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Renee Swope

Encouraging and equipping moms to parent with God's grace and confidence.

How to Beat the Bully of Doubt

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.


{Download FREE Confident Heart “Triggers and Truths” Printable here}
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A Confident Heart“Confidence Boost” Giveaway:
Today I’m giving away a year’s subscription to the P31 Woman magazine and a copy of my book, “A Confident Heart”  (to keep or share with a friend) along with my message “Don’t Throw Away Your Confidence” on CD and a Starbucks gift card!  To enter, click “share your thoughts” below this post and  let’s talk about those things that trigger your doubts and what truth God spoke to your heart today through the video message and/or my P31 devotion.

And the WINNER is…. Erin Maxwell {announced July 26, 2012}

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Comments

  1. That speaks volumes today. I have recently joined a study and we are reading What Women Fear by Angie Smith (my very first study!!). Your video is exactly who I am. I live in fear and self doubt. There are so many things I want to do in this life and yet I worry that I won’t be good enough so I don’t even try. I would love to let thoes kinds of thoughts go away, and instead see a light of well all you can do is try and with pratcice, patience and persistence you can do it !

  2. I want to know more about what God’s thoughts are toward me because for so long I’ve had AM thoughts instead of the FM thoughts. Thanks for your offer and your brief encouragement. I will be book marking this and hope to hear your message at least once more today. God bless.

  3. Wow, Gods timing is perfect! I have been struggling with a dark cloud of doudt and lack of confidence in my life for a while now and it has robbed me of all joy. I know God is faithful and he loves me but when his voice is silent it is hard not to believe and I question where he is? Thank you for sharing this message today.

  4. My mind is constantly working against me. It’s kind of funny…yesterday, I was praying for help. I felt like a failure because I’ve let those feeling govern and dictate what I do with my life. I’ve had things come up and I’ve chickened out because of those feelings. Today’s Proverbs 31 devotion and your video really hit home. I’ve already printed up “Doubt’s Triggers & God’s Truths.” Today I’m sticking to, “There is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.” Rom8:1

  5. Satan is a liar! Lack of confidence is doubting the words of our Creator. But it has taken me years to learn this I still struggle with it. Being in a relationship with God, and not just a religion has surely set me free indeed.PTL

  6. My doubts in myself come from failures. ..even while I was the perfect Proverbs 31 woman in my marriage, my husband abandoned me while I was 6 months pregnant with his son, working full time as a special educator, going to school, doing my masters internship for my counseling degree, and coming home to take care of my 4 yr son and my husband…he was caught up in sin of child/teen porn and I gave an ultimatum. ..this (a godly marriage) or that…he chose that and it really did a number on my self-worth…how can someone choose sin over all that was good? His son is 4 now and he’s not seen his father and his father has not provided support at all..Only by the grace of God do I make it every day with two sons with no earthly fathers support…I still struggle everyday because we are so alone except for God..thank you for your encouraging words and your continued help would be accepted and appreciated so that in being made strong myself, I can help others

  7. What an eye opener for me. I never thought about how I compare myself to others and feel like I am not as good as they are. It is so true and real that it hit me like a ton of bricks. I always feel like others teach better than I do in Sunday School and other things I am involved in at church. It makes me feel so inadequate. I need to really get on my knees and pray about this. I am sure God puts me in these positions because He is using me and working through me. I need to trust Him more. There are other times in my life that i do not feel as good as others. I need to stop and realize how much God has blessed me with a wonderful life. He has been there for me through a lot of things in my life and I have trusted Him in these situations. I need to trust Him when it comes to just me. He made me different for a reason. Thanks for the devotion today.

  8. Your message today really hit a nerve with me. A very perfectionist person, both in my personal life and in my Christian walk, I find it incredible that God could ever use me. When He recently began dealing with me about ministry, all I had was a list of why I had to be misunderstanding His voice. Though having spent most of my life as a child or wife of a minister, I find myself divorced, rejected by some christian circles, and only too aware of all my little imperfections. How could He be calling me? I finally said “yes” to Him, after attending a service where He made His calling crystal clear to me, but I do still suffer with the exact thing you mentioned in your message today. Though I am doing what He has revealed to me to do at this point, I am continually having to try to push down feelings of my inadequacies and lack of qualifications. Thank you for sharing this message with us.

