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“In the name of Jesus, you will not be afraid!” or something like, “Remember, Sadie, God has not given you a spirit of fear. He’s given you power, love, and a sound mind” from 2 Timothy 1:7 NKJV.
When you sense that they are feeling frightened or anxious, you can be the one to speak the Word and help them put it to work to push back the fear that threatens them.
I can’t draw my way around any of the dots life throws at me. I have to put my pencil firmly on the paper and drag it through them.
He has a specific purpose for each of us,
The dots are the places that challenge us and shape us.
Some dots seem enormous and black, and you don’t know if you’ll ever find your way out of them.
And chances are, like me, you’ll eventually realize that with God, there are no unnecessary dots.
Embrace it, deal with it, pray about it, and find Scriptures that will help you see it as God sees it and handle it in a godly way.
TAKE NOTE: No matter what you’re going through or how you feel, there’s probably something in the Psalms that describes it.
Once they mastered them, they loved doing what they once hated.
“You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.”1
the enemy is afraid of your becoming everything God wants you to be.
If you can identify what the enemy wants you to fear, that’s the very thing you nee...
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When we deal in a healthy way with what once caused fear, pain, shame, disappointment, anger, or other negative emotions, it becomes a place of strength and happiness, a beautiful picture with all the dots connected.
You know what the enemy does sometimes? He puts fear in you—fear that you aren’t good enough, that maybe God doesn’t really love you, that even though His Word works for everyone around you, it won’t work for you.
You and I have done things we may be ashamed of, things not viewed as righteous, but when we are in Christ, they are covered by His blood and washed away.
But when we think we are the only ones who can see the ugly on the inside, we’re easily tempted to let it sit in the dark places inside of us, where it grows and gets worse.
You have to do what I call “exhale your ugly.”
It’s just like 1 Peter 5:7 says, “Give all your worries and cares to God, for he cares about you” (NLT).
We agree with the lie that tells us we aren’t good enough. We believe the lie of shame, the lie of guilt, the lie of resentment, the lie of rejection. The list goes on.
words can cause things to come alive in us or cause things to die in us.
I’ve learned since that time that holding on to ugly on the inside blinds us to the beauty that’s around us.
Today can be the day you finally let it go. Will you do it?
Just think about what it would be like to live without all that heaviness on the inside.
1. PRAY LIKE CRAZY.
Just be sure you are praying and sharing your heart with God.
2. TELL YOURSELF THE TRUTH.
One lesson I’ve learned is that you can’t tell the truth to God or to others until you first tell it to yourself.
3. GET YOUR PAIN OUT.
4. ASK GOD TO HEAL YOU.
5. SHARE YOUR HEART WITH SOMEONE YOU TRUST.
The earnest prayer of a righteous person has great power and produces wonderful results”
6. OPEN YOUR HEART TO HEALING.
7. BELIEVE GOD’S WORD.
“Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?”
“Since you are precious and honored in my sight, and
because I love you, I will give people in exchange for you, nations in exchange for your life”
“Even before he made the world, God loved us and chose us in Christ to be holy and without fault in his eyes”
“I can do all this through him who gives me strength”
God] said to
me, ‘My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.’ Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me”
These words of life will keep you grounded in how God views you and thinks about you for the rest of your life.
Having the Word in our hearts and minds not only keeps us from sinning against God, as Psalm 119:11 says, it also strengthens us when we feel weak, gives us courage when we are afraid, and gives us peace when everything around us seems out of control.
1. LEGENDS KNOW THAT GOD IS ON THEIR SIDE.
2. LEGENDS DON’T LET THEMSELVES BE INTIMIDATED.
3. LEGENDS REMEMBER WHO THEY ARE, WHO GOD IS, AND WHAT THEY HAVE ACCOMPLISHED.
4. LEGENDS FIGHT WITH THEIR OWN ARMOR.
5. LEGENDS GIVE GOD THE GLORY.
I could not let what other people thought or said about me affect what I thought and said about myself.
It’s time to stop relying on other people for your sense of value and to stop letting their opinions determine what you think about yourself. I challenge you to do that.
