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who’s ready for part five of planted not
berry we are we are so excited about
this get out your notes get out your
smartphones we’re about to go to a whole
nother level today this series is really
exciting for me because so many people
are getting the understanding that under
does not mean over that if you are a
seed and you are planted that it’s the
place where God does some of his best
work when nobody can see it when
nobody’s around when nobody’s applauding
you sometimes it feels isolated
sometimes it feels like the very
environment that you’re buried in but I
have found that a burial and a planting
looks similar and if you don’t have
perspective somebody say perspective if
you don’t have perspective you will call
the same environment that God’s making
you in the environment that God tried to
take you out in and so today I want you
to realize that you are planted and not
buried and we’ve been talking about
different things what to do when you’re
under and today we’re gonna take it a
neck next um the next step we talked
about what to do when you’re under fire
we talked about last week what to do
when you’re underfunded and this week
the title of today’s message is planted
and undervalued because there are a lot
of people that that have stopped moving
towards the thing that God has called
you to do because you don’t feel like
the people around you value who you
really are
there are people in here that have been
serving who have been faithful who’ve
been trying but you feel like you have
not been valued that people don’t see
what God is placed on the inside of you
there are people in this room that feel
underrated they feel underestimated they
feel underappreciated they feel played
down and understated and this could be
as a parent as a friend as an employee a
son or a daughter you feel like a
underemphasized volunteer you feel like
a diminished leader you feel like a
minimized spouse you feel downgraded
reduce a glossed over pastor or you even
feel under priced you feel undervalued
and I’m coming to speak faith to you if
in any area of your life you feel
less than you’re feeling lower then
you’re believing the lies of the enemy
that maybe you should quit right now I
don’t know why I’m preaching so hard in
the first four minutes of this message
but somebody needs to understand that if
God has you in a place that you are
feeling undervalued I believe that that
is the same place that God can work a
miracle and show you who you really are
to show you that you are more than a
conqueror to give you the ability to
understand that what you are feeling
right right now does not sum up what God
is going to do with your life and there
are people in here that have stopped and
become paralyzed because you have been
underappreciated that you’re waiting for
somebody to validate you before you give
your all come on summer of us work jobs
right now where they know they know that
you know you’re not giving you all cuz
you don’t appreciate me you don’t value
me there’s some parents in here that
have been trying to do their best and
their children never say thank you and
there’s an emptiness that the enemy has
been trying to convince you that that is
the place where you should just give up
but not today I believe that there are
some marriages that have been on the
brink because your husband or your wife
has not valued what you’ve brought to
the table and you said well God maybe I
just need to get a divorce no no no no
baby I believe that God wants to inspire
you to stay everybody shout at me
planted yeah
because when we feel undervalued we
think maybe if I come out of this and
plant somewhere else they’ll value me
maybe if I leave this school maybe if I
leave this job maybe if maybe if I leave
this thing they’ll value me more over
there but what I want to tell you is
that nobody will value you if you don’t
value you if you don’t understand what
you’re worth and what God is placed on
the inside of you and what you carry
people will always label you and tell
you what you’re worth but you need to
know that your value comes from God and
so today I want to talk to you about
what to do when you’re planted and your
under values and I need you to
understand this because we have to get
perspective you got to get perspective
and I want to take you to a story in
Genesis go to Genesis chapter 29 I must
warn you today’s message is textbook
Jerry Springer episodes season 7 now I
know this side is saved and they’ve
never watched Jerry Springer but for the
rest of us this message today the text
is God kissing cousins lies pimp daddy’s
literally sisters fighting baby mama
drama everything is in this I’m telling
you Genesis 29 you can read it and I
don’t know if you’ve ever watched our
episode of Jerry Springer or some but
there’s always a dude in the middle of
the drama be like Jerry I don’t even
know I don’t even know why they doing
all this you don’t say hello both of
them okay like like that person in this
