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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Thank you so very much for your P31 devotion. The enemy is so tricky sometimes but Praise God He doesn’t leave us at his mercy! I feel a stirring deep down within my spirit. Praising God for awakening and hopeful for the first time in a long time for myself.
I tear myself down constantly. I can’t see myself how others see me. People will tell me all these positive things about me, but I can’t see it or won’t believe it. I always feel like they’re just saying those things to make me feel better. I’ve never truly felt beautiful or worthy of a man’s attention. I see everyone in my life moving on and happy and I can’t help but feel like I never will be.
Just last night I was dealing with this very issue! I wasn’t good enough, funny enough, cute enough, lovable enough, just not enough period! It turned what should have been a very fun evening into an evening of doubt & insecurity – stealing away a lot of the fun for me while others were having a blast 🙁 I am in your online Bible study so I know better but just could not stop comparing myself. On the drive home while having a mini pity party I began to remind myself of what God thinks of me. But then Satan remind me of all I had missed out on that evening because of my comparing. Thus the cycle began again. Your video reminded me that God IS in control & all I need to do is look to him.
DetermineI started a prayer journal just last week.something has happened to me, I’m a beautiful 29 year old single mom with so many things to be grateful for..but what happens to my self confidence? My insecurity keeps increasing and doubt keeps growing. I love God. What’s happening? Why do i feel like i lost a grip of myself, i want to feel confident and vibrant again. I want it back! Just last night i wad writing in my journal and asking God to please help me with my insecurities and lack if confidence in myself. You see… Being a single patent is hard but its harder where the father of my daughter always tells me what i screw up i am and what a bad mom i am..for reasons that are irrelevant and unnecessary.my new job..well I’m grateful i have one, its a great opportunity but its not what i truly desire to be..i just need it right now, my boss puts me down a lot when i make the littlest mistakes, I’m still learning but his personality is very volatile. I’m trying me best everyday,i all God to protect me from put downs and feeling inadequate.i hope that everything i go through can only help me to grow more and help other women, girls hear my testimony one day so i can be an encouragement and light to others with all that i have gone through. That’s why i write a lot. A quote from Mark Chironna i saw yesterday…”you are a walking set of interpretations because you are a meaning-maker.sometimes the meaning you make out of what you experience is not totally true.you then tell yourself half truths or mis truthsthat determine both your mood and your response.truth telling in self talk is a skill to be developed leading to transformation.it requires reframing the way you observe reality, interpret reality, and act on reality. ” This is a small key, step that God showed me that its going to start from my very thoughts andwithin me.
Thank you for your devotional! You are inspiring Renee.
I am a middle-aged woman who loves God, has an excellent career, is well educated with multiple degrees, is well liked and respected, and has a wonderful husband. I am also over weight, which is my main trigger of doubt and self-worth. If I let it, it will crush my confidence and self worth in a minute. Through the love of God and others, I am able to overcome those negative feelings.
wow! what a timely message for us women today. I recently saw an ad showing a woman standing on top of a huge pile of all that she had accomplished – we are expected to do it all! No wonder we doubt ourselves. I am a mother of four, pastor’s wife and work a full-time job. My work situation is not a very positive atmosphere and even though I work hard, it is never “good enough”. I have always struggled with self-doubt and this job has only magnified that. Thank you for this devotion!! I needed to be reminded to not get stuck in the mire of the AM thoughts…..
Thank you so much for that video. Whether it is writing or speaking, I often doubt my ability to communicate my ideas. I am a college student and lead campus ministries but the Enemy certainly feeds lies about my inadequacy. Similarly when I saw this space to share ideas I thought “God anything but that, I don’t have a worthy contribution”. I was reminded of how God gives us the words of our mouths, the desires of our heart, and equips us to do His good work. I now realize my “against me” thoughts in that way and am able to surrender them for “I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful” (Psalm 139:14).
THank you Rene. I read your book this spring & your personal testimony has been very encouraging to me. I appreciate how you shared your thoughts & feelings. That is real and precious treasure.
I really enjoyed your devotional today through Proverbs 31. I find that doubt in in my life is most strongly related to my faith. Not in the Lord but in my ability to be “the best Christian I can be.” It’s a very self taught doubt because I grew up in a home full of love for the Lord but not legalistic at all. I fear all the time that I’m not following God’s calling for me, that maybe I’m not listening to the right things, maybe I’m making up my calling and not listening at all. I also doubt because I fall into the comparison trap, especially with my husband. When we first started dating he judged my faith a lot based on things he was unsure of. Prior to marrying he stopped and apologized but now I’ve developed a pattern. He’s on the worship team and serving more, he knows scripture better than me, the list could go on forever. I hate falling into that trap because not only does it hinder me from serving the Lord but my husband as well.
