Four reasons why Yahweh favors no one over you

1. Yahweh’s Son shed his last drop of blood for you. Yahweh loves you with his whole heart. He loves you with every speck of his enormous love. That means no matter how much he loves others, he couldn’t possibly love anyone else more than he loves you.

A woman wrote about the above paragraph:

Scripture makes no promise that you will always feel loved, nor that circumstances will always make it obvious that you are loved. Yahweh simply promises that you are loved. No suffering or tragedy will ever separate you from Yahweh’s love (Romans 8:35-39). A snap-shot in time proves nothing. Only eternity’s movies can adequately portray the infinitude of Yahweh’s love for you.

The more you love someone the more important that person is to you. So the fact that Yahweh loves you with his whole heart means you are more important to Yahweh than you could ever imagine.

2. Before Yahweh forgave us we were all spiritually dead. Scripture affirms that every person on this planet was dead in their sin. You can’t get any deader than dead. Yahweh couldn’t say, I prefer her because she’s a little less dead than him.

But through Christ we can be forgiven. When Yahweh looks at a forgiven person, he can’t find one sin. When you are forgiven, Yahweh can’t find a person on the entire planet, more forgiven than you.

So without Christ we were all equally dead in our sin and in Christ we are all equally forgiven.

3. Yahweh is all-powerful. That means he doesn’t need some people more than others.

If Yahweh could only use young people, or strong people, or rich people, or famous people, or educated people, then Yahweh must be so weak that he needs human strength; so poor that he needs us to give him a few dollars; so foolish that he needs human education.

4. The Lord loves using small and seemingly unimportant things. 1 Corinthians 1:26 says, ‘Look at what you were before Yahweh called you. Not many of you were wise by human standards. Not many of you had great influence. Not many of you came from important families. But Yahweh chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise, and he chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong. He chose what this world thinks is unimportant and what this world looks down on and thinks is nothing in order to bring to nothing what the world thinks is important. Yahweh did this,’ the Bible continues, ‘so that no one could boast in his presence.’

In the Bible, the book of Jonah seems small and insignificant. It’s only 2-3 pages long. I often feel like that: small and insignificant. I have often felt so useless that I would have committed suicide if I wasn’t worried about having to face Yahweh afterwards. But the Bible would be very much poorer without this tiny book. And the Kingdom of Yahweh would be much poorer without you. In this tiny book we see Yahweh using a storm, a whale, a heartless, rebellious, moody man, a plant, and a grub. Are you less gifted than a grub? Then Yahweh can do mighty things through you. If Yahweh could use a storm and a plant and a grub, Yahweh is smart enough to use you. Yahweh is so powerful he can use anything to do his work.

No Christian is too old, too poor, too uneducated, too stupid, too sick to be gloriously used of Yahweh. We can’t explore this in depth here. For just one aspect of this, see Never too old for Yahweh.

Do you believe there is nothing Yahweh cannot do? Do you believe Yahweh could bring a dead person back to life? Do you believe Yahweh could bring a dead person back to life through your prayers? Those words ‘through your prayers’ don’t suddenly make Yahweh weak. Do you believe Yahweh can save thousands of souls? Then you must also believe Yahweh can save thousands of souls through you.

Either Yahweh can do the impossible through you, or he isn’t Yahweh.

Keep telling yourself, ‘There is nothing Yahweh cannot do through me.’

Heaven stands on tip toe waiting to see the astounding things you will achieve for the glory of Yahweh.

No one is more important to God than you are: Bible proofs

In the book of Galatians 2:6-9, Paul speaks of Peter, James and John. If anyone could claim to be have a special place in God’s heart it was these men. When Yah'shua walked this planet they seemed his closest friends. Later they were called the pillars of the church. Without pillars the whole building collapses. Yet Paul wrote of these men, ‘whatever they were, it makes no difference to me; Yahweh shows personal favoritism to no one.’ Paul was speaking about Peter, the man honored by millions as the first pope. Even his shadow healed people. Paul was speaking about the leaders of the church, the greatest saints, when divinely inspired to write, ‘whatever they were, it makes no difference to me; Yahweh shows personal favoritism to no one.’ Tell yourself, ‘The Bible says I am as important to Yahweh as Peter, James and John.’

One day the disciples told Yah'shua that his mother wanted to speak with him. Yah'shua replied, ‘Who is my mother? Anyone who does Yahweh’s will is my mother’ (Luke 8:20-21).

