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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Wow…I just found this website yesterday and I thank God for the
message. I am at one of the lowest points if my life and really need Gods
guidance daily. Discouraged and dismayed over how my past has so negatively affected my present and future. I have been asking God to help help me fix my eyes on Him. Asking God to help me trust and believe that He still has a purpose for my life though I have seemingly messed up at every point. God, I think, wants me to believe He will make a way even when it seems impossible. This message I think is a confirmation God is with me even now. Thank you so much.
I had a rough marriage in the beginning. He had affairs. That truely zaps all confidence. When we finally got everything straight in our marriage he wanted to help me get past all of it. I knew that what he had taken from me he could not give back. Trust had to be earned but, I needed my confidence back my belief in me. The knowledge that I am worth more. I knew that only God could give me that back. It took 3 years before I felt like I was whole and worthy again. My focus had to be on God and everything else fell into place. He has honored my marriage and my husband and I just celebrated 24 yrs of marriage which we did not think we would make. With God all is possible. Satan is always trying to get at my confidence as he knows it is a weak point but I will forever always look and pray to God for he is my strength.
This is exactly what i needed to hear today. thank you for your powerful words of wisdom.
Its going to take time, but I pray eventually I can become the person God intended for me to be.
Proverbs 31 website helps me to be that person! God Bless!
I recently lost my job and my Mom passed away 2 weeks later. I decided that rather than look for work, I will spend one year to try to become a writer, which is my longtime dream. But I feel paralyzed! Voices in my head say, “Why do you think YOU’RE a writer?” and “What do YOU have to say to others?”, especially about my topic of Women Making Strides and being a leader in your own life. I get distracted with social media and daily tasks and pretty soon, the day is gone and I’ve achieved nothing. It’s those negative voices holding me back. I will post and read your “Truths you can lead toward” when I feel doubtful. Thank you.
I thank God for his word this morning. I read the daily devotional every morning before starting off my day. But today I felt the Lord speak to me directly. I thank God for women like you. Your daily devotions have helped me so much. Thank you ladies! May the Lord Bless you!! 🙂
I am just amazed at how God has been putting information for me from some very unexpected places. I am getting ready to make a very big life changing choice and I am scared and totally feeling that I am not worthy and inadequate. Thank you for the timliness of your message.
My insecurities lie in not being enough for the Lord, for my children, for my mom, for my friends, for myself. This week a challenge/falling out with friends in my life has caused insecurity to dig in deeper and I’m struggling to not let it take root and be drug down by the negativity of others. I have spent a lot of time in conversation with God. I have not given up on myself, on prayer, on life and I will not. I know the Lord is growing me through this challenge.
I have been self doubting a lot… I thought I knew who I was and what I was supposed to do for God but everything changed and now I am struggling to find sucurity and trust in God. The uncertainty of the future and worries consume me. I need to seek God more…
Dear Renee,
Reading through the above comments, I see that I am not alone. So often I think we, as women, feel all alone. I stayed at home and raised my children in a culture that seems to shout to women,” Work, Work, Work ! and you will feel worthwhile !” Well, any of you who have chosen the very Godly and demanding job of being a stay-at-home mother, can surely attest that it is indeed WORK !!! In my community, there were very few of us and I felt very much alone. Then, to add insult to injury, my husband and I chose to homeschool. I think the alone-ness I felt possibly tripled then as there were even less of us than stay-at-home moms. I wondered often, if my children were indeed getting a good education, were there any holes in our curriculum, will I be capable of teaching high school subjects, etc., etc. And, when you feel alone, you feel sad, possibly a bit depressed, and your confidence definitely waivers. Also, just trying to be a Godly mother can shake one’s confidence no matter if you spend your days with your kids or out in the work force. So, I wondered if God really was looking out for me. And, as a one income family, we struggled. And, even though we tithed, and gave to the hungry, participated in fundraising efforts for the least of these…we still struggled causing me to question if God really is taking care of me ?? However, through the years I have felt extremely blessed to have this amazing opportunity to teach my children Godly principles, share this beautiful world with them, mix and mingle with all types of people, and have real hands on learning. I would definitely do it all over again even though in those first few years family and friends felt it necessary to comment and question, ” Why ?”
And, in my personal faith journey, I find myself not very confident that I am behaving Godly enough…I lose my patience, I raise my voice, I internally judge others, I sometimes struggle to forgive, and the list goes on and on. Yet, I call myself a Christian woman. And, even though I attend worship services, volunteer on church committees, give to others, give extra when our church is in need, I don’t always see what God is doing in my life. I know that some of this lack of confidence stems from missing days reading God’s word which only fuels the whole confidence issue causing me to feel less than passionate when I pray, less thankful, less able to battle the foe with Biblical wisdom. So, I would love to win a copy of “A Confident Heart” to glean Godly wisdom and perhaps pass on to another sister in need. Thank you, Renee for your inspiring ministry and this opportunity !!! May God bless you and your family !
