Have you ever had problems with self your confidence or self image, because of the challenges and situations you have found yourself in? I have. John Maxwell says, "Courage is the result of confidence. It is not the difficulties that defeat us. It’s the lack of confidence that defeats us."
If you have been reading my blog for any length of time, you know my testimony. You know there was a time when I didn't walk in confidence. I thought I was confident. I thought I had it all together, but one day I realized that I wasn't as confident as I thought I was. You see, I was achieving worldly goals like gaining an education, I had a good job, I was serving in my church, I had decent relationships (nothing to brag about), and I was the best mother I knew to be. Life was ok. Yet this was the thing: late in the midnight hour, I would be depressed. I would wallow in my grief about the pain I had suffered during different parts of my life like when I lost my twins 5 months in utero or when I missed out on opportunities and thought I should be further along in life. Sidenote: There was much more pain than the loss of my twin boys, but that's for another time. At any rate, I had lost confidence in myself (if I had ever really had it) and I found myself in a bad place mainly at night after I laid my head on that pillow. Mainly at night when we slowed down long enough to be alone in our thoughts. That's when the devil or God can talk to us. I had let the enemy have his way long enough and I wasn't having it anymore. So it's important that people know that what they did or didn't do or what happened to them or didn't happen, does not affect the plan God still has for them. Jeremiah 29:11 is a scripture that still applies to that plan. You're going to help many, because of the life you've lived. Your testimony will give you more confidence and courage. Believe that.
If you have been reading my blog for any length of time, you know my testimony. You know there was a time when I didn't walk in confidence. I thought I was confident. I thought I had it all together, but one day I realized that I wasn't as confident as I thought I was. You see, I was achieving worldly goals like gaining an education, I had a good job, I was serving in my church, I had decent relationships (nothing to brag about), and I was the best mother I knew to be. Life was ok. Yet this was the thing: late in the midnight hour, I would be depressed. I would wallow in my grief about the pain I had suffered during different parts of my life like when I lost my twins 5 months in utero or when I missed out on opportunities and thought I should be further along in life. Sidenote: There was much more pain than the loss of my twin boys, but that's for another time. At any rate, I had lost confidence in myself (if I had ever really had it) and I found myself in a bad place mainly at night after I laid my head on that pillow. Mainly at night when we slowed down long enough to be alone in our thoughts. That's when the devil or God can talk to us. I had let the enemy have his way long enough and I wasn't having it anymore. So it's important that people know that what they did or didn't do or what happened to them or didn't happen, does not affect the plan God still has for them. Jeremiah 29:11 is a scripture that still applies to that plan. You're going to help many, because of the life you've lived. Your testimony will give you more confidence and courage. Believe that.
Keep your faith up and don't lessen it for anybody, any thing, or any place. It's never worth it. It starts with confidence and courage, not fear. Fear doesn’t come from God (2 Timothy 1:7 says he hasn’t given us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control).
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