Satan is a bully who tries to make us feel small, inadequate, less than and insecure. But we don’t have to believe him anymore.
Often times He’ll use something to trigger our self-doubts and then he’ll pounce on us with lies. Today can be the day you decide YOU ARE are more than a conqueror through HIM who loves you!
I’ve got a short video message based on my book that will equip and empower you to stop letting doubt and discouragement beat you up and start letting God’s Word build you up instead! Watch this for a practical way to beat the bully of doubs with the power of God’s promises.
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I struggle with being happy with the way i look and how smart i am as a person. i know in my heart God made me i am beautiful and i am smart enough for what ever God has me here for. but where i came from most look down on others knowing the truth now to make their self feel better. but as a child those things stick. and then satin’s lies. it defiantly a battle!!! i enjoy your devotional and it encourages me deeply! Thank you very much!!
Thank you so much for your encouraging words!! Satan has had me under attack with fear and doubt for the past week and I’ve been asking God to show me truth. Well like always he delivers! Only I can allow others to affect me but I must believe Gods truth for my life that he has set before me!! My past is no more and can have no strong hold on me unless I allow it!! Thank you for your wonderful ministry to others and obedience to God!!
Katie
Please pick me….this video really spoke to me…..we all need to lean in and believe He can clean out these oh so frequent negative thoughts and replace it with His Way. I am so glad I have found this website. I’d love the P31 magazine!
I thank you for sharing the message about doubting yourself and how so easily someone can forget about who Satan is and how he uses doubts, the one of his many tactics used to try to steal all the gifts and blessings we have in Christ. I am struggling so much with doubts about myself not only as a wife, mother, but even a person who is here on earth. I know that I am here to serve God and tell others about Christ be a living example of Christ inside of me and the testimony that my life has to share to others, but since I moved out of state to Az. I haven’t found a church I could call home nor have had any luck making friends. So I really want to thank God for allowing me to come across crosswalks website.
Wow. Today’s devotion really resonated with me. I hadn’t even considered how a single comment could bring down my whole week. Yet, when I look back at times that I’ve felt unneeded, not useful, or all around weary, it’s usually after a time of weakness or a single event of negativity. I’m excited to read this book.
I have gotten so much from going through this study, especially using the FM thoughts to counter the AM thoughts.
I always feel insecure about what I am supposed to do or what I am able to do. I am constantly criticizing myself for the mistake. I tell myself I am stupid. I look in the mirror and constantly find fault in the way I look. I feel like the ugliest creature in Gods creation. I work with many men. I hear them talk about women and discuss whether they are attractive. I constantly think. If they don’t think she is all that attractive then they must think I am a hideous dog. I see these women I think they are definitely beautiful. Then these guys say “oh she is a 5” I can’t help but think, “if she is a five i must be a negative 8”. They are not talking about me at all but i feel like they are criticizing me. if we are discussing an issue and we disagree I automatically think they disagree because they think I am an ignorant woman. Its hard to live this way but it is a constant thought in my head. When i am driving somewhere new and get lost. I think and say i am the only idiot who cannot follow simple driving directions. I feel like God could never use me or love me at all. It seems like God created all things to his liking and as an afterthought he created women. You read or hear men talk about how they are better at this or that than women. I feel if God created me to not be as good as men at those things then i am useless to him and all others. it is never enough. I am never enough. I don’t matter to anyone. I cannot do anything. Why bother. I don’t even feel as if God wants to use me and he never answers my prayers or leads me to anything. i feel as if I am just drifting through life.
I doubt myself all the time. I lead worship at our church once a month and no matter how many thank you’s or good jobs I still struggle with the feeling that I am not good enough to be up there leading. It isn’t a thought of I want people to think I play my guitar or sing well, it’s that I don’t want to be a distraction and cause people to miss out on true worship or God touching their hear. I know God wants me there. He put a guitar in mu hands a few years ago and doors started flying open.
All the insecurities seem to come from negative or silly comments in the past. Even after I’ve had good comments to replace the bad, the bad seem to be what’s remembered. I hope I’m making sense. I had my tonsils out yesterday and the meds are causing me to have a hard time forming complete thoughts.
One of my triggers is when people ask me questions during conversations. I immediately think I’ve said something stupid or wrong. And most of the time the questions are just for the sake of conversation or they really are interested to hear more. It happens so fast I don’t even realize it. Ugh…
Lovrd the thought that she was able and willing to search deeper into the reason for her insecurities. I pray that I will be motivated by God to search the real reason for my hesitancies and sometimes refusals to do what God has called me to do.
Wow. 246 comments ahead of mine. So many sharing much the same. I find it interesting how paralyzed I became with fear this past weekend. What I experienced was lack of confidence and feelings of inadequacy and doubting my abilities (so self-doubt). I haven’t been able to identify why. I need to spend more quiet time and be in the Word to let the Lord show me why. I have a deep passion to carry on a ministry and a work that has not yet begun, and I believe the fear is attack of the enemy. What has helped is scripture, taking God’s promises to heart, and confessing who I am in Christ and who He believes I am. I have yet to read your book. It sounds like it would be most helpful. Thank you for sharing your heart and what the Lord is teaching you.
