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The Best Self-Care in the World

Passion City Church • May 11, 2025 • 37 min

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Summary

In "The Best Self-Care in the World," Pastor Louie Giglio teaches that apart from our relationship with God, the most critical relationship in life is the one we have with ourselves. While modern culture promotes self-care centered on self, biblical self-care finds its true anchor by centering our lives around God and receiving His unconditional love. When we accept God's love, embrace our story, forgive ourselves, and align our thinking with His truth, His love healthily transforms us and overflows into how we love our neighbors.

Themes

Relationship with SelfThe Love of GodLoving Your NeighborBiblical Self-CareForgiveness and HealingIdentity in Christ

Pastor's Points

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Believe God's love for you

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Accept your story

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Choose to love yourself in the love of God

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Forgive yourself as He has forgiven you

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Let His love shape you into the person He created you to be

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Speak the truth to yourself in love

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Let that overflow into your neighbor

Key Points

1.
Believe God's love for you.
2.
Accept your story.
3.
Choose to love yourself in the love of God.
4.
Forgive yourself as He has forgiven you.
5.
Let His love shape you into the person He created you to be.
6.
Speak the truth to yourself in love.
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Let God's love overflow into your neighbor.
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Apart from your relationship with God, the most vital relationship in your life is the one you have with yourself.

Sermon Moments

“Recent studies have shown that 100% of people spend 24 hours a day with themselves.”

“The ultimate love of self is to find oneself in the love of God.”

“Humility is agreeing with God.”

“As long as self-care puts you at the center, it is not much care.”

“Regret is the negative lingering effect of the inability to receive the forgiveness of God.”

“There's nothing more attractive to the world than somebody who is at peace and in a healthy relationship with themselves.”

This Week

Meditate daily on statements of your true identity in Christ: "I am valued, wanted, prized, pursued, chosen, forgiven, delighted in, and loved."

Replace negative self-talk by speaking truth to yourself in love whenever self-criticism or self-loathing arises.

Release paralyzing regret by forgiving yourself on the basis of the complete forgiveness God has already extended to you.

Shift your daily perspective from self-centered self-care to centering your heart, mind, and soul around God.

Accept your personal story—including past scars, twists, and losses—knowing that God loves you fully right where you are.

Identify a tangible, practical need in a neighbor, coworker, or friend this week and meet it without expecting anything in return.

Act as an intentional benefactor for someone who lacks support, helping them experience God's love through your care.

Remember This

The ultimate self-care is finding yourself in the love of God and centering your life around Him, enabling you to healthily love yourself and overflow that love to your neighbor.

A Challenge for You

"I don't believe it's God's will for me to be paralyzed by regret for the rest of my life. I believe it is God's will for me to get up out of this regret and accept his forgiveness for my life and to move forward with God, loving him, centered on him with all my heart and my soul and my mind and my strength so that ultimately I can be his answer to my neighbor and I can show people on this earth who he truly is."

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