So anyone who obeys Yahweh has as much right to speak with Yah'shua, as Mary has. Anyone who does Yahweh’s will has the same place in Yah'shua’ heart as his own mother.

Another time when Yah'shua was preaching, a woman shouted, ‘Blessed is the woman who gave you birth.’ Yet instead of agreeing with her, Yah'shua said Blessed rather is the person who obeys Yahweh (Luke 11:27-28).

Yah'shua was born only once. So only one woman could have the privilege of giving birth to the Messiah. That was Mary’s unique blessing. But spiritually, we are all equally blessed. In Ephesians 1:3 the Bible says each of us have been lavished every spiritual blessing. How could it be otherwise? If Christ died (ie gave his all) for sinners, what would he possibly withhold from them now that they are cleansed and made Yahweh’s precious children? As Scripture points out, since you are so dear to Yahweh that he gave his only Son for you – the most costly gift in the universe – there can be nothing he won’t give you (Romans 8:32, see also 1 Corinthians 3:21-22).

Tell yourself, ‘I am as spiritually blessed as anyone.’

You have a special place in Yahweh’s heart

From the age of four, I loved helping my grandpa lay cement paths. Almost anyone could do a better job than a little child, but that was irrelevant. I was irreplaceable. I had a special place in grandpa’s heart.

And you have a special place in Yahweh’s heart. To him you are irreplaceable. The Almighty needs the help of no one. Yet the Father’s joy could never be complete without your contribution.

My grandpa wanted me to share in his work. Not because he needed me, but because I was special to him. And Yahweh wants you to share in his work. Think about that for a minute – Yahweh’s work is the most important work in the universe. Yahweh has something of divine importance; something of eternal significance that he wants you to help him with. Wow! You are important!

To Yahweh, you are special. I used to think yeah, yeah Yahweh loves me, but he loves everyone. To him I’m just one of millions of Christians. Yahweh has his favorites and I’m not one of them. I thought I was being humble thinking this way. But what I was really doing was accusing Yahweh of imperfect love. In fact, I was calling Yahweh a liar. Yahweh says he loves you. So to believe that you are unimportant to Yahweh is to believe that Yahweh is a liar. There is nothing humble about calling the holy Lord a liar! It’s sin.

Yahweh is the most important person in the universe. So if you are important to him, you are important! There is nothing humble about telling the all-wise Yahweh that he’s wrong. This is serious.

How dare I go up to the glorious Lord who shed his life’s blood for me and tell him, ‘I’m not special to you.’ Dare I go to the cross where I deserved to hang, look into my Savior’s bleeding face, and accuse him of loving others more? He died for me! What more dare I demand he do before I accept the fact that I’m special to him! I need to feel as bad about that sin as if I were guilty of murder.

It’s said that a pirate killed a man. He was so horrified by what he had done that he couldn’t sleep properly for weeks. But he kept killing. He got to the point where he could kill a man, use the corpse as a pillow and sleep soundly all night. We are like that. We have committed the sin of wrong thinking so often that our consciences have become as hard as concrete. For other sins our consciences have might still be soft but to the sin of doubt and small thinking, we are hardened.

Lepers lose fingers, toes, sometimes noses. It was always thought the disease did this. But a brilliant medical missionary began to question this. Dr Paul Brand noticed that lepers would go to bed whole and wake up without a finger. No one could ever find a trace of the missing finger. He eventually discovered that the fingers were being chewed off and carried away by rats! However could this happen? It’s because lepers lose feeling. And that’s our problem. We have lost feeling in part of our conscience. And then the devil – that fat rat – begins to chew us and instead of shooing him away, we don’t even realize what he’s doing. We desperately need Yahweh to make our consciences sensitive.

The crunch

We now come to the most crucial part of this message. This message could give you a boost for a few days, then fade and ultimately achieve nothing. Or it could be the turning point in your life, making you the powerful force in the kingdom of Yahweh that you were created to be.

It’s frightening to consider how much this world misses out when any Christian thinks he or she is not special to Yahweh. There’s no Christian who cannot be used of Yahweh to win thousands of souls, should the Lord so chose. There’s no Christian who can’t be used to change the course of human history. But while we hold on to the sin of small thinking, it won’t happen. This is serious – more serious than any of us can imagine. To rid ourselves of this sin will probably cost us enormously, but for us to be freed from sin cost Christ far more.

