You’ve said it before. Maybe out loud. Maybe just in your head.

But you’ve said it. We all have. Maybe a hundred times. Maybe just once or twice.

You spoke these condemning words over your life: The words: I don’t matter.

And the most horrific part about those 3 words is not that they are said, but that we believe them to be true.

But you are a child of the King. You are royalty. God has designed your smile and your sense of humor. You were fashioned by the one who hung the stars in the heavens.

And that means something. You do matter. Now it’s time to believe it.

Mike Foster is the Co-Founder of People of the Second Chance (www.SecondChance.org) and the author of an innovative small group study called “Freeway: A Not-So-Perfect Guide To Freedom.”