story his name is Jacob okay and Jacob
is in the center of all this drama
that’s happening and and Jacob falls in
love with his cousin named Rachel and I
want you to see because we’re gonna find
a character and here who’s been
undervalued and we’re gonna see what she
does in this situation and maybe if
you’re in a undervalue situation or you
maybe find yourself in an undervalue
situation later on in your life you will
know what to do when you’re planted when
you’re close to God but you’re feeling
undervalued look at Genesis 29 verse 16
it says now Laban had two daughters
okay so Laban is Jacob’s funcle’ the
older daughter was named Leah
everybody say Leah okay I want you to
remember these characters and the
younger one was Rachel everybody say
Rachel okay these are two sisters Leah
and Rachel
there was no sparkle in Leah’s eye that
means she had a great personality
aka she was ugly I just want you to
interpret this scripture properly when
somebody is like yes he had no sparkle
in her life that means you’re ugly and
put Rachel Rachel had a beautiful pig
figure and a lovely face since Jacob was
in love with Rachel look who Jacob was
in love with Rachel he told
father I’ll work for you for seven years
if you give me that fine piece of tender
Romney over there named Rachel your
younger daughter asked my wife
agreed Laban replied I’d rather give her
to you than to anyone else stay and work
with me
so Jacob worked for seven years to pay
for Rachel that’s how much he valued her
I don’t know what she had going on but
he worked for seven years for this woman
okay but check this out he said his love
for her was so strong that it seemed to
him but be but a few days what did she
do to him finally the time came for him
to marry her
Laban haha I fulfilled my agreement now
give me my wife so I can sleep with her
so Laban invited everyone in the
neighborhood and prepared a wedding
feast watch this but that night
everybody say that night in the dark
watch this when it was dark
Laban took Lea the one that that didn’t
have a sparkle the older sister he took
her to Jacob and he slept with her Laban
had given Leah a servant named Zilpha
Zilpah to be her maid but when Jacob
woke up in the morning yeah you like
that okay it was Leah what have you done
to me
Jacob raged at Laban I worked seven
years for Rachel
why did you trick me baby Jake this is
pimp daddy it’s not our custom here to
marry off the younger daughter ahead of
the firstborn but wait until the bridal
week is over and then we will give you
Rachel to two for the price of one if
you promise to work another Seth
in years so Jacob agreed to seven more
years
a week after Jacob had married Leah
Raven gave him Rachel – and she and she
also got a servant so Jacob slept with
Rachel to watch this and he loved her
much more than Leah or it could be say
he valued Rachel more than Leah or it
could be said that leah was under valued
can want everybody to get this picture
he then stayed and worked for Laban the
additional seven years today is a
message for people who may have an area
in their life that looks like leah that
you’re in an unfair situation that
you’ve been put at a disadvantage you’re
mixed up in stuff you didn’t even ask to
be in and you’re feeling undervalued at
your job you’re feeling insignificant at
the things that God has called you the
people around you don’t value who you
are and this is so crazy because a lot
of times something you value is
determined by how much it’s worth or let
me say it a different way
how much you’re willing to pay for it
and Jacob was willing to pay 14 years of
his life to be with Rachel she must have
been the most amazing woman in the world
because he was willing to get tricked
and work another seven years just to be
with her but imagine how leah must have
felt to be sitting here married to a man
that wouldn’t give anything for her
while she’s watching him give up his
everyday life for somebody else it’s so
crazy that many times when we find
ourselves in life situations the
situations that make us feel undervalued
somehow we seem tied to them we seem
like we can never get away from this job
like like we can never get away from
this feeling or we can never get away
from our family’s perception of us when
we were younger and yeah i wild out but
that’s not who I am anymore but now they
undervalue you because you made a
mistake
can immaturity there’s so many of us
that find ourselves in under valued
positions and what ends up happening is
we convince ourselves and allow the
enemy to convince us that maybe we can’t
move forward in those areas because
nobody sees what God place on the inside
of you let me help you nobody has to see
see when you are planted there is so
much going on under ground that nobody’s
supposed to see that God is working
character in you and fruit into your
life and he’s healing you so many times
under the surface but we have to realize
that if nobody co-signs us God still
called us we have to realize that it may
not be that everybody will be able to