For us to give up the sin of small thinking is as hard as it is for an alcoholic to permanently give up drink. We need a gigantic miracle in our personal lives. It begins by admitting that we are addicted to the serious sin of not seeing ourselves and our possibilities as Yahweh sees them. We must hate this sin. We must admit that we are such a slave to this sin that the only way we can be freed is by a divine miracle.

I suggest the following prayer. Pray any part of it that you feel you can agree with.

Maintaining the victory

For very many years I have been constantly tempted to feel useless. I wrote a book giving all the reasons why every one of us can achieve great things for Yahweh and I had to keep reading that book every day, week after week, year after year. Whenever I stopped reading it for a few days I would slip back into depression again.

So I make no apologies for expecting that you will need to hold on to the truths in this message and read it over and over for maximum benefit. They are important truths that the devil tries with all his power to make us forget. We must hold on to them as if our very life depended upon it. In fact, it can be more important than life itself. Other people’s eternal destinies could depend upon whether we grasp these truths and live them. The Lord wants to make you a powerful force in the kingdom of Yahweh.

Your need, however, is too chronic for any self-help technique to deliver you from your addiction. You must daily ask the Lord to re-sensitize your conscience. The Lord’s prayer – ‘give us this day our daily bread . . . lead us not into temptation’ - proves our need to daily bring to Yahweh our need for divine help in conquering temptation. Without this we will be drawn into a false and dangerous delusion that our dependence upon Yahweh is less than absolute. ‘Let anyone who thinks he stands,’ warns Scripture, ‘take heed lest he fall’ (1 Corinthians 10:12). However, your divine Helper, the Ruach haQodesh (Holy Spirit), dwells inside you, wherever you go, 24 hours a day. It’s tragically easy to slip back into old habits and hardly notice it. Daily look to him to set off the alarm bells whenever you begin to slip back. You then have divine protection.

>Negative thoughts will still come but, once exposed, you can repel them with the same disgust as you would a blood-sucking leech. These filthy invaders from the sewers of hell are not part of you. We can’t think of nothing, nor can we think of two things at once, so the best way to eject wrong thoughts is to seize the opposite thought, ideally, a statement you know to be true because it’s in the Word of Yahweh. Cling to it like a non-swimmer holding a life rope in swirling waters. Thrash the devil by using every approach of an invader as a cue to throw a praise party in your mind, exalting in the fact that the truth (reality) is the exact opposite of the lie trying to invade you. This shines a floodlight on low life that can survive only in darkness. Resist the devil and he will flee (James 4:7). He’ll try to sneak back later, but as you daily look to the Lord you will live in victory.

Appendix: why the sin of unbelief is so addictive

This section details some of the reasons why I became addicted to wrong thinking. The cause of your own addiction will not necessarily be the same, but it is still helpful to be alerted to the dangers.

I used to sometimes put myself down in the hope that whoever I was speaking to would take pity on me and give me an ego boost. I was oblivious to how pathetic such behavior is until one day I met someone who refused to play my game. Instead of boosting me, all she would do was rebuke me and accuse me of sin for being negative about myself. I was most annoyed until I began to see myself more accurately. By making myself dependent upon ego boosts from other people I had made myself frighteningly vulnerable. I was expecting others to do something that was my responsibility. Moreover, my actions proved that human praise meant more to me than the divine approval I already had. And every time I got the flattery I was seeking, I was being rewarded for my put downs, thus increasing my addiction.

If the success of achieving a goal is sweet, to be significantly more successful than I had dared dream is exceedingly delicious. The simplest way of ensuring a repeat of this highly addictive thrill is to convince myself I will do poorly. The exhilaration I get when I exceed my low expectations is rich reward for having a low view of my Yahweh-given potential. I was grieving Yahweh, defaming his name and committing the sin of unbelief – deliberately lowering my faith – in the (sometimes unconscious) hope of experiencing a high.

And although I knew faith pleases Yahweh, I also knew that taking a faith step is scary. It’s easier to take the lazy, cowardly way out.

Making wise-cracks at my own expense was another trap. Every time someone laughed, I got my reward, but every such wise-crack chiseled negative attitudes a little deeper into my mind. I was baiting my own trap.

Addictions have their momentary pleasures. In the end, however, they are a curse keeping us from the full and exciting and Yahweh-glorifying life we were created for. As we daily look to Yah'shua, however, the curse will be broken.

Not to be sold. © Copyright, 1997, Grantley Morris. Not to be copied in whole or in part without citing this entire paragraph. Many more compassionate, inspiring, sometimes hilarious writings by Grantley Morris available free at the following internet site www.net-burst.net Freely you have received, freely give.

---