  9. I have always been insecure….rather is be my weight, intellegence, looks, etc I have never felt good enough. Since becoming a Christian I am starting to try and study out being secure in Heart with God. It’s still a struggle because I now have chronic medical conditions and sometimes feel how can God use me, how can I love myself and see myself as God does? Thank you for taking the time to address this important issue for everyone. I look toward to reading your book and drawing on God for my security instead of what the world tells me. P31 is an AMAZING ministry and I am thankful to know of it!

  10. Phew, this feels exactly like what I need right now!!! I’m so thrilled to have found these books and e-tools to help me regain my focus in Christ! I feel defeated spiritually so many days, and I know it’s the season I’m in right now. We moved across the country last year, so I’m slowly rebuilding godly friendships (I so miss my close accountability gals!!) Our firstborn went across the country to college, our finances aren’t what we expected with this move and both my husband and I come from families of non-believers. To the point my very own parents (after over a decade of living my life for Christ) challenge me still and are at times very difficult to deal with. At the same time, our second born lives with a vision impairment and we find out in one month if a license to drive will happen…every 16 year old’s dream. Add in daily struggles of being a wife, mom, teacher, etc and most days I’d rather bury my head in the sand, but I know God is for me not against me. That only He can provide the peace and joy daily that I need to cling too. I am thrilled to read these and let go of doubts in this season of struggle!!

  11. This definitely hit home today. Ive been struggling alot in this area and reading through the devotion helped me realize my doubt comes from fear of man and not focusing on God’s truth. Thank you for writing.

  12. Love the point of the AM and FM thoughts.I must align my thoughts with God’s word for me.

    Thank you for sharing this today.
    I needed it,
    Tasha

  13. I woke up this morning and saw your post and video….I started crying because EVERYTHING you said is ME! I am a mom of 5 beautiful children, and great husband, and I am blessed to have a job as an RN and my own small business. I KNOW how blessed I am, but still, everyday, and weighed down with self doubt and AM thoughts….I’m not a good enough mom, role model, wife, friend, daughter, housekeeper, money manager, christain…it goes on and on. These feelings weigh me down and keep me from accomplishing any goals I set for myself. I want to rid myself of these thoughts, but don’t know WHERE to start or HOW to start…I am looking forward to reading your book, and am hoping that I can get on that road to spiritual and emotional recovery….

  14. I deal with a lot of anxiety on a daily basis. I need to keep your words close at hand to help me realize I’m not in this alone! Thank you for all you do!

  15. I grew up in a very disfunctional family. Only thru much counseling as an older adult was I able to gain enough confidence to really realize that Jesus truly loved ME just the way I am and that I couldn’t be any more perfect in his sight than I already was! Those insecurities are some that Satan still uses to attack me and render me useless at times. Praise the Holy God for instilling ablities such as you have in people willing to share them with people like me!!

  16. I struggle with this issue. This year my life has been turned upside down(not bad things – just life things). In last three months went from 3 kids living at home to none. One of them moved across the country with her new husband(military). The youngest moving away to college. Another one just decided it was time to live on his own. Everything changed and I am feeling very vulnerable. I am fighting Satans negative thoughts daily.

  17. I just love it when God answers my prayers FAST! I was telling Him how terrified I am to go to work today – I’ve been at this job over 2 yrs and still feel completely inadequate for the task. Then I came inside and read your email on Encouragement for Today – and that brought me to this page. I have printed the Triggers and Truths! Thank you for the blessing that you are to so many of us who need the reminder that we can do all things through Christ! Thank you and God bless –

  18. This was so nice to wake up and read this morning! As a mom so often I doubt myself esp after a rough day!!

  19. I use the visual from frank perietti (sp?) author of, “this prensent darkness” where there are these demons who have jumped on your back and are whispering your weaknesses and fears constantly in your ears. this spiritual warfare is constant and Satan won’t stop but neither has Jesus. I have days I let Jesus win the battle and other days feel defeated by the enemy. Hoping the book will bring clairity to my battle.

  20. Doubt and fear are my main struggles in my life. They cripple my relationship with the Lord and others. I know that fear is the opposite of faith, yet Satan still has a foothold there and uses it against me. It destroys the faith that I do have. I trust God is bigger in my head, but I want to know it in my heart. Praying this book can assist me in that battle. Thank you for writing this! Blessings to you all at P31 ministries 🙂