hello everyone welcome to follow him favorites my name is Hank Smith and I'm here with the amazing John by the way hello John I Hank and it is follow him favorites time this week the lesson is in the Book of Numbers when you might not think John that you can get a lot of the book of numbers but you'd be surprised the original math book The Book of Numbers right. So in the Book of Numbers I wanted to focus in on one question that comes from a burst numbers 13:33 Israelites are supposed to go in and take the promised land in South Moses sent 12 Spies in there and 10 of them come back and they're scared to death they don't think they can do it I want to show you what they say about how they see themselves cuz our question is going to be how do I see myself the way the Lord sees me right how do I see the value that he sees they come back and they say to Moses Moses we can't do it the people over there are giants and then they say a 33 and we were in our
 on-site grasshoppers now that's an interesting thing to see yourself as right that you look in the mirror and you see if you see a grasshopper but I wrote down in my scriptures how do you see yourself and that can be different often times than what the Lord sees if you were talking to the young adult a teenager John and they said I don't see what the Lord sees what advice would you offer them I'm so glad you asked that question I remember something that Stephen Covey did once with a group of young adults or teenagers that I've never met Stephen Covey I wish I would have but he had people take a piece paper fold it in half and on one side of the pit he that was just to make it into columns and then a column on right at the top how I see myself right how others see me and he said he was a little surprised at how negative kids could be about themselves I'm very sad that I'm weird I'm strange I'm not attractive I'm whatever and they would put all these things in there and then he said on the
 I don't want you to write down how God sees me and started to go through scriptural references what is the worth of the Soul what has he done for you what has he said about you and your patriarchal blessing which is amazing your talents your kiss your capacities and they wrote all those things down on the right-hand column how does God see you and then he just asked the best question Hank you just said who you going to believe
 that's great who you going to believe who you going to believe look at that on the right side I think God sees us better than we see ourselves which is one of the reasons we love him is because he sees the best in us and he lets us repent so that has helped me a lot okay who you going to believe and I I love it the gospel that we love and embrace is always saying the most wonderful things about our capacity in our potential no matter how we see ourselves it's always telling us you're a great worth and you have great capacity now this is a conscious choice that you have to make there's there's so many subtle messages out there on social media and television everywhere the social medias you're not enough you're not pretty enough you're not attractive enough you're not smart enough you'll never be happy cuz you don't look this way or have this much money a live in this house or drive this car at there they're very subtle messages right they're just kind of underneath the surface kind of picking at you but then after a while that can create quite a canyon in your mind about the the way you feel
 you can hurt yourself in Majin your self-esteem so much that pretty soon you all you see in the mirror our faults and flaws but I like what you said who you going to believe because the numbers 14 the Lord asks that exact question he says Moses how long until the people believe me I see something in them and they don't believe me no noticed noticed he doesn't they don't believe in me that they believe in him they just don't believe I know that you've said all these wonderful things about me but I just don't know if I believe you the more we can distance ourselves from those messages the more we'll be able to hear what the Lord has to say about us I go back to my patriarchal blessing I can go to those in my family who I trust and love those are my friends who I trust and love and I can start to pick up on what they see I think it was other worst one who won set the Lord doesn't see you just you he sees the Glorious being you're going to become that's who he sees there's a self confidence that comes when you tap into that it will come in
 no other way the world can't take away god-given self-confidence he gave it to you the world can't take away what it didn't give I like to draw a graph with different words self-worth and self-esteem esteem sounds like estimation it's how I estimate my worth and it can be up and down on life circumstances are I didn't get asked to prom did get asked to prom I'm on cloud nine whatever and we kind of hand the remote control to our feelings over to somebody else and let them decide and that s team is estimated up and down but our self-worth here's the problem how can you put on a graph something that is infinite you can't put it there and one of the really wonderful examples of this idea of a steaming things and how much an error we can be is the Messianic chapter of Isaiah is Isaiah 53 so you all know who have been today has it been a tie goes in the wicked priest what are you
 Kingwood you to log Moses and he's like I was just doesn't say Jesus saved and then he reads Isaiah 53 which is mosiah 14 listen to this here is how people as steamed Jesus imagine how wrong you could Bates he is despised rejected a Man of Sorrows acquainted with grief we hid as it were our faces from him he was despised and we esteemed him not for for surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows yet we did a steam him stricken smitten of God and Afflicted that's how wrong other people's estimations can be even of Jesus who am I going to believe I'm going to go to God I'm going to go to his gospel and that is like that's a foundation on which you can build your life and you'll have ups and downs everybody does but when you come back to the gospel your building on a firm Rock
 I love it I love it I remember one time you told me you said my wife wanted to marry someone tall dark and handsome and she didn't get any of those and Kim said to you how come on you're not short and I laughed and you laughed right because we don't get our self-esteem from the way we look we don't get our self-esteem from any of those things we get our confidence from the Lord and Joshua and Caleb do in this next chapter in numbers 14 they say we can do this let's not rebel against the Lord let's not fear the Lord is with us that's the song for the Lord is on our side right that's the song that's where this comes from we don't love our grandma's because they're super models why do we love our grandma's because of our relationship are such a good nurse and such faith and devotion and we love them what a gift to be able to see ourselves the way the Lord sees us and we have evidence of how he feels about us in the scriptures in our patriarchal blessings Josh
 cousin Caleb's in this world of grasshoppers right in a world of grasshopper be a Joshua and Caleb and say no I know who I am I know the Lord sees greatness in me so I'm going to live up to that I want to be that being that he sees who you going to believe so take a look in the mirror distance yourself from those subtle messages and go back to your patriarchal blessing when you start to get a taste of it I think you're going to like it when you start to see what the Lord sees in you and you're going to feel that confidence coming you're going to act differently you're going to make different choices you're going to different boundaries for yourself and others just because of the way you see yourself it's going to be beautiful cuz you are you're beautiful inside and out completely when the Lord sees you again imagine the feelings that well up in his heart how he feels about you would be like asking John to describe one of his daughters one of his children he overflows with love is look at him go wow she's a little taller and she's got big feet right all he sees is
 pretty much Perfection right John thank you for pointing that out hanko we saw ourselves as grasshoppers okay fine how does God see you what a wonderful way to look at it and then to have the Lord tell him I I got you I'm going to be with you we can trust him I believe in me because he believes in me thanks John thanks for helping me boost my self-confidence today I'm not sure what either that's the only thing I fear there will be a Resurrection coming to have that hair in the resurrection well we hope you'll join us on our full podcast until follow him join us this week where in the book of numbers with Dr Keri millstein kind of a modern-day Indiana Jones you want to come over and visit us during this next week for another follow in favorites