praise you or pay you or see who you
really are before you become it but will
that stop you because for Leah it
stopped her she did she didn’t know what
to do because she felt undervalue
imagine waking up every morning and the
husband say honey good morning and you
knew they weren’t talking to you imagine
going to a job that you know they don’t
want you at imagine going to a school
where you know you’re not supposed to be
there and they remind you you’re not
supposed to be there oh I just want
everybody to see leah was under valued
and some of us may say that’s not fair
can I help you understand something life
it’s not fair we live in a fallen world
and if everybody everybody got what they
deserved all of us would deserve hail
but thank God for His grace but what
ends up happening is how what do we do
when we feel undervalued in a marriage a
career a relationship you can’t quit I
came to help somebody understand today
because I’ve been filling the burden all
week that people were about to give up
in a space because others did not value
what God made in you that’s valuable you
don’t need
any body else to validate what God has
placed inside of you as long as he said
it he will be faithful to perform it in
your life and I want you to see what
happens in Leah’s life look at verse 31
I love this it said when Leah’s when the
Lord saw that leah was unloved or let me
say it a different way when the Lord saw
that leah was in an undervalued
situation the man she was married to
didn’t even want her her sister was
probably in competition with her from a
very young age she was in an undervalued
situation he enabled everybody say
enable God enabled her to have children
and Rachel could not conceive let me
give you my first point when you’re
planted and undervalued don’t allow the
pain to prevent you from producing see
well they don’t want me here
I’m not supposed to be here I’ve been
disqualified
I don’t have what it takes and God says
I see you that’s what he told Leah I saw
that she was unloved I saw that she was
in a situation where she was undervalued
and I sent my grace not to take her out
of the situation to enable her in the
situation he enabled her to reduce even
though she was in a situation that
brought her pain and so many times us as
believers we equate pain with stop
struggle stop pain stop but we get we
get denied stop but as I find and read
the Word of God
obstacles are setups all the time for
God to come through and when we’re in a
situation where there is pain discomfort
when we feel under that may be the exact
sign that you need to keep moving
forward in your faith
and this young lady in an on unfavorable
situation in a situation where she knew
that she was not even wanted to be there
God said I will give you grace or the
divine enablement to be able to produce
even when there’s pain I came to tell
somebody today
that God is going to give you the
ability to grow even though you’re gonna
be able to grow even though they don’t
want you there you’re gonna be able to
grow yo hold on I hear the presence of
God speaking to somebody you’re gonna be
able to grow even though you’re under
estimating you’re gonna be able to grow
even though you’re under-qualified well
God I don’t even know how I got this job
and they know I don’t have the
credentials but you there and either
you’re going to make yourself die in a
position that God has automatically
called you to be fruitful in or you’re
gonna say if God’s called me to this
he’s gonna be faithful to empower me to
do more than what I could do on my own
and I know I know I know I know I know I
know you’ve been trying to do it on your
own and you want everybody to clap for
you every step of the way but I’m here
to let you know right now
external voices will never tell me my
value cuz until I go back to the Creator
a creator can only place value on what
it made and so many of us because we
don’t have value we have stopped because
we let what somebody else told us wasn’t
good what somebody else said we needed
to do with somebody else what we
believed when we saw and compared
ourselves to somebody else well if I’m
gonna be successful I got to do this
this do this and God said I use the
foolish things to make people who smart
be like how did that happen
but the thing I have to make you realize
is do not negate the season that you’re
in because it’s painful and stop
producing I want you to go to the job
where don’t nobody expect you to do
nothing and be the best salesperson
God will give you ideas and witty
inventions and and and and you pray in
that place and you say father God I’m
yours
you can use me how else you want he
wants his glory to be seen everybody say
through me not at church in the world
like and so what I need you to
understand is that many times as
believers we rather go sit in the corner
and make God deliver us Lea doesn’t get
delivered out of this situation she
produces in it you and this is i
prophesy to somebody that you in this
season will have the ability and the
