People’s Approval Doesn’t Matter

• One thing I have learned is we don’t graduate  from our need to be approved by people when we   graduate high school. We still live for  approval; it just gets more expensive. When God gave me this message, he said, “Call it  The Father Saw, because they thought nobody saw,   but I did.
• ” Since you can’t see the Father visibly  or hear the Father audibly, I want to deliver the   message today that he saw. He saw what you  didn’t get. He saw that integrity you had.   He saw when you didn’t go off. Now, Wednesday you  did, but then Thursday you got it together and you   didn’t do it again. See, we have to celebrate the  times where we do get it right. I’m bad at this. Stand up if you’re like me and you have a hard  time celebrating your successes. All right.
• Let’s   take a moment, since we’re so hard on ourselves  and we have a hard time celebrating ourselves,   at every location, let’s celebrate the fact  that we had the self-awareness to stand up   and know that we’re hard on ourselves.  See how weak that was? You’re like, “I’m   not clapping for that.” Sit down. I  have to work on y’all for a minute.
• We are so bad at this. Holly and I went  on a hike to Crowders Mountain Friday,   and while I was busy beating the imaginary  opponent to the top of the hill… I was 30   steps ahead of her, and she was looking at the  view. I said, “You need to keep up.” She said,   “You need to slow down. The view is  getting good.” I was like, “I know it.
• ” But she was talking about the landscape.  I realized it was an analogy for what she   brings to my life that is so irreplaceable.  Holly is great at celebrating herself. She   really is. She does not need lessons in this.  She came downstairs the other day celebrating her   workouts, that she had made it to  a certain point in her workouts.
• I’m the kind of person… I’ll do the workout  and then think about the fact that somebody   else could have lifted more. I’ll just  do this all the time. Really. I struggle   to celebrate myself. And I used to think that  was godly, because after all, the Bible says,   “Humble yourself in the sight of the  Lord.