Have you ever stopped to think about HOW you want to think about yourself?
Have you ever caught yourself thinking thoughts about yourself that just feel yucky, or make you feel sad or depressed?
I like to call that “stinkin’ thinkin’.”
Whether it’s concerning your physical appearance, your past actions/mistakes, your inabilities, your lack of relationships, resources, health, etc…
The reason it feels yucky is that we have stepped away from our true identity that is only found in Christ and revealed in His Word of truth.
Our current identity is a collection of thoughts we choose to think about ourselves because Proverbs 23:7 says “As a man thinks in his heart, so he is.”
CONDEMNATION comes from the enemy and its root is fear, for even when our Father corrects us CONVICTION will always have a flow of peace influencing us to accept it.
I want you to know that YOU get to decide what you think about YOURSELF and it’s a POWERFUL BLESSING from the Lord to have that ability!
You get the privilege of discovering in the Word of God, who HE says YOU ARE, and you get to believe that BY FAITH.
If you’ve been in the habit of thinking poorly of yourself, that’s ok, recognizing that and wanting to see it change is the first step.
When you begin to renew your mind with thoughts that line up with God’s truth about you, it may feel foreign at first or like you are lying.
Just keep practicing the truth every single day and slowly those lies will begin to fall by the wayside.
As you work to build faith (belief in God’s Word) for who HE says you ALREADY are, eventually when wrong thoughts present themselves (and believe me, they will) your new reaction will become one of easily rejecting those lies.
So, I encourage you to make a list of what you want to think about yourself in EVERY area of your life.
How do you want to think about yourself as a child of God?
As a daughter?
As a sister?
As a friend?
As a wife?
As a mother?
As a church member?
As a worker?
As a business owner?
As a kingdom builder?
As a neighbor to all those surrounding you?
Maybe you want to think that you are kind, generous, loving, valued, blessed, forgiving, wonderfully made, a blessing, or that you are LEARNING to be these things.
Our thoughts are SO POWERFUL because OUR experience of ALL of our relationships, (even our relationship with ourselves) are a reflection of OUR thoughts about each of those relationships.
If you need help sorting through your thoughts or you don’t even know what you’ve been thinking that is keeping you stuck, please reach out! I LOVE to come alongside women and hold a safe space for their current thoughts and the changes that they want to see in their future! I’m living proof that the desires you have in your heart ARE POSSIBLE and it all begins with your THOUGHTS! ~Be Blessed, Jenny xoxo
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~JENNY RIEFLIN MINISTRIES~ 