Renee, thank you for today’s message, you found me right where I am today. Definitely you were lead by God, I needed that message so badly. Since we moved to England four years ago, my health has worsened and I am mostly house bound, I have major depression problems too, that I am fighting with my faith, it was good to hear today that I’m not alone in these thoughts. Thank you for the opportunity to win your book and CD, I really need help and direction. God bless you in your ministry. Kind Regards Mandy Currie ([email protected])
I have lived in the land of “self-doubt” forever and I want to move away permanently. I am going to study this deeper and prepare for the move. I do not plan on needing a moving van. I am only taking myself and plan to “decorate” my new home with the interior design line with products such as “Positive Paint, Fabulous Flooring, Super Seating and Confident Curtains”. Corny maybe, but I am a visual person, so I need to see myself in a new setting. Everyone is invited over for tea!
I don’t remember ever NOT having self-doubt and insecurity over almost everything. My childhood was filled with so much abuse and rejection that I thought for a long time that I was just damaged. I learned at a young age to put on the happy face and often overachieve, always looking for the approval of others and never wanting to upset anyone. I did that for so many years trying to “earn” the attention and affection of my earthly father. I just wanted so much to feel that I was worth fighting for. My stepmother never accepted me and resented me being around. And my mom has battled depression and addictions my entire life compounding the instability of multiple marriages and homes. What made matters much worse was the fact that all of these adults in my life making such horrible choices that profoundly changed my outlook on life were Christians. So although I believed in God, I think I always felt He was more AM that FM. As an impressionable child, it really made it difficult to grow in faith and trust of Him and to not doubt HIs love as well.
I have a great husband and 2 great kids, but I never feel secure in any of my roles (wife, mother, daughter, friend, etc) and always struggle with fear, doubt, and it’s ugly sister worry. I have times where it gets a little better and I’ve noticed that it directly correlates to how much time I’m meditating on His word and working to replace my AM thoughts with FM ones. Satan definitely knows these weaknesses too. I have been fortunate to also come across some excellent Bible studies, like Beth Moore’s Breaking Free. I’m currently reading Lysa’s book, Becoming More Than a Good Bible Study Girl. I have printed the AM/FM thoughts page (twice actually-think I lost it the first time!) and the Triggers & Truths. I know I need daily, sometimes hourly, reminders of Truth and FM thoughts and I think what you said in the video is so true…I need to be armed in advance!
I would love to read your book and if you make it into a Bible study, sign me up!!! In the meantime, please keep me in your prayers as I continue to allow God to help me identify my triggers and fill my mind and heart with HIs Truth!
Your devotional today was so though provoking. It really made me think about how much I doubt myself. I have let it overwhelm me now that I am a wife and mother. I am excited to read your book.
I am so thankful for your book and this study! I have always struggled with self-doubt and it’s so good to have these tips to help get through the worst moments. I never thought about looking for triggers before and then trying to do ‘battle’ to counter-act the trigger. I’m looking forward to learning my triggers, how to do battle with them, and winning this war against self-doubt!!! I am so thankful the Lord loves me too much to leave me as I am and that He never gives up on working on me to make me more Christ-like <3
How fitting that I read this the morning after I blew it with some friends because of my doubts about being good enough for them. I have been working for almost a year to repair a hurt friendship, and reacted to a couple of situations this week in a manner that showed how much I HAVEN’T grown… All because I don’t feel like this 30-something single will ever fit in with the married mommies that surround me. In it all, God is teaching me what it means to be accepted by Him, and what that looks like played out in real life.
I really enjoyed todays post & video. I’m saving the “Triggers & Truths” verses to read daily. Another one of my favorites when being assaulted by doubt is Jeremiah 29:11. Thank you for sharing and letting God speak through you. 🙂
I have been really struggling with discouragement, doubt and lack of self confidence lately, it just seems like satan has a foothold, he has found a weak spot and keeps attacking.
I have a job that I truly enjoy, I believe God put me in this position, otherwise I do not believe I would have been hired. The timing and everything were perfect. It was a blessing. Lately though things have kind of gone down hill, it seem like coworkers are focusing on the negative, I am very hard on myself too, I tend to make mountains out of mole hills.
I read the first chapter of “A Confident Heart” and it was almost like she had crawled into my head and wrote it about me. This morning on the way to work satan started ‘reminding” of what my mom told me years ago when I was a teen, she told me “you will never be able to hold down a job”. I told satan, “just leave me alone, I am God’s precious gem, no value can be put on me, I belong to him, so just leave me alone”. I am working on focusing on what God says, not what my mom told me. That was the only time she said that, only that one time, there were a couple other things at other times that were said that he also tries to use. I guess that is part of what James was saying when he spoke about the tongue, it is such a small part but can do such harm. I know that as Goad and I work thru this I will gain strength, and insight to what God is really like and just how much he does love me, which that he loves me in spite of myself, is really pretty amazing. I am looking forward to see my self confidence grow, the doubts leave, and the discouragement dissolve in to being able to encourage others. Just writing this little note I can already feel some of this happening. Maybe those AM thoughts really can be turned into FM thoughts.
Insecurity and fear have been a struggle in my life for years. Probably because i was told as a youngster, over and over, that I was stupid. No matter what I did wrong, small or large, that’s what I was told. I say that to myself sometimes when I drop something or lose something, etc. I know God loves me and I am working on internalizing and taking that truth to heart and sometimes that is easier than others. Thank you for all you do to help us walk with the King!