Has anyone ever told you that you are worthless or ugly or just not that important? Have you ever been told that you weren’t good enough? Have you ever told yourself anything like this? Maybe you were rejected a long time ago, and you still struggle with feeling accepted. Maybe you still believe you’ll never be good enough or measure up to what your parents ask of you. All of us, no matter how confident or competent we are, struggle with lies. Maybe you’re like me and you’re good at forgetting about them until you’re alone and are given time to think about all your insufficiencies. These negative words that we speak over ourselves tear us apart. Why not instead of believing these lies, we start speaking some truth?
At team time last night we got really vulnerable and talked about different lies that have been spoken over us and some that we are even still dealing with. A lot of ours were similar in the sense that we struggled with worth or finding our image in worldly things instead of having an identity fully established in God.
One of the lies that I have believed for a long time has been that everyone is too busy for me and I’m not worthy of others’ time. I didn’t realize how much this lie affected my entire life until the world race. I would do things based on this lie like not ask others to spend time with me, because I believed that they were too busy or had more important things to do.
I remember even struggling with this lie when I was a child. I was about to have a birthday party, and I wanted to have my pumpkin carved before my friends came over (my birthday is in October). My mom told me no, but as soon as she left the house, I started carving it anyways. I didn’t even cut the top off before the knife slipped and I cut deep into my thumb. It looked bad, but instead of crying, I just went looking for my mom. She was in the front yard talking to our next door neighbor. I waited until their conversation was over before I spoke up. It ended up that we needed to go to the emergency room to get stitches, but I didn’t want to barge in. I believed their conversation was more important than what I had to say.
So, at team time last night, I was able to bring to light all the lies that I still believe. There were some that I have held onto for a long time and never brought to the light. I can’t explain to you the relief I felt after I spoke them out.
In John 8:44, Jesus tells us that Satan is the father of lies. From the very beginning, he deceived creation. It is his purpose and his goal to get you to believe the lies that have been spoken over you and me.
If you have had lies spoken over you and you have never brought them into the light, I want to encourage you to do it today. It will be a burden lifted off your shoulders. No, I’m not completely free of them, but I’m aware of them. I know that I still believe them, and that’s why I do the strange things I do. I’m working on exchanging my lies for truths, and that’s so much better than being trapped in them. It took me less than 15 minutes to ask the Lord to reveal to me what I struggle with, write them down on paper, and start gaining my freedom.
Here are some truths I want to speak over you:
You are beautiful
You are accepted
You are free from condemnation
You are worthy
You are important
You are loved
Do you believe all of those? Because you definitely should.
