I am worthless. I am unlovable. I am broken. I am stupid. I am ugly. People feel sorry for me and that's the only reason I have any friends. I am not good enough. I am undeserving of love and affection. I am constantly a burden and nobody wants to be around me. I have not accomplished anything good in my life.
These are things that the devil and the world tells me that I am. I hear them everyday.
John 10:10 says that "The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full".
My Jesus has something different to say about me..
I am made in his image. Genesis 1:27
Jesus says that I am cherished. I am beautiful. I am strong. I am able. I am valued. I have potential. I am outrageously loved. I am wanted. I am complete. I am smart. I am worthy. And there is a perfect plan for my life that Jesus himself wrote for me.
I have been freed from the bondage these lies have had over my life before, but that bondage slowly creeps back every once in awhile. The chains that have been broken in my life sometimes start to bind me again and I do not notice it until they are so tightly secured to me that I become numb. I allow it to happen. I throw Satan the key to my chains and by not standing up for myself I give him permission to hold me back. When we become Christians, God gives us the right to use his name against Satan. How cool is that? When we are being spiritually attacked, all we have to do is speak out the name of Jesus and the devil flees. "Even the demons believe this, and they tremble in terror" it says in James. The battle over my life has already been won. I have given my life to Jesus. I have to remind myself daily that by the grace of God, I get to walk in that freedom.
I am often spiritually attacked when I am about to be used for the kingdom of God. The devil knows exactly what lies to spit at me to cause me to doubt myself, to make me cower. Satan wants nothing more than to destroy me and hold me back from accomplishing the things the Lord has set before me. I have to stop allowing it.
Thank you Jesus for coming to earth, so that I might have life.
I am a child of God. My chains are gone, I've been set free.
