You Really Important to Jehovah!

1-2. Wetin can help us to be convince da we really important to Jehovah?

JEHOVAH people really important to him. But some of them can think da Jehovah not really love them. Maybe da because somebody na make them feel da they not important. If it na happen to you before, wetin can help you to be convince da you important to Jehovah?

² One thing da can help us da to read Bible example dem da show how Jehovah want us to treat each other. Jesus use to respect people and treat them good. By doing this one, Jesus show da he and his Pa really value people who feel da they not important. (John 5:19; Heb. 1:3) In this article, we will talk about: (1) how Jesus help people to know da they important to Jehovah and (2) how we can convince ourself da we important to Jehovah.—Hag. 2:7.

HOW JESUS HELP PEOPLE TO KNOW DA THEY IMPORTANT TO JEHOVAH

3. How Jesus treat the people in Galilee who come to him for help?

³ When Jesus wor preaching in Galilee, plenty people come listen to him and for him to heal them. Jesus say they wor “just like sheep da not get any shepherd.” (Matt. 9:36; see study notes.) Their big-big God people not use to take them to be important. They even say they “get swear behind them.” (John 7:​47-49) But Jesus show them da they wor really important. He do this one by taking his own time to teach them and heal the sick people. (Matt. 9:35) To help plenty people, Jesus also train his apostle dem to preach and he give them the power to heal different-different sickness.—Matt. 10:​5-8.

4. Wetin we can learn from the way Jesus treat people who other people take to not be important?

⁴ Jesus wor kind to the people and he treat them with respect. By doing this one, Jesus show da he and his Pa really value people who other people take to not be important. If you serving Jehovah but you feel da you not important, think about how Jesus treat the people who wanted to learn from him. This one will help you to know da you important to Jehovah.

5. Wetin we know about the woman Jesus see in Galilee?

⁵ Beside teaching group of people, Jesus also help each person. For example, when he wor preaching in Galilee, he see one woman who wor having sickness da make her to lose blood for 12 years. (Mark 5:25) According to the Law, she wor not clean. So anybody da will touch her will not be clean too. Because of da she not use to go to the synagogue to worship Jehovah with other people or even go for festival. Da mean, she use to be by herself most of the time. (Lev. 15:​19, 25) This woman wor not only suffering from her sickness, but she wor also feeling da she not important.—Mark 5:26.

6. Wetin the woman who wor suffering from the sickness do to get well?

⁶ This woman wor really suffering and she wanted Jesus to heal her. But she wor not able to go ask him to help her. Why? Maybe she wor shame because of her sickness. Or maybe she wor scare because she wor thinking da Jesus will tell her to move from among the people since she not clean. So she just touch his clothes and she wor sure da she wor coming get well. (Mark 5:​27, 28) Because she wor having strong faith, she get well. When Jesus ask the people who touch him, she confess and say da she the one touch him. How Jesus treat her?

7. How Jesus treat the woman who wor suffering? (Mark 5:34)

⁷ Jesus show the woman respect and he wor kind to her. He notice da she wor “scare and she started trembling.” (Mark 5:33) So he wor kind to her and he encourage her. He even call her “my daughter.” (Read Mark 5:34.) Da the only time in the Bible where Jesus call somebody ‘my daughter.’ Maybe he call her like da because he see da she wor really scary. But suppose Jesus wor coming talk to her any kindna way? She wor still coming get alright. But she wor always coming be feeling bad because she go among people and she touch Jesus clothes. Da true, Jesus wanted to heal the woman, but he also wanted her to know da she important to Jehovah, her loving Father. So we can see da this woman wor really happy because of the way Jesus treat her!

8. What kindna problem dem one sister from Brazil wor going through?

⁸ Today, too, some of God servant dem can suffer from sickness da can make dem to feel bad and feel da they not important. For example, Maria da regular pioneer in Brazil.a When she wor born, she wor not having foot and she wor only having one hand. She say: “My school mate dem always use to tease me and call me all kindna ugly-ugly name dem because of the way I wor looking. And sometime, the way my own family use to treat me, use to make me feel da I not important.”

9. Wetin help Maria to know da she important to Jehovah?

⁹ Wetin help Maria? When she became Jehovah Witness, the brother and sister dem in her congregation encourage her. They help her to see herself the same way Jehovah see her. She say: “The brother and sister dem da na help me really plenty, da I not even able to name all of them! I want tell Jehovah thank you plenty for giving me this wonderful family in the congregation.” The brother and sister dem in the congregation na help Maria to know da she important to Jehovah.

10. What kindna problem Mary Magdalene wor going through? (Also see the pictures.)

¹⁰ Another person Jesus help, da wor Mary Magdalene. She wor get seven demons in her! (Luke 8:2) Because this demon dem wor using her, she use to do all kind na strange-strange thing dem. And because of da, people not use to go around her. It suffer her bad way. And maybe she use to be scary and feel da nobody love her or able to help her. But Jesus move the demon dem from in her and she become his disciple. Wetin else Jesus do to help Mary Magdalene to know da she wor important to God?

