Post 6 The Promise about your Appearance

Post 6 The Promise about your Appearance

1 Samuel 16:7 NLT

7 But the Lord said to Samuel, “Don’t judge by his appearance or height, for I have rejected him. The Lord doesn’t see things the way you see them. People judge by outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.”

1 Samuel 16:7 NKJV

7 But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not look at his appearance or at his physical stature, because I have refused him. For the Lord does not see as man sees; for man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.”

I think the whole world is guilty of this. We as a race place a very high value on outward appearance when we are placing value on a person. All of us, I feel, have been guilty of this way of judging people and this is not the way that God looks on us. We live in a world that judges you if you are not pretty. We live in a world that judges you if you are overweight. People make initial decisions at least on stature.

In this story Jesse brought all of David's brothers before Samuel and didn't even summon David to even be considered. It wasn't until Jesse had been told God had rejected all of David's brothers that Jesse even thought to mention another brother existed. In the world you will be overlooked by many things. It might be the doctrine you hold  dear, it may be the political party you hold dear, It may be the the job that you do. People are always judging people and weighing them up in ways that aren't really important.

We get so caught up in it. It has taken a lot of reviews and a lot of talks with people that have read my books for me to work out that I am a good writer.  Yet long before I was assured that I was a good writer the Holy Spirit led me to start writing. It has only been very recent as I write this book, my tenth book, that I have come to believe that I am good writer and I communicate things very simply to people. In the past month people have been telling me that they are ordering all my five published books so far. ( four are getting edited now and this one is being written) If God had to have me convinced that I was a good writer before I started my first book, I would have never started my first one. Yet God has seen my heart all along and inspired me to write and commence a journey of writing and self publishing. 

It is not what you look like. It is not the church you go to. It is not the car you drive. It is not how big your house is. It is not your husband and what he does. Its not your wife or your children. Its your heart and the state of your heart that God wants. He does not look at what the world looks as as good or successful. In my journey of writing, I have been healing more and more. As I write and speak to people who read my books, my pain is getting better and better. As I heal, my writing is becoming richer and more useful for the Kingdom. Writing is healing me as well as achieving what each of the books are doing to achieve God's purposes to the readers.

I am just a simple person. People who have called me weird and that they did not want to be my friends have said, "He's got a good heart. His heart is right, but I just can't be his friend." Slowly and surely this hurting heart is getting more and more whole. Yet with all the pain that is still there, God has seen my hearts cry and who I really am inside. No matter how good I look to people that know me, I know God goes to bat for me and shows me Jesus in visions and takes me to Heaven and allows me to impact thousands of people. Many people, if they were God would not allow me to have my anointing, my authority and my influence. If things were left up to the world, and not God's providence, I would never be able to have an impact. I am a nobody in many peoples eyes and yet I am a big somebody in my God's eyes.

So are you! You are important to God. It's not what you own. Its not  what you have done. Its you inside, that spiritual inside of you, that heart inside you that is important to God. Some may read what I say and think that my writing is anointed. Some may read this book and others of mine and think that I am a good writer and say that, "Well that is him. That's not me." But honestly, if God can anoint me, if God can use a man that failed English in High school and got 41%, and use me despite two mental illnesses, well he can use you too!. If God can help a beaten up person like me to have influence in my world and impact strangers all over the world without a professional publisher, He can also raise you up to shine also! It does not matter what church you go to. It does not matter how smart you are. Nothing matters but your heart. If you have a heart sold out to God, He can do anything with you!

Prayer

Father,

Through people, through You personally speaking to them, and through prophecy, show this reader who they are to you. Show them how much you love them and what you love about them. Show them in a tangible way that you love them just for the person that they are. I ask this in Jesus name. Amen.