grace to grow even though somebody said
i’m gonna grow even though yeah you
don’t even believe it yet look what
happens in Leah’s life Genesis 29 verse
31 so Leah became pregnant and gave
birth to a son can I tell you how
powerful this is because the one who had
value couldn’t produce Rachel was the
one that Jacob loved but Leah was the
one who was actually bringing value to
the situation like she was this guarded
leah was discarded by the person she had
attached her her affections to but she
was the only one that could actually
produce in this season and she was
discounting what God had placed in her
because she was comparing herself to
somebody else that was not her and she
was able to negate a season that God was
producing in her to be something that
she was never committed and supposed to
be can I help you understand back in
this time to have a son was the most
important thing you could ever do
because the family was carried on
through the legacy of sons and so she
comes into the situation where she is
undervalued but she produces and watch
what happens
she said she became pregnant with the
son she named him Reuben oh my god you
having a boy his name Reuben okay this
is her friend Laquisha and she said and
she said what there Reuben mean what is
his name mean the Lord has noticed my
misery
and now my husband will love me I want
you to see what she did she took a
season where God was trying to make her
fruitful and she reminded herself of how
unworthy she was she named her child the
pain that she was in and she hoped that
by producing this child it would somehow
make somebody who didn’t see her value
in the first place
love her she said hopefully my husband
will love me now that I’ve produced for
him and so many of us go to jobs and are
in families and do different things and
we’re producing hoping that we’ll get
the affection of a person we’re trying
to be the best son and the best daughter
and the best way and the best husband
and we’re trying to attach our identity
to somebody who wouldn’t even pay for us
in the first place she had started to
find her identity in the man who didn’t
even warn her and how many of us go to
jobs and die if we lose that job and
they will move on if you die like
literally you die if you physically die
the job ain’t gonna stop and we go home
stress and mad at our husband and wife
and frustrated with life over cuz we
hooked our identity to something who
doesn’t even care about us it doesn’t
matter how many sales you make and how
many zeros you have your identity and
your value cannot be found in what you
do it has to be found in who you are and
many of us have no concept like Leah
didn’t have a concept so what she
started doing is what all default humans
do is we attach what we do to who we are
and maybe if I do better I am better and
maybe if I make more I am more and maybe
if I have more people will value me for
what I feel like I truly am and this
woman she has one child and she didn’t
learn her lesson she said she said I’m
gonna maybe my husband the one who
didn’t value me in the first place
because he didn’t see that I was worth
it
the beginning maybe he’ll love me and
then look what it says in verse 33 soon
she became pregnant again oh that wasn’t
enough I didn’t do enough for you
let me produce some more for you and she
gave birth to another son oh my god girl
you just having babies everywhere look
at you what you gonna name this phone
with you gonna name this one his name is
Simeon okay Sammy and Simeon I thought
Sammy was better but Simeon okay girl
what is Simeon mean the lord has noticed
and heard I was unloved and has given me
another son she again for the second
time takes her blessing remember her
sister can’t get pregnant she takes her
blessing and names it out of her pain
and many times that would be the trick
of the enemy is for God to be blessing
us but us to say that it’s not enough
because it’s not something that that
that we wanted or or God maybe this will
make somebody else love me or like me or
all this other stuff and this woman
didn’t learn her lesson not just a
second time but third time look what it
says in verse 34 then she became
pregnant a third time oh my god girl you
are a boy factory you just be having
these babies Papa Papa if you haven’t
another son oh my god lay hands on me
and see what’s you gonna name this one
oh I I probably already know God has
seen me kill me now like because but
think about it she’s only been
connecting her pain to her value and
look what she names it she was right
surely this time my husband will feel
affection for me since I have given him
three sons what happens when enough
never is enough
what happens when you can do everything
you can to try to prove yourself to
people and tell let them know you
changed and try to prove it but it’s
never enough
point number two I want you to see it so
clearly when you are planted and
undervalued produce on purpose but not
for approval stop producing for approval
from people because so many of us are
connected just like alia was listen
