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Dr. Kevin L. Zadai
Knowing Your Value
"God has an estimated value in Heaven that is off the charts for you, You are the most expensive thing that walks the streets of gold up there"
~ Dr. Kevin L. Zadai
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But my life is worth nothing to me unless I use it for finishing the work assigned me by the Lord Jesus—the work of telling others the Good News about the wonderful grace of God.
—Acts 20:24 NLT
DISCUSSION:
It's not the streets of gold that are valuable in Heaven that you walk on; it's you. God made you to be like Him, and you are very valuable. Through Jesus Christ, God had put our value at sky-high because He gave His only son, and the value of the son was so high that when He bought us, our value went up because we are joint-heirs with Jesus. That’s the inheritance we have, and we obtain it from God. We receive it all because we are His children. God is very wealthy; He's not stingy, and we have to frame our minds based on the kingdom of God and not the kingdom of satan in this world system down here.
They almost teach you here to gamble to gain wealth. They tell you to take chances. They have you thinking that however much you sell is how much you’ll get in return. Whereas the Lord showed me that you could gain wealth and not have to do any of that. You can invest and walk away. You don't have to do anything, and God can tell you what to invest in. There's money being made, and I'm not even looking at it. I walk away, and it's an investment that I can't even lose money on, so it doesn't matter whether I look at it or not. These are things that God does because He doesn't look at His balance sheet. He's not looking at His investments and wringing His hands, hoping that it changes direction. He's not calling on the phone and saying buy or sell. He's invested in you, and your value is sky high because God's value is sky-high. Your value is sky high because you've been adopted into the kingdom, into the family of God.
YOUR WORTH
Paul said that my worth is that I need to finish the work that has been assigned to me by Jesus Christ of telling others about the good news of the Gospel. He said, my life is worth nothing unless I do this. Just like Paul, you have an assignment to fulfill.
• Your value is based on His assignment.
• Paul had great wealth because he was obedient.
• He could have been very wealthy as a Pharisee and taught the law and been an enemy of God working against God like all the Pharisees were at the time.
• He could have just been wealthy that way, but he chose to leave that life because his value was based on what God had assigned him to.
o We seem to think that our worth is based on what we think about
ourselves rather than what God thinks and says about us, which defines our worth. You are very valuable to Him and to the kingdom of God. Your worth matters to God. Discuss this topic and ask yourselves how you will now view your worth differently?
• God can give us wisdom on how to live in this day and age.
• You can go to the marketplace to work, and you can also tell people about Jesus.
• You can prosper in your place of work. God can give you a good job, and you can still share the Gospel as well. The Lord wants you to own things, have businesses, and prosper, but He wants you to tell people about the good news of the Gospel.
• Be mindful that you don't just go to work to make money. You go to preach the Gospel, but you don't preach the Gospel to make money.
• Your worth isn’t based on what you're paid. Your worth is based on what God has already said that you're to do, and then you do it.
• Your value is based on obedience. It’s been determined beforehand, but to inherit it and participate in it, you must do what Jesus tells you to do.
• Jesus told me; I want you to go back to the earth. I said I don't want to go back. I saw my value in Heaven, and I was happy to be there, and I didn't want to come back. He said it's not about you. It's about the people that I'm sending you back to. They need to hear what you have to say.
• I realized that my value was that I was going to go back and tell people priceless things. The things that maybe they wouldn't know without me coming back and saying it.
• My value was even higher when I came back to the Earth because of what I brought back with me. The perspective that I gained is something that everybody wants.
• Everyone wants to go to Heaven and come back, but not everybody has the opportunity, and because of what I saw, I have to tell you. It is very valuable.
• My wife and I do not have careers anymore; we’re retired, and our value is still sky-high because God sent us back with a mission. We have the good news of the Gospel to tell. There’s no bad news.
• You're going to tell me all the bad things that happened today, and I'm going to say, but God's going to turn it around.
• I'm going to land on my feet every time you throw me in the air because I know that He is well able to do that which I've committed to unto Him.
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Dr. Kevin L. Zadai
• Paul's worth was in the fact that He had an assignment. We have the Bible because Paul fulfilled the assignment. He wrote about two-thirds of the New Testament.
o We all have a different purpose; what will you go on and do? What is your assignment ordained by God? If you don’t know it yet spend time in the secret place or start somewhere by going after an interest that you have. God will show up and lead you.
