How to Attack Approval Addiction

Changing Your World Podcast with Creflo Dollar

World Changers Church International

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.7 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2024

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Being addicted to others’ opinions of us is extremely destructive. An excessive need for people to approve and validate us can cause guilt, shame, and insecurity in us. This kind of addiction leads us to seek others’ approval before we can value ourselves, and causes us to greatly fear rejection and disapproval from people who do not even care about us. It can lead to anxiety, depression, and mental health issues. Craving others’ acceptance and forgetting that God has already accepted us is tragic; realizing that He approves of us helps us break this addiction. Our mental outlook and self-respect immediately begin to improve when we decide that we like ourselves, regardless of what others think. We will not need the world’s validation when we know that we are already God’s beloved, and the apple of His eye.

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0:00.0	Hello I'm Creflow Dollar and this is the Creflow Dollar Ministries podcast.
0:05.2	I want to thank you for joining us today and I sincerely hope this word encourages you,
0:10.6	builds your faith and above all else helps you to understand grace and
0:15.6	empowers you to change. Enjoy the message. If you have your Bibles, go with me to the
0:20.9	Book of 1st Samuel, chapter 15 in verse 24 last week we began
0:26.0	talking about overcoming approval addiction which appears to be a pretty big foundation for a whole lot of other things to operate
0:41.1	in people's lives.
0:43.0	For example, if you live under a burden of guilt,
0:47.0	if you live under a burden of shame or condemnation,
0:51.0	if you experience feelings of insecurity, experience some unworthiness, low self-esteem, worth, if you have an
1:05.0	if you have an excessive need for approval,
1:09.0	if you have an excessive need for validation,
1:12.0	for acceptance from other people to make you feel valued? You're most likely
1:20.0	an attic. What type of attic? An approval attic, addicted to approval, because you fear
1:30.4	rejection and you fear judgment, you fear judgment you fear disapproval from others to the point
1:39.2	where you try your best to avoid from rocking the boat at all costs. It's the
1:47.1	scariest thing that you could experience the fact that if I don't gain their approval I'm probably going to have to deal with feelings of a low self-esteem because I depend on the approval of others to determine the value I'll have of myself.
2:10.0	Now that is involved in a lot of arenas, including the pulpit, including Christians.
2:19.8	A lot of arenas in this area of, in a day in time of social media,
2:26.0	needing the approval of the social media platform
2:29.1	with the comments and the shares and it's all over our country where you are willing to do almost anything
2:43.4	to gain the validation and the approval from somewhere else
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