listen
she was getting her value from Jacobs
validation she thought if she produced
more she would be approved but I need
you to understand that nobody nobody
will be able to value you the way that
God has valued you this is a classic
case of not knowing who you are that’s
why you have to realize what you are
worth because if you don’t know what
you’re worth somebody else will put
their price tag on you and so many of us
are on sale and on clearance and we all
come on somebody we are settling for so
much less than who we are and what God’s
placed us to be and we’ll take anything
and we’ll accept anything but you are
worth more you are worth more than
working at that job for the rest of your
life answering to somebody else you are
worth more than that to am booty call
I’m coming to your house you are worth
more the problem is you don’t believe it
and you can never convince somebody on
sale that they are worth more if they’ve
never seen anybody hold the standard can
I help you there’s some name-brand
clothing that don’t go under a certain
price even if it don’t sell because we
need you to know that we’re worth more
than what you would normally pay for I’m
here to tell you as sure as I’m standing
here today that there are some people
who have been settling for less because
you didn’t know that you were brand-name
that that the same material that that
makes tennis shoes for pay less is the
same material that makes tennis shoes
for Nike but the problem is is the
branding pay let’s put a value of $14.99
on their shoes Nike not because it’s a
different material it’s because of who
the Creator is and what check it has on
it has now taking a value of a hundred
and seventy nine dollars and if you see
some Nikes for $14.99 you think it’s the
counterfeit because you know that that
product is worth more somebody say worth
more I need you to hear me preach this
to you that you are worth more than what
somebody has labeled G you are worth
more than the mistake you made you may
be undervalued by everybody else but
they can’t set your value cuz they
didn’t create you I’m trying to tell you
that God has made you everybody say
worth it find three people and say
you’re worth it you’re worth it
encourage somebody prophesy to them
you’re worth it see see the problem is
oh I feel the presence of God because
somebody’s about to understand
somebody’s getting out of relationship
today where you’ve been settling for
less some of y’all are gonna start your
business playing today
you ain’t just gonna leave your job but
you gonna start this business player
because you say I’m worth more than that
y’all not gonna play me for seven years
so oh something y’all are gonna make a
decision that you’re worth it you’ve
been undervalued and let me tell you a
secret you’ll keep being undervalue
until you believe you’re worth more who
cares what your parents thought you were
worth
who cares what your friends told you
were worth who cares
what what lie you believed because
honestly there’s some of us that
believed a lie at one point and now the
lie has become our identity
like people say stuff like I’m shy no
you were hurt at one point in your life
it affected you and now you actually
have in you the ability to get up here
and do what I’m doing or go to the
nation’s but you believed a lie and now
it has created your identity and now
when somebody asks you who are you it’s
like I’m just a reserved quiet what no
you’re not you’re loud and obnoxious and
God and God put that in you and he
wanted to refine it and define it so you
could be but you believed and I’m coming
here to spark somebody’s faith to
reclaim your worth I’m telling you there
are marriages in this place that are
supposed to help other marriages out of
your pain you’re supposed to produce out
of your pain but you believe the lie
that nobody’s going through this and you
believed a lot that if they really know
what’s going on then nobody else do you
know that people relate to your
authenticity do you know that God’s
strength is made perfect in your
weakness I’m telling you that you’re
worth it and Lia’s still didn’t get it
cuz she hadn’t read Colossians 3:23
Colossians 3:23 you need to remember
this it says work willingly so for
everybody that thought there was gonna
be lazing be like I’m just gonna sit in
my room and seek the Lord until he may
be found no work see the first word of
that work and we got an attitude
adjustment we’re not gonna be mad we’re
not gonna be frustrated we’re not gonna
be walking around you don’t see my value
you don’t see my value you don’t see if
you’re not gonna do that you’re gonna
work willingly at whatever you do so if
you’re the cafeteria lady or or you are
the CEO of a fortune 500 company
whatever you do you are gonna do it as
though you were working for though why
it doesn’t matter what you value me at
is cuz you really not in charge of who I
am like like like like you can you can
pay me what you think I’m valued at but
you’ll never be able to pay me what I’m
worth
