Hi, this is Victoria. Thank you so much for downloading this podcast. I believe God has amazing

things in your future. I hope you enjoy this message.

The Bible says in Genesis that we are made in the image of God. You see the image that we carry

on the inside of us has a lot to do with what we reflect. It has so much to do with what we

identify with, how we see ourselves, what we go after. In fact, our image is our source of strength

and confidence. That is really the key to living the abundant life that Jesus came to give us.

Now, our image was distorted in the garden. It was separated from God, but God said,

I'm going to rebirth this image in you. So you have been re-birthed with the image of God when

you said yes to Jesus. But too often, things that happen in our life, maybe the way we were raised,

a divorce, hurts, and pains, try to distort or smear that image that tries to cover up the true

you, the one that God created in his image. Then you begin to identify with your circumstances.

You begin to identify with the pain. When all along, God never intended these things

to hurt you. He intended you to know who you are in Christ Jesus and to identify with him and his

power that lives in you. You see, if you don't know who you are, you won't know what to identify with.

It's interesting because God knows what we're made of. He knows who we are. He knows that we

were made in his image. The question is today, do we know the image that's on the inside of us,

or how we allow things to distort that image? I was thinking the other day. The only way I know

what I look like is because I can see myself in the mirror. I get up in the morning, I wash my face,

I brush my teeth, and there I am looking back at myself. We all know what we look like only because

of the mirror. Now granted, someone can describe our looks, our physical, but if you ask two or three

people, I bet you'll get a different description every time. But when you look in the mirror,

you see the image of yourself. You know, if someone shows me a picture of a big group of people,

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