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Bible Humility when we have genuinely accepted ourselves and begun to properly love ourselves we can forget ourselves and be turned to others in real service for Christ.  Only a person with a proper sense of self-worth can be truly humble.

In the margin of this notebook I have written by the above statement: This brought release and freedom to my WHOLE life! Looking back  I can remember letting go, in what a friend of mine calls a freefall to God.  I remember accepting myself with all of my faults believing God would fix them ... in His time.

And to note here One of the most valuable things that I did was make a study of the general characteristics of what the world calls an Adult Child ... an adult that was raised in dysfunction.  With a lot of prayer this helped me to accept and understand myself better and to ‘see’ those areas that God and I needed to work on.  From much reading I learned that adults raised in dysfunctional situations tend to:

1. constantly seek approval and affirmation
2. judge themselves without mercy
3. over-react to changes over which they have no control
4. have difficulty having fun
5. tend be impulsive
6. feel that they are different from other people
7. tend to lie when it would be just as easy to tell the truth
8. have difficulty with intimate relationships
9. often have difficulty in completing a project
10. are extremely loyal, even when that loyalty is underserved
11. are either super responsible or super irresponsible

If I committed sin in any of the above potentials I first asked God to forgive me. With understanding these potential problem areas I learned to catch myself, grab a verse and instantly ask God to order my thoughts and/or actions. It was a step by step process to that helped change 34 years of behavior.  I praise Him that it was not an impossible process--for with Him all things are possible.

My healing process started eighteen years ago and is continuing still.  I used to think it would one day be finished, but I have come to believe that finished will happen when I get to Heaven and have the complete mind of Christ.  However, knowing the characteristics of people raised in dysfunctional homes still helps me to keep my thoughts and my actions in check with scripture so that I don’t give Satan a playground in my life. Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ; And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, ... . II Corinthians 10:5-6.  If I do not love myself I am in disobedience to God and will not be able to truly love others.

A Poor sense of self-worth is generally characterized by feelings of inferiority, self-dissatisfaction and self-pity ... .

A poor self-worth often keeps a person from accepting God’s forgiveness; that person is so conscious of his sins he cannot believe God forgets what He forgives.  He dwells in sins already forgotten ... .

A poor sense of self-worth hinders your spiritual maturity and will eventually result in bitterness and rebellion toward God.

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