I need somebody to understand that right
now because I’m not doing this job for
you and I’m not serving my family to get
a well done from you and I’m not giving
so the pastor can say you’re a good guy
I’m doing everything I do as on – that’s
why integrity is such a big deal you
don’t do a good thing on the platform
where everybody can see God sees when
you cut the corner and you cut the
person off and flip him off he see
somebody said oh my god
everything you do do it as unto the Lord
and look he put this part in here for
the remedial people like me cuz I was
like okay everything I was unto the Lord
okay yeah and he said remember no no he
said do everything as you’re working for
the Lord rather than for people so
either here’s your here’s your dynamic
either I’m doing this for God or I’m
doing it for people these are your only
two options either I’ma be a good
husband so my wife can think I’m a good
person I’m gonna be a good husband
because I’m doing this as unto the Lord
so that means when she gets on my nerves
I will still take out the trash cuz baby
this ain’t even for you
I’m telling you somebody’s gonna get it
Judah made me frustrated and I want to
rip this presentation up but I’m about
to present it with joy cuz I am NOT
doing this for you I’m doing it for all
y’all better hear me
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you’re gonna start walking away saying
this ain’t for you like I need you to
remember
look what verse 24 said everybody say
remember this is the Battle of your life
to remember that the Lord not your job
not people not relationship the Lord
will give you an inheritance as a reward
your reward comes from God
and that the master you are serving is
Christ that is there’s some I could
preach that for an hour all I need you
to know is that if you’re getting your
value from anybody else other than God
you will always feel undervalued cuz
nobody has put the price tag on you to
be able to even come close to what God’s
placed inside of you so you can’t even
work as on two people everything I do
why I prepared messages why I love my
family why it’s not because of the check
I get and it’s not cuz y’all come y’all
can leave tomorrow and I would be good
cuz my value is not in what I do my
value is in who I am and many of us
cannot separate what you do and who you
are that’s why when you meet somebody
the first thing you ask them is what do
you do what you do and and some of us be
fabricating the most amazing names like
y’all know those people
I am a sanitary collection agent you
mean little trash like because somehow
if I don’t do something well enough I
don’t do something that has a status I’m
not but I can pick up trash but baby I’m
treasure do you understand what I’m
saying I like like what I do and who I
am are disconnected the only problem is
many believers people who have said the
prayer who come to church do not know
their identity in Christ and so where
the purpose of the thing is
not known abuse is inevitable and so
many people are letting the enemy tell
you and suggest to you what you are
you’re greedy
no no I’m not maybe I know you’re scared
of the future I’m not scared I’m just a
planner but but maybe I’m scared of the
future because you don’t know who you
are but somebody say I am that song they
sang today I am who you say I am I don’t
know I was in worship but I started I
start getting gangster I was like I am
Charles II I am like I was like because
how many times do we forget who we are
there are certain things that you need
to know and I’m gonna help somebody let
me give you some scriptures right now to
let you know I am I need you to say what
you’re says chest somebody say I am
somebody say I am accepted what you need
to know according to John 1:12 is I am a
child of God according to Ephesians 1 3
and 8 I am chosen by God according to
Colossians 2 and 9 I am complete in
Christ
somebody shout at me I am I am secure I
am free from condemnation according to
Romans 8 1 and 2 I am established and
planted according to second Corinthians
1 and 21 I am confident that things are
working for my good somebody shot at me
I am well I feel the presence of God in
this place you got to know that no
matter what anybody external says who
you somebody again shot at me I am yeah
yeah yeah yeah somebody is starting to
break through somebody’s fear right now
it’s starting to break through
somebody’s doubt right now some of you
need to know I am significant I know
your family didn’t value you you were
the black sheep of the family you were
the one they didn’t pay for the college
you’re the one that had the setback but
I am significant and you need to believe
that right now according to first
Corinthians 3:16 I am God’s temple he
could have chosen any other vessel to
live into but he thought enough of me to
take his rest
in me I am God’s house you need to know
that I am God’s workmanship every curve
every let me stop every wrinkle and
dimple I am God’s workmanship I don’t
have to be what you say I am I am God’s
