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    Precious King’S Daughters: Seeing Yourself as Christ Sees You: Loved, Forgiven, Redeemed, Treasured, His Delight, His Masterpiece and Crown of Glory
    Precious King’S Daughters: Seeing Yourself as Christ Sees You: Loved, Forgiven, Redeemed, Treasured, His Delight, His Masterpiece and Crown of Glory
    Precious King’S Daughters: Seeing Yourself as Christ Sees You: Loved, Forgiven, Redeemed, Treasured, His Delight, His Masterpiece and Crown of Glory
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    Precious King’S Daughters: Seeing Yourself as Christ Sees You: Loved, Forgiven, Redeemed, Treasured, His Delight, His Masterpiece and Crown of Glory

    By Kemi Adefarakan

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    Do you feel broken, condemned, worthless, lost and unable to see beyond your past? Do you believe your past has disqualified you from becoming the woman God created you to be?

    You are very valuable to Goddespite the mess that your life may be right now, despite the ugliness that you may see in your life, and despite everything that you feel right now. God wants you standing tall and beautiful. He wants you to be an example of His mercy, grace, and love. He wants you to radiate His glory and beauty.

    God is able and willing to take what may be broken, and put it back together. He takes what may seem worthless and restores its worth. He takes what may be dirty and old, and He washes and cleans it up to become new.

    Our trash is Gods treasure. We throw people away when we reject, condemn, and judge them, but what we dont realize is that we are all Gods treasure. We may have been discarded by others, but God will never discard us. He creates only masterpieces, unique works of art that are meant to be treasured because of their great worth. You are a designers originalHis masterpiece. Dont let people tell you that you have made too many mistakes or done too many ungodly things and that you have become trash. No matter what you have done in your past. Nothing can change who you are or how He sees you-You are and will always be His daughter.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWestBow Press
    Release dateSep 8, 2014
    ISBN9781490846248
    Precious King’S Daughters: Seeing Yourself as Christ Sees You: Loved, Forgiven, Redeemed, Treasured, His Delight, His Masterpiece and Crown of Glory
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    Kemi Adefarakan

    Kemi is a wife, a mother of two boys, and a lawyer. She is a pastor’s kid who was lost and who now has a heart to help young women discover or rediscover who they are in Christ.

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      Precious King’S Daughters - Kemi Adefarakan

      Copyright © 2014 Kemi Adefarakan.

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the publisher except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

      Scripture taken from the King James Version of the Bible.

      Scriptures taken from the Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.™ Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved worldwide. www.zondervan.com The NIV and New International Version are trademarks registered in the United States Patent and Trademark Office by Biblica, Inc.™ All rights reserved.

      Scripture taken from the Amplified Bible, Copyright © 1954, 1958, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1987 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission.

      All Scripture quotations in this publications are from The Message. Copyright (c) by Eugene H. Peterson 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2002. Used by permission of NavPress Publishing Group.

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      ISBN: 978-1-4908-4625-5 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4908-4626-2 (hc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4908-4624-8 (e)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2014913464

      WestBow Press rev. date: 02/09/2015

      Contents

      Acknowledgments

      Introduction

      1. Declaration

      2. Lost and Found, But Who Am I?

      3. Rejected … Why?

      4. Issues

      5. Fear

      6. Perception

      7. Captive

      8. Mixed Multitudes/Riffraff

      9. Roll Away the Stone

      10. Beautiful Handiwork of God

      11. The King’s Daughters

      12. Because Jesus Does Not Say It

      13. Celebrate You

      14. A Letter to My Precious Daughters

      15. Landing—End of the Flight, But the Journey Continues

      16. An Open Invitation from Me to My Daughters

      Appendix

      This book is

      dedicated to every girl out there—every girl who thinks she is not worth loving and who does not see anything of value in herself; every lady who does not love herself and who thinks she is not worth much. We are all God’s workmanship, created in His image.

      This book is dedicated to every woman who has made so many mistakes and taken so many wrong steps that she feels God cannot forgive her; every girl who feels ashamed by all that has happened to her and all that she has done but does not know how to find her way back to God. You don’t have to look very far. He is as close to you as you can imagine. He is a cry away from you. God is love. He loves you more than you can ever imagine, no matter what you have done.

      It is dedicated to every church girl who is feeling lost, forsaken, and rejected and who is living a double life; every girl who is in the prison of her past, shame, and pain. God has overturned your prison sentence. You are free because there is liberty in Him.

      It is dedicated to every woman who is blind to her worth. You are His beloved, His masterpiece.

      Acknowledgments

      I want to say a big thank-you to Wale, my loving husband. This book would not have been possible without his support and encouragement. Thank you for loving me unconditionally. To my two wonderful kids, Samuel and Emmanuel, thanks for teaching me so much and understanding. There were so many times when Mummy did not have the time to play all the games you wanted Mummy to play. To my wonderful parents, thank you for all your prayers and your support. To my siblings, thank you for always being there for me. Above all, I say a big thank-you to God. I lost my way for a while, and He brought me back. Thank you, God, for not giving up on me and loving me through it all.

      Introduction

      As a King’s daughter, I am a treasure chest full of precious pearls, too valuable to let myself become a marketplace where people come in and out devaluing my worth.

      I was like a puzzle piece out of place until I found myself in God. Now I fit perfectly.

      Do you know that every time God sees you, which is all the time, He smiles? You put a smile on His face because He created you in His image, and you are the apple of His eye. He loves you so very much, and He calls you His beloved.

