back on track to know who we are truly? Well, first of all, you need to humble yourself and ask God to forgive you for believing all the lies, all the negative things that Satan has got you to believe about yourself because you've been taking your the enemy who hates us because we are made in the image of God and Satan knows that he knows who you are. That's why he's trying to tear you apart.

25:48 But he's got to get you to agree with him. So we want to forgive ourselves for believing lies about ourselves or other people or the way we treated other people not to see seeing them as precious in God's eyes and worth his death and resurrection. So again, what are the lies you're believing about yourself? And if you everybody every person that I've ever counseled, Jerry, and I've counseled a lot, every every person, when you get to the place where God shows them the memory of the event, the situation that he's bringing them to to bring them to healing or deliverance, the bottom line of every what's the lie they believe? Everyone is pretty much the same. I'm not good enough or I'm not worthy. I'm not worthy.

26:32 I'm not good enough. I'm bad. And again, people are thinking they're bad because bad things happen to you. Well, you know, does that make your child bad if something bad happens to them or do you love them all the more? It's like we're so we're so glued to the tube. We're so programmed every day. We have no idea how many things interact with you every day to take you or distract you, take you off track, make you believe lies, get you spilling your life, your time, your money for something that's pointless and worthless and won't satisfy you anyway. And yet we the bottom line, the basics is I am worth God dying for. And I'm also he wants me and he also made a beautiful place for us. So I am worthy.

27:16 Why am I worthy? Because he made me worthy. Because why am I righteous? Because he is my righteousness. And so we need to repent. I think change that means stop believing the lie. Ask God to forgive you for believing lies about yourself. Stop it. Just stop it. Stop believing all the molly grubbing, all the grumbling, all the complaining, all the things you don't have, all the complaints about the weather, the complaints about the traffic, the complaints about the media, the complaints about the government. Stop it. That's not even your point. Your your purpose and point is to understand who you are and what God is calling you to do.

27:56 Father, we just thank you so much for recognizing us, Lord, as your children, Lord, and because you know that because you created us. We were created before we were created in our mother's womb and Psalm 139 talks about how we were knit together. We were woven together wonderfully. The human body, amazing, amazing. But not only were body, were soul, were spirit. You made us to be resembling you, Lord.

28:36 Your image and likeness. Your image and likeness. We resemble you. We have a mind. We have a will. We have emotions. We have a spirit. We have a soul. And I thank you, Father, for helping us to recognize that, Lord, that we would not live according to those old mindsets about being worthless and down and mad and everything. Yeah, there's times we make a mistake. Yes, we said we failed. But Lord God, you said you repent to repent for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. And so we repent of those things that we believe about you, about ourselves, the lives that we believed about life, about ourselves, about others, about you. Forgive us, Lord. And may there be an infusion now as we apply ourselves to your word that will give us the truth about who we really are.

29:32 We're not here to build self-esteem in some sort of artificial, arrogant way. But we just recognize before you we're humble, we're humbled, but we're living in a place of recognizing your love and your grace. Forgive us, Lord. Yes, and also we bind and forbid all the demonic spirits that impersonate us to ourselves like self-condemnation, self-hatred, self-blame, self-bitterness, all these things that infect us with sicknesses and diseases and eat away at our souls and our bodies. We bind and forbid them to continue their discussion in your mind, in your heart about who you are.

30:16 And may the Holy Spirit take precedence and may the Lord God himself speak to you words of life and truth and may you choose life, may you choose to follow, may you choose to be grateful for your life and don't throw it away with suicide or negative thoughts or pursuits of vanities. Father, in Jesus' name, we bind the demonic spirits that have tried to take us, impersonate us to ourselves, to take us over. We rebuke you, enemy. I'm rebuking you right now as the people are listening. I'm rebuking you in their minds, in their hearts. You are being exposed right now by the Holy Spirit who lives inside of them and you will not continue your operation of destruction and deception in my brother, my sister anymore in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth. And enemy, you know who he is. Father God, we ask for deliverance right now in this person's mind and heart from every kind of negative, destructive, self-hating thing that's coming against him. Guilt, shame, condemnation, we cast you out in the name of Jesus Christ. We cast out depression, defeat, discouragement. We cast out the liars, the snakes. We cast you out of them in the name of Jesus Christ and we release the holy cleansing power of the love of God and the word of God to wash them and make them clean, refresh them. I command that this transformation, this conversion happen so that your people who say they follow you and love you will also know who they are. Father God, and then those who know who they are and they know their God, then we will do exploits in these last days.

31:48 So bless us, Father God, in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. There's a book, Doing Relationships God's Way. It talks about our relationships with God, with difficult people. With sin, with ourselves. With ourselves. So tell us just a little bit about that book. When I was going to write that book, God said the first relationship and the primary relationship that we have is the relationship we have with ourselves. And so out of that relationship I have with myself comes every other relationship, including the relationships I have with other people. So if I'm feeling insecure, unloved, unwanted, attacked, bullied, discounted, unworthy, if I am sensing and believing those things about myself, that is going to predict and that's going to be where I determine my relationship with other people.

32:44 So again, your first relationship and out of which all other relationships come is the one you have with yourself. So that's talked about in that book, Doing Relationships God's Way. You can get that on Amazon or you can get that at our liferecovery.com bookstore. So I encourage you to check out that bookstore. It's got some very good stuff in it. And I know it's summertime and it's hard to read, but we've also got YouTube videos out there, Marjorie Cole or Life Recovery. You can find them that way and spend your evening watching that instead of TV. In the name of Jesus. Amen. See you soon.

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