Truth

Good morning! So I am going to do something new and just encourage the heck out of y'all. Lately, I have been more than attacked with feelings of unworthiness and being unloved. But guess what? The devil is a big fat liar. Because anything that God doesn't say about you isn't the truth but is in fact a lie so here are some lies that we get fed along the way and scripture we can use to fight the enemy.

LIE # 1  - YOU ARE NOT LOVED. NO ONE WILL EVER LOVE YOU.

Jeremiah 31:3 "I have loved you with an everlasting love. I have drawn you with everlasting kindness."

LIE # 2- YOUR LIFE IS A HUGE MESS AND YOU WILL NEVER AMOUNT TO ANYTHING.

Jeremiah 29:11 "For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for good and not evil, to give you a future and a hope."

LIE # 3-  KEEP HIDING, IF THEY SAW WHAT YOU REALLY ARE, THEY COULDN'T POSSIBLE LOVE YOU.

Psalm 139 "You have searched me, Lord, and you know me. You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar. You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways. Before a word is on my tongue, you know it completely. You hem me in behind and before, and you lay your hand upon me. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain.

LIE # 4- YOU SHOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN BORN, YOU ARE A FAILURE AND WOULD BE BETTER OFF NEVER ALIVE.

Psalm 139 "For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be."

LIE # 5- NO ONE CHOOSES YOU. NO ONE WILL EVER WANT YOU.

John 15:16 "You did not choose me, but I chose you. 

LIE # 6- YOU AREN'T EVEN WORTH PURSUING.

Hosea 2:14 "Therefore I am not going to allure her; I will lead her into the desert and speak tenderly to her." 

We serve an amazing, kind, compassionate God. He is never failing and pursues you daily. Take some time today to give thanks for all he is has done in your life. Tell the enemy to back off and that you are not his child and do not serve him. He must flee. Have a wonderful weekend!!

Dear God,

Thank you for being truth. Thank you for loving me far beyond what I deserve . Thank you for all of the amazing blessings in my life. Help me to see the truth and to recognize lies. Amen.

Tough Cookie

"...For this people's heart has become calloused; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts and turn, and I would heal them." (Matthew 13:14-15)

Calloused- having calluses; having skin made tough and thick through wear, toughened, emotionally hardened, unfeeling

How many of us can say that we have tough skin? A tough cookie? Life has dealt us an unfair hand of cards and we have stood up to it and nothing can get through to us anymore. People have hurt us too much in this life so instead of moving forward, we have become paralyzed and accepted the fact that we would rather live life alone than getting hurt again. I am sure that a lot of us are guilty of saying, "Never again."

But have we also unknowingly said "never again" to God? I know that for a long time I blamed God for all the bad things that happened in my life. My heart was so hard that there was no way I could ever understand the deep love He has for me. I wanted no one to come near and get close to me and definitely not a God who had created me only to put me through misery, or so I thought. Man, I was wrong. I had laid my heart on the line time and time again for people only to get rejected so then how could the God of the entire universe accept me and love me for who I am?

Jesus was vulnerable. Vulnerability is part of becoming Christlike. He has put everything on the line for us. Will you accept Him? He laid it all down on the cross and he just wants us to accept his love. To love him. Could it be that our deepest fear of not being loved could become our biggest triumph if we could just lay it down at the cross? After all, Jesus came to save us but also heal our broken hearts. The callouses we have on our heart are there to keep us from not getting hurt again. But there is a better way.

Let Jesus heal your heart. Ask him to give you a new heart. A heart transformed by the power of a loving Savior. "And I shall give them one heart, and shall put a new spirit within them. And I shall take the heart of stone out of their flesh and give them a heart of flesh, that they may walk in My statutes and keep My ordinances, and do them. Then they will be My people, and I shall be their God."  (Ezekiel :19-20) Softening your heart often involves breaking the resistant parts... so if there is pain, continue to hang tight to Jesus. You are asking for your heart to feel again. He will carry you through the pain. Blessings!!

Jesus,
Thank you for dying for my sins but also coming to heal my wounds. I want to let you heal my heart, I don't want to be cold anymore. Renew in me a new spirit hungry for you. Amen.