workmanship I am equipped to do this
according to Philippians 4:13 somebody
shot at me I am valued say it again I am
valued it’s probably the first time many
of you have ever said it you’ve accepted
whatever the people in authority over
you have told you you were so if you’re
a parent and you told your kids you just
nosey and remember God doesn’t plant
trees he plants so it’s a parent’s job
to help cultivate the seeds that you so
nosy
what was was was cold with sin nature
for somebody who was trying to actually
be investigative and help people don’t
you just want to know the business no I
want to get to truth and we shut things
down in people at a young age we shut
things down in people because we don’t
want to cultivate but what you can’t
realize is God’s reclaiming some of your
value today and you’re gonna say no no
every part of me everything God made
submitted back to him is something he
wanted to be there it’s something that
he desired to be there and I am valued
and Leah still didn’t know it she had no
clue that she was accepted by God and I
remember this story that that happened
with my mom some of you guys know that I
was a music producer and that was that
was the world that I was in before I did
pastoring and so I was at the beginning
of really starting to get into my craft
and I didn’t really value myself like I
I knew I was good but I didn’t think
that you should really pay me yet cuz I
improved myself to a lot of people and
so I committed to do this entire project
I think it was 12 or 13 songs and I
committed to do this whole project seven
months worth for work for 500
y’all was making like 2 cents an hour
like like and I came downstairs one day
to the kitchen kitchen I’ll never forget
it I was so frustrated I’m about to give
up like oh this is crap my computer was
messing up and all this other stuff and
my mom looked at me she says what are
you making and if you know Brenda Todd
she’s intense about everything she said
what are you making for this project I
said $500 she said oh my god
she said you’re only making 500 I said
yes ma’am and I’m sick of it I’m about
to give up and I will never forget this
she said son you can never let somebody
set a value on you when they don’t know
what you have inside of you if you don’t
tell them what you’re worth they’ll pay
you whatever you believe you’re worth
and all I thought I was worth was $500
and something in me Rosa I said you know
what we seven songs and we got some more
songs to go I went because I started to
recognize my worth and I RINO
renegotiated the last part of the record
I said I know I told y’all that this is
how much I was worth but I had a wake-up
call
and for the rest of these songs I need
$500 a song do you know the funniest
thing happened they paid it because it
wasn’t until I believed I was worth more
and I just believed that this is the
season where some of you’re gonna say
what I’ve done in the past you can have
that but I’m telling you from here on
out my price just went up
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I’m worth more than you think I am I’m
worth more than just talking to me any
kind of way I’m worth more than not
claiming me in front of people
I’m worth the somebody shot I’m worth it
but if you believe it they’ll never
believe it
but think about it think about it it was
a cycle of being undervalued cuz leah
wasn’t valued by her father
remember he tricked her and Jacob and
took her at night
he wasn’t even proud enough to present
her to Jacob in the daylight so she was
undervalued by her own family then she
was undervalued by her husband said I’ll
pay 14 years for her you can come along
if you want think about it but the
saddest truth of this whole story is she
undervalued herself to where she named
every one of her children based on her
pain but something happened there was a
shift in Leah’s life between child 3 and
child 4 now I don’t know if somebody
sent her a link to planted not Berry and
she realized that under doesn’t mean
over I don’t know but something happened
cuz remember remember this is Genesis 29
verse 35 remember she named her son
Reuben
the Lord has noticed my misery and now
my husband will love me Simeon Lord has
heard I was unloved and has given me
another son Levi surely this time my
husband will fell affection for me and
since I have given him three sons she
attached her identity not to who she was
in God but into what she could produce
for somebody who didn’t love her but
watch what she named her fourth son it
says once again leah became pregnant
Laquisha oh my god you pregnant again
let me guess you’re gonna name this one
spawn of Satan cuz God hates me let’s
this thing cuz she’s been morbid this
whole time something happened
she says she became pregnant and gave
birth to another son and she named him
Jule
and if you know anything about names
Judah means praise and she said now I
remember she said all these negative
things last time look what she says this
time she said now somebody say now and
don’t matter what happened before at