      My life, like so many, is a story of God’s grace, mercy, love, and forgiveness. I would not be here if God’s grace, mercy, love, and forgiveness had not embraced me and made me whole again.

      This book is about helping you redefine the way you see yourself, helping you to become the woman God created you to be. The way you see yourself should not be based on your past, your mistakes, your issues, or man’s label of you or anything else. The way you see yourself must be based on the truth—the Word of God. No matter how bad your past was, how far away you journeyed from God, the mistakes you made, or what your issues are, God does not condemn you. He loves you. He is able to restore or replace for you the years that the locust has eaten—the hopping locust, the stripping locust, and the crawling locust (Joel 2:25). I pray I am able to show you how valuable you are to God, so that you can begin to rise above all that has held you down. It is time for you to become the woman God has created you to be, but you can only do that when you discover who you are and whose you are and the treasure that God has placed inside of you.

      So many ladies feel like I felt—like a piece of the puzzle that was out of place—lost; condemned; stuck in the past; imprisoned by fear, shame, and different issues; and unable to see a bright future because it was clouded by all those issues. I felt like that for a long time until I discovered who God created me to be, who I am in Christ—justified, acquitted, declared free in Christ, redeemed, saved, precious, loved, treasured, His masterpiece, and created by God to look like Him, act like Him, and reign as a precious King’s daughter.

      I am no longer a captive of my thoughts or the lies of the devil.

      I wrote about self-worth, love, and beauty, not so much about looking good on the outside but allowing the beauty of Christ to shine forth from the inside out. There are so many things that can affect your self-worth, how you define beauty, and whether or not you love yourself.

      I went back to the very beginning—where did you and I come from? Who are you? What are you hearing and speaking to yourself?

      You are your own best advocate. When you don’t know who you are, you allow what others say about you to define who you are. You allow the negative words others say to you become what you continuously hear in your mind, like a recording that keeps playing on and on and that can affect how you see yourself. Our society is so focused on external beauty. We pay so much money to look good. We spend so much time and effort looking good, but I have never seen anyone have true beauty without Christ. Many are like well-wrapped gifts but when opened, there is nothing to be desired inside. Why do we spend so much time, money, and effort on things that don’t and won’t last? Why do we forsake the important things for less important things?

      God has placed so much treasure on the inside of us. Our lives have replaced the tabernacle and the temple where God once lived. We are now dwelling places for the most precious person, the Holy Spirit. We are precious and special, and our worth cannot be determined or estimated by what people can see, because there is so much greatness on the inside of us. Don’t allow anyone to put a price tag on your life or tell you how much you are worth. Don’t negotiate your worth with anyone—you are non-negotiable. Your scars can become beautiful. It all depends on your perception, and when you release your scars and ashes to God, He replaces it with beauty (Isaiah 61:3).

      I have been on a very interesting journey with God, discovering who I am in Christ.

      When I was younger, I never really bothered with my weight or size, but after giving birth to two kids, my body changed. I gained some weight, lost the weight, and gained back some. I became very angry with myself for putting the weight back on. I did not like the fact that most of the new clothes I’d worn when I lost weight did not fit anymore. The media did not make it any easier. Everywhere I looked, there was something on weight loss, and I did not seem to be able to lose the weight. I did not like to have my picture taken, because I thought people would criticize me and say I looked big. This thought process continued for a while.

      One day, after I had finished praying, the Spirit of God ministered to me that true beauty is not determined by how much I weigh, what I look like on the outside, the size of my clothes, or any external thing. It has to do with the beauty that comes from knowing and spending time with God. That really opened my eyes, and it changed my perception and how I saw myself. Don’t get me wrong—I love to dress up. I love looking good. Anyone who knows me will tell you that I love to look good, but since then, I have come to realize that no matter how good I look on the outside, how expensive my clothes are, or what size I wear, I will never truly be beautiful without really knowing God and having a relationship with Him. The most important thing is knowing God. A woman who takes care of the outside without doing much about the inside will soon begin to fade, no matter how much she tries to avoid it. When a woman spends time with God, she radiates a beauty that no beauty treatment, no matter how expensive, can produce.

      You may come from a Christian home, but you have not truly discovered yourself. You have not truly discovered Christ for yourself. You only know Him through your parents, and you feel trapped because your friends are doing and saying one thing, while your parents and the church are saying another. Because you don’t know God personally as your Lord and Savior, you don’t know what to do. You feel like there is a struggle going on inside you.

      I can relate to that. I was born in a Christian home and got saved at an early age (I don’t think I really understood what that meant), but there were lots of times I felt lost and alone. I had a yo-yo Christian life, and I did not feel that there was anyone I could talk to about my Christian life. I would go to church, but felt there was something missing. I always carried so much guilt and condemnation. I knew about Romans 8:1—Therefore, [there is] now no condemnation (no adjudging guilty of wrong) for those who are in Christ Jesus, who live [and] walk not after the dictates of the flesh, but after the dictates of the Spirit—but it still did not work for me, because my roots were not deeply and firmly in God. I made so many mistakes. I would go to church but felt I did not have the right to lift up my hands to God, because I felt unclean. I felt that God was not happy with me. I felt so much guilt that I was always asking for forgiveness but never really forgave myself.

      So many ladies tell me that it is too late for them; that nothing good can happen to them now after all they have done. It breaks my heart when I hear people talk like that, and I know it breaks the Father’s heart, listening to that. God is love, and the Bible says in Isaiah 1:18, That though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red as crimson, they shall be like wool. And the famous John 3:16 says, "For God so loved the world that He gave

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