What a blessing to come upon the Proverbs 31 one email/post that let me to your video. I have slipped into a season in my life where I seem to only be tuning into AM. In the last 2 years, we have sold a business we owned for 18 years, moved to a new town, and had my husband deployed shortly after the move. I have been shaken to the core. I also stuggle with depression. Just when I think I have take 3 steps forward, the AM station throws me back a few steps. THis was a great reminder of who is broadcasting AM and who is broad casting FM. I also really appreicate visual or story examples to this is perfect. This new metaphor is encouraging and will be one more arrow in my quiver to fight against Satan and his attempt to steal, kill and destroy. THanks for the encouragment!
I need this confidence boost right now so much. I am a new widow and my children are college age, so I find myself trying to figure out who I am now, after being a wife and mom for 25 years. Handling everything such as finances, and making all the decisions myself can be so overwhelming sometimes. I need to be reminded that God is with me through it all, and that I CAN handle everything that comes my way. I just need to tune into that FM station regularly.
I’ve been reading the 7-Day Doubt Diet this week, and what a convicting revelation of how I’ve let my doubts and fears and comparisons with others hold me back. I SO want to be delivered of these doubts, so I can live the life the Lord has planned for me. This week of devotionals and your messages of hope and freedom have turned my thinking around and I’m asking the Lord for victory over this stronghold I’ve allowed to hinder me.
Renee, I just finished your book, A Confident Heart, this morning. Wow! I feel that you wrote this book just for me! I too have struggled with so many of the issues that you have addressed. I praise God that you were obedient in writing your personal struggles down for women like myself to read and to know that we are okay because of Jesus’ blood and sacrifice. I look forward to ‘recovering’ from doubt and living in the shadow of the Cross. May the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ continue to bless your ministry! Thank YOU!
I just can’t teel you how doubt enters my mind all day. I am going to take heart to the am/ fm philosophy today and every day!!!
I have lived with “fear” for so long that I had lost any hope of peace. God has been healing me as I walk through the mess I’m in, but that are still days that I get overwhelmed with the fear and self-doubt and don’t remember who I am in Christ. I pray for a breakthrough, for His strength, for His peace but feel too weak to fight… the last couple days have been hard, I know that God is with me and will never leave or forsake me… but I WANT TO BE FREED FROM THIS HELL! I know His timing is perfect and there is a lesson He is trying to teach me, I just hope I get it soon. He loves me and suffers with me as I struggle with this but because He loves me He knows I need this to become the person He planned for me to be. Thank you Father that YOU will never leave me or forsake me, or lie to me or deceive me. Help me grasp these promises not just in my head but in my soul. Amen.
Your devotion today really spoke to me, causing me to explore your website and learn more about all of the resources you offer to help women become strong. Like many of the women who have commented here, I do spend too much time trying to please others, and draw too much of my self-worth from what others think of me. I also tend to have a terrible time forgetting past wrongs and hurts, leaving me insecure and ready to be hurt again, even by those close to me. I’m hopeful that spending time with your devotions and resources will help me grow in God beyond these weaknesses and become a confident woman again…thank you for your words. I read the P31 devotions every day and am always grateful for how they speak to me and help shape how I try to live each day.
As a mom, wife and teacher, I feel like I’m so hard on myself. I deal with the doubt and failure. God is with me and I should have no fears! This message was a good reminder.
I am constantly comparing myself to other women, and I know that I shouldn’t. I need to always remind myself that no woman is perfect, we all have our faults and strengths too. As a community we need to lift eachother up and stop comparing. We need to help each other and be willing to ask for help when we need it. God made us all in his image and we can do all things through Him. Thank you for the reminder that I need to stop doubting myself, and that God will help me with this.
I let fear and insecurity rule what I do. I tend to compare myself with others and it causes me to doubt myself. I need to replace my doubts with God’s thoughts about me. I know this and know this will work, but I just let the devil get a hold of me. I need to be intentional about relying on God and replacing his thoughts with my doubts and fears. He will give my the strength I need. Thank you for this. This is something I really need.
Our Lord has allowed me to read this today, in his perfect timing! I, too, struggle with confidence issues that are triggered by a mistake in my past. I pray that Jesus will release me from being paralyzed when new opportunities arise. I want to learn how to see myself through His eyes, not my own. Thank you Renee 🙂