Getting Past The Lies

What we will be talking about may seem to you to be something that is geared to teens girls but that simply is not the case. This is something that carries on to adulthood. We are going to talk about the lies society tells us everyday. Here are just some of the lies that society tells us.

1. "You aren't good enough."
2. "You can't do it."
3. "You will never look the way you want to."
4. "You don't do anything right."

Satin loves to use other people to hurt us. He will do anything to make us feel bad ourselves. When we don't like ourselves, how can we be all God made us to be? We can combat the lies though! We need to shift our focus on what God thinks about us and not what other people think. All too often we place our confidence in the hands of other people rather then God. I know I have done this in my own life.

What we forget and hardly think about is that God MADE us, He formed us in our mother's womb. He had all our days laid out before we took our first breath. He knows everything about us and loves us just the same. When we realize this truth and BELIEVE it, everything changes. It becomes more about God and less about us.

Here are some simple things you can do help you not give into the lies.

Read the follow passages and verses in your Bible.

. Psalm 139
. Jeremiah 29:11-13
. 1 Samuel 16:7

Look in the mirror every morning and say one thing that God thinks about you. Say something positive, speak it out so it will stick with you.

Be around people who love and care about you. Don't be around difficult people who to hurt you.

I have a challenge for you this week. We need to help each other do this. We can't do it on our own. We all know people who need God's love shown to them and need help to see how special they are. This week, I encourage you if you know someone who may need a helping hand, send them a card saying you are there for them. Please refrain from doing this by email. It will mean so much being handwritten and be more effective. If you know more then one person "adopt" a person a week who needs a hand.

We can do this, my friend! We can rise above the lies that Satin and the world tell us. It's not easy but we have God on our side. If God is on our side who can be against us? We need to fix our eyes not the world but on God and when we do, that my friends, is when everything changes and where true freedoms begins because we place our identity sorely on Christ.

Open Hearted VS Closed Hearted

I am going to start this blog by asking you a question. It is an important question so I hope you think about honestly and even take it up with God after reading this blog and pray about it. Here it is..... How open are you to what God wants to do in your life? Do you have faith that God is going to what is best OR are you trying to battle things that aren't yours. Have you let God handle the battle that you don't need to handle?

I learned a lesson this past week that changed my life forever. I learned the power of faith and what it can do it our lives. I learned that we all to often fight battles that aren't even our owns. I learned that God is the one who will ALWAYS meets our needs. I learned he is going to behind the scenes.

My family had I have just won a 4 yr battle to get me SSI. I had a hearing schedule for Oct 21st. While last week I found out that the court threw out my claim and I won. I had faith and peace that God was going to something big. I knew He was. I didn't know how much He was working behind the scenes on my behalf. I was scared even though I had faith. I was having meltdowns and panics over something that turned out wasn't even going to be!!!!!

The power of faith is something so amazing. Faith is also a choice. We have to chose to leave behind our human reasoning and choose to believe in God and His plan for us. We need to choose to leave the battle to God. We don't have to fight it.

I know it makes sense to leave the battle to God, but you would not believe how many Christians fight battles that we don't need to fight!! It is so sad. We live our lives in bondage just by simply not having enough faith to let God take care of us and fight our battles. We rob ourselves of the Spirit filled life He calls us. We are free prisoners basically. We are free because we received Him as Lord of our lives and yet prisoners because we don't have enough faith.

My challenge for you (and I) is to learn to develop the kind of faith that allows God to work in our lives. He wants to but when we hold back on His best there isn't much He can do for us. It is when we give God enough faith and "room" that He is able to work on our lives.

Are you ready to step out in faith TODAY? You don't have to do this on your own! God loves you so much. He will never leave you or forsake you. He wants to do something wonderful in your life. His plans for you are so beautiful.