this moment right now somebody shot at
me now
look what she says I will praise the
Lord I need you to get this in your mind
it does not matter who has not value you
up in to this point I am unhooking my
value my self-worth and everything about
me that’s been trying to get lights and
favors from you you have now been
dismissed I have made a decision now
that everybody shot at me I will do you
realize that her situation didn’t change
but her decision did God will not always
change your situation but he will give
you an opportunity to change your
position she said I am NOT gonna stay in
misery and frustration now I will praise
this means she still was undervalued but
decided everybody said decided she
decided to praise God no matter what so
I’m not going to praise him I’m not
gonna praise them I’m not gonna praise
my sons no matter what comes every time
God allows me to be fruitful every time
I produce I am NOT going to praise
anybody else except God and I came to
encourage somebody that is in this place
who has been undervalued if you have
been undervalued my last point is turn
your pain into praise I dare you to get
in the middle of the situation where
they don’t want you to feel the presence
of God and they don’t want to value you
and you are underdeveloped and I want
you to say like David said in Psalms 34
he said I will somebody shout at me I
will
bless the Lord at all times his praise
shall continually be in my mouth the
humble will hear it and think of its
goodness
it says o magnify the Lord yes me I dare
you if you are in this place and you’ve
been undervalued in any way I dare you
at this moment to turn this place into a
praise party and forget about what has
happened and turn your pain into praise
shouting a god oh you patty taking God
you want to stay here but my value is
connected to my father
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cut the music cuz you’re not gonna have
a band appraised when you get in your
car come on forget about your neighbor
turn your pain into prank gotta magnify
you I’ll bless you I’ll lift you up your
good father
yeah yeah I know it’s different I know
cuz they may not like your on Instagram
but you’re approved by God they may not
call you but God’s already called you
[Applause]
what are you saying pastor might I’m in
an undervalue situation like Leah but
the crazy thing about her situation
is that when she decided to praise the
Bible says she stopped having children
she said Oh what I do and who I am are
disconnected
oh I don’t have to have kids to throw
this into a braise party like oh I don’t
have to keep producing and giving my
life away for a job that won’t even
propre shape I don’t have and and this
is funny if you keep reading on she’ll
have more kids eventually but all the
names of her two other sons and her
daughter changed to things that bring on
glory
cuz she because she was no longer
producing for approval and I know you’d
be trying to be cute and doing stuff but
you’re trying to get somebody to clap
and God said he made you beautiful I’ve
already called you even though it’s not
your time to get on a platform yet your
steel in surpassing Mike what I do if
I’m planted and I’m undervalued just
turn your pain it’s a praise just just
just at all times when you’re driving up
to that job tomorrow that you know
they’re gonna act a fool with you you
just say God I give you glory god I
praise you right now get about to go in
here with these demons lord I thank you
that oh you better hear me
god I thank you that you allow me to be
light in the midst of darkness that your
kingdom would be established yeah yeah
you’re you’re undervalued but maybe
that’s the exact place God wants you so
that you can learn and get back your
praise
some of us have lost our praise cuz we
were in a situation that was dark and we
felt undervalued
maybe that’s the plea no you’re not
playing on the team no more yeah you
hurt yourself yeah they gave away your
scholarship yeah they gave somebody else
too promotion but why don’t you get back
you’re praised in the meantime and allow
God to turn your situation around let me
pray for your father come on hands
lifted all over this too fine I thank
you that you see us you see it’s we’re
out here saying father
some of us feel undervalued in our
marriages and homes on our jobs and our
careers but today father we are
divorcing and unhooking our identity
from what we do and we know that we are
children of God I thank you today that
somebody’s getting their faith back that
somebody’s getting their understanding
back then somebody’s gonna know that
they are not what they do but they are
called by you Holy Spirit I tickets now
all fear and I thank you that we will be
living for the approval of what we want
your well done and we will give you all
the glory and all the honor and all the
praise father right now we turn our pain
in the praise and we’ll give you a shout
in the name of Jesus come on give God
some praise
you
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