I struggle with worthiness and self doubt. I know I should not. I know that I am completely loved by God and that He forgives my sins. It just seems that I allow the devil to bring up old sins to create guilt and then when I fall and sin again, the devil says “see you are so unworthy”. Thank you for your encouraging words and I know that God will continue to help me beat this self doubt.
This is such perfect timing! It’s a word in due season. This is my first time to renee’s site and I am praising God for this insight. I have allowed the self doubt to become a stronghold of fearful torment and evil forebodings of worst case scenarios. Thank you for helping to unveil my eyes that Satan is a bully and he is shooting these flaming darts of doubt, condemnation, fear, and evil forebodings. Instead of fighting back II’ve been allowing these vivid negative “movie.type scenarios ” to flood my thioughts. Now I need to learn WHAT to do. Help.
As soon as you spoke of Twila Paris, I KNEW the song you were going to refer to. That is my “go to” song when discouraged. Thank you for the reminder…this Summer has not been an easy one :).
WOW!
Were you standing beside me all day on Tuesday this week? God knew I really needed this message of hope. I was having one of those no-good-very-bad days and thankfully, was uplifted by the grace of my Godly girlfriends who reminded me of my amazing self-worth and that I AM one of God’s precious creations. I am guilty of comparision and letting it affect my spirit. Hopefully, with the help of your messages, I can refocus and remember why God blessed me with great talents so I can further His kingdom!
Thanks for sharing your heart with all of us!
Thank you for talking about all the things we have running through our heads that may not be our thoughts. We need to take captive every thought!!!!
I love the triggers and truths printable! This is a great help to me!
I contemplated not sharing my thoughts because I told myself I wouldn’t win anyway. And then it hit me – this is exactly what I need to stop doing. So I asked God for a FM moment and here I am sharing my thoughts! God is good! Things have never been “easy” for me and I can remember as I was growing up always wanting what others had. As I helped my own children grow through this same process, I learned that I am fortunate in many ways. I do still struggle with my life’s hard knocks and I have learned to rely on God and to be patient for He provides all things in His time. If it is His plan for me to win, I think I will benefit from the book teaching me new ways to remember that He is good and always in control.
Thank you for a great ministry!
As a mom of two teenagers – 1 freshman in high school and 1 freshman going to college, I struggle with fear, doubt and insecurity especially now that they are making decisions on their own and I am not in control. So then I feel like I am not needed or loved by them because from teenagers perspective “we don’t know anything”. And then when they do continue to make mistakes then I feel like I didn’t do a very good job teaching them as a mom. Parenting is so hard. But thanks for your encouraging words through your video. I would really like to look more into the book and see if this is something my accountability group would like to study or I am even praying/considereing starting a Bible study group with other teachers and assistants at the school I work at.
This message was perfect for my day today, thank you! I recently started a new position in a college ministry setting. It is my first real job out of college and not something I ever thought I would be qualified for. The woman who had the job before me was perfect for the position and I’m constantly comparing myself to her and seeing my weaknesses. It’s been a real struggle to remind myself that this job is part of God’s plan for me and I just need to let him work through me. This morning was especially difficult as I was feeling uncertain and insecure about other things, and your devotion was (and always is) a wonderful blessing and extremely relevant. Thank you and praise the Lord!
Thank you Renee-
Between your devotional today and Lyssa yesterday, I know I’m being called to deal with the issue of two bullies in our small church. The sad thing is everyone in the church knows how these two men are but does nothing to stop them. The people who become completely fed up leave. Or refuse to volunteer for anything. These men are on our consistory now and are making people’s lives misirible.
The last person they turned their attention to was me and I’ve spent the last week praying for these men and our church. Praying I overcome my natural fear of confrontation and that God will bring me the confidence I’ll need to address this issue with the church (who I feel should be confronted first) and then thes two men. I pray everyone sees I’m not acting out of hurt feelings but love for the congregation
I often am filled with self-doubt and worth. I try hard to be a good christian, wife, mother, and friend. As a friend, I am a good listener, but I doubt that what I say concerning God will be come out correctly and be accepted. As a mom, I am striving to be a better listener, but feel alone and that I’m saying all the wrong things. As a wife, I struggle daily with the need to please him by being the “good little wife” and the “let’s get real… I am a person and I want a life, TOO!”. As a christian, my thoughts & words are not living up to want them to be (for Christ). I do not spend enough time in the word or in prayer.
Your words are sounding on me! I am blessed and thankful for so many things, but I definitely struggle with many AM messages! I need help with the FM messages!!!
Thank for your message today! I will contine for God’s strength!