11. How Jesus help Mary Magdalene to know da she wor important to God? (Also see the pictures.)

¹¹ Jesus invite Mary Magdalene to go with them when they going preach.b Because of da, she always use to benefit when she hear him teaching other people. Also, Jesus appear to her the same day he come back to life. And she wor one of the first disciple he talk with da day. Then he even tell her to go tell his apostle dem da he na come back to life. Jesus do all this one here to help Mary Magdalene to know da she wor really important to Jehovah!—John 20:​11-18.

12. Wetin make Lidia to feel da nobody love her?

¹² Just like Mary Magdalene, plenty people today can feel da nobody love them. For example, one sister name Lidia from Spain say da when her ma wor pregnant with her, she wor thinking about spoiling the belly. So when Lidia wor small, her ma use to cuss her and she wor not even having time for her. She say: “The only thing I wanted in life da for people to love me and be my friend. But because my ma not show me love, I wor convince da no matter what I do, nobody will love me.”

13. Wetin help Lidia to know da she important to Jehovah?

¹³ When Lidia start studying the Bible things change. Praying to Jehovah, reading the Bible, and the way the brother and sister dem treat her kind, convince her da she important to Jehovah. She say: “My husband can always tell me da he love me. He can always remind me about my good-good quality dem. The brother and sister dem in the congregation can do the same thing too.” Maybe you get somebody in your congregation like Lidia who need help to know da they important to Jehovah. You think you can help them?

HOW WE CAN SEE OURSELF THE SAME WAY JEHOVAH SEE US?

14. How 1 Samuel 16:7 can help us to see ourself the way Jehovah see us? (Also see the box “Why Jehovah Value His People?”)

¹⁴ Remember da the way Jehovah see you different from the way people in the world see you. (Read 1 Samuel 16:7.) Plenty people in the world can only take somebody to be important when the person looking good, get plenty money or know plenty book. But da not what Jehovah can look at. (Isa. 55:​8, 9) So try to see yourself the way Jehovah see you and not the way people in the world see you. The Bible talk about some people who use to feel da they not important like, Elijah, Naomi, and Hannah. When you reading about them, see how Jehovah show da he value them. Maybe you can write some thing dem da happen to you da show da Jehovah love you and value you. You can also make research in our publication dem about how you important to Jehovah.c

15. Why Daniel Jehovah wor really important to Jehovah? (Daniel 9:23)

¹⁵ Always know da you important to Jehovah because you faithful to him. When Daniel wor more than 90 years old, one time, he wor really feeling discourage. (Dan. 9:​20, 21) How Jehovah encourage him? God sent angel Gabriel to remind Daniel da he really important to him and da he na hear his prayer. (Read Daniel 9:23.) Wetin make Daniel really important to God? Because Daniel always use to do the right thing and he wor faithful. (Ezek. 14:14) Jehovah put this story in the Bible so it can comfort us. (Rom. 15:4) Because you can do the right thing and you faithful to Jehovah, he value you. And the same way he listen to Daniel prayer, he will listen to your prayer too.—Mic. 6:​8, ftns.; Heb. 6:10.

16. Wetin can help you to see Jehovah like your Father who love you?

¹⁶ See Jehovah like your Father who love you. He looking at you because he want help you, and not to focus on your mistake dem. (Ps. 130:3; Matt. 7:11; Luke 12:​6, 7) Thinking good-good on this one na help plenty people who use to feel da they not important. For example, let talk about one sister name Eliana from Spain. For plenty years, her husband use to tell her all kindna bad-bad thing dem. So it make her to feel da nobody love her and she not important. She say: “Anytime I start feeling da I not important, I can try to imagine Jehovah holding me in his hand, showing me love and protecting me.” (Ps. 28:9) One sister name Lauren from South Africa, say, “Jehovah na bring me to hisself, he na help me to serve him for all this years and he even na use me to teach other people. All this one show da I really important to him.”—John 6:44.

17. How you can know da Jehovah happy with you? (Psalm 5:12) (Also see the picture.)

¹⁷ Be convince da Jehovah happy with you. (Read Psalm 5:12.) David say da when Jehovah happy with you, it looking just like “large shield” da can protect righteous people. So when you start feeling da you not important, remember da Jehovah happy with you and he able to protect you and help you. Knowing this one can help you to not be discourage. How you can know da Jehovah happy with you? One way da through the Bible. Beside da, he can use the elder dem, your close friend, and other people to remind you da you important to him. So wetin you mon do when other people encourage you?

18. Why you mon accept it when people tell you good-good thing dem about yourself?

¹⁸ Be happy when people who know you and love you tell you good-good thing dem about yourself. Remember da Jehovah can be using this people dem to help you to be convince da he happy with you. Eliana who we talk about before say: “I start learning small-small to accept it when other people tell me good-good thing dem about myself. It can be hard for me to believe them, but I know da what Jehovah want me to do.” The elder dem na also help Eliana to know da Jehovah happy with her. Now-now, she regular pioneer and she can volunteer to Bethel.

19. Why you can be convince da you important to God?

¹⁹ Jesus say da we really important to Jehovah our heavenly Father. (Luke 12:24) So we can be convince da Jehovah value us. Let always remember this one! And let all of us do our best to help other people to know da they important to God!