YOUR VALUE
1 Corinthians 6:19 NLT: Don't you realize that your body is the Temple of the Holy Spirit who lives in you and was given to you by God. You do not belong to yourself.
God bought you with a price, and He owns you. Your value has gone up because God is very wealthy. When He buys you, and you are His asset, then it's no longer you alone. You're worth more now because He bought you. Your value is higher with Him than if you were by yourself. That's how Covenant works.
You want to find people to be in covenant with them. Level up and covenant up with someone else. Those with more wealth and a bigger army have more influence, and you want to partner with people above you.
In our government, we have allies for that very reason. We partner with other governments in order to create a stronger, bigger influence so that in war, or to prevent war, we have control and a presence, and we control the money flow or the communications and the weaponry to operate efficiently. This gives us the power to decide what we are and are not going to do. We don’t have to argue because we’re part of a conglomerate or a covenant with other countries surrounding them. They’ll tend to back off because we become a bigger threat. It's the same way with satan. He backs off when the body of Christ is in unity because when we agree as touching any one thing, we're going to receive it (see Matthew 18:1).
YOUR ASSIGNMENT
Your assignment is at your job. It's not just to make money. You are a mouthpiece for God wherever you go, and you may be a prophet or a prophetess or an apostle as well. You're at your job, but you're really exercising the authority you have, and you’re influencing a lot of people. I remember this one time at work when I was a supervisor for the airlines, and one of my co-workers had a little bit of an attitude with me. Over the next two days, it just got worse, and I finally just said, “You know what, if you want, me and you will go into the office when we're done with this trip, after I'm done talking to those that are above us, and you're going to be gone. You have done nothing that you're supposed to do; it's negligent, and you're on probation, so you don't even have a recourse. You want to fight me, so let’s just go and take care of it.” He was belligerent to the point where it was almost physical, and I said, “You know what, we can take care of this, but I guarantee you, I will walk out with my job, and you will not.”
That’s how bad it was. I said that, and the next flight we were on was in Tulsa, and I was walking down the jetway to get on the airplane, and he fell to his knees, and he said, “Please forgive me.” He said, “I don't know what it is, but when I get around you, I feel something so strong around you that I feel like I have to confess my sins, and I feel so guilty around you that every time you come near me, I want to yell at you and scream at you, and he said, I hate you, but I don't know why.” He repented before me, and of course, He kept his job.
I said to him, “The Lord Jesus Christ sent me back from the dead, and I'm on this earth supernaturally, and He loves you, too.” I shared the Gospel with him, and I believe he is saved. This man confessed to me. He said, “I feel this holiness around you. Are you a priest?” He asked me because he was Catholic. He said, “I feel like I have to confess my sins to you every time you walk up to me. I feel like I'm at the confession booth.” I said, “I'm a flight attendant just like you, but I went to Heaven. I came back, and I'm on extra credit here, and that's what you feel. You feel Jesus. You don't feel me; I'm not that holy. I'm not that good.”
This is the idea of value. You are a standard in your workplace. Always be looking for people to talk to about Jesus. You may encounter situations like I did in the workplace, and even if they have evil spirits around them, once you confront those devils, that person is free and will be saved.
DISCUSS:
1. Your value with God and how you’ve been bought with a price. Talk about how you’re worth more now in covenant with Him; and when you partner with others.
2. How your body is not your own and being a mouthpiece at your job or when you’re out shopping. Be looking for people to share the Gospel message with but be prepared that they may not take to you if they have evil spirits around them. The evil spirits may not want to let go of them.
3. Paul's worth was in the fact that he finished the work. His worth was finishing the work assigned to him by Jesus, which was preaching the Gospel. Talk about your assignment at your job.
PRAYER:
In the name of Jesus, Father, I thank you for wisdom and knowledge, and Father, that you determine our worth. You determine our value, but it isn't about us, Father. It's about the people that you've sent us to. It's about the mission that you have for us. I thank you that everyone watching in Warrior Church, all my family and friends worldwide, that they are obedient, and they fulfill your calling Father, that their worth is based on the fact that they are obedient to what you have for them. Father show them what it is that you have for them and also cause them to understand that even their own body is not theirs. It's the temple of the Holy Spirit. Thank you, Father, that you help your people and give them boldness in the name of Jesus.
