The devil sure knows how to speak our language, doesn’t he? For my whole life he has made me believe that I am never good enough. I don’t have the right body. I don’t have the right hair. I don’t have the best clothes. Their gear is better than mine. Their prayers are better than mine. Their relationship with the Lord is better than mine.
Someone asked me this week, “The things that you’re going out and sharing with people, do you REALLY believe what you’re preaching? I can sit here all day and tell you how powerful my God is and how he is going to protect you and always be with you, you just have to trust him, but do I believe that He will do those things for ME? “
Wow. I’ve gone all around Jamaica telling people how having a relationship with the Lord is so great, and trusting in him is so rewarding, and he is such a good good father and he just wants us to lean on him and worship him because he is the ultimate provider whenever we don’t even deserve it. All these things are very true. All the while, do I TRULY believe those things in my heart to be true for myself?
So father God I pray that you just reveal to me all the lies I have been believing for so long. I pray that they are just thrown out on the floor for me to see. I pray that I can recognize each individual lie that I have held onto for so long. And after I’ve seen them all on the floor and recognized each of them so I know what those lies are, Father God I pray that I can stomp all those lies down until they are dust, because they are not welcome here. And Lord, after all those lies have been taken out of me, there’s a hole. So I pray Lord that you just fill that hole where all the darkness used to be, with TRUTH. Father God I pray that you replace the dark hole with light. That you replace the emptiness and brokeness with life and joy and love.
John 14:20 says that I am in you and you are in me. So Jesus I’m not going to ask you to fill the hole with you, because you’re already there. I’m just going to ask that all the truths are painted on canvas’s for me to see. I pray that I can recognize each individual truth that I have never taken hold of. And after I’ve seen them all beautifully painted and recognized each of them so I know what those truths are, Father God I pray that I can imprint those canvas’s on the canvas of my heart because the truth’s you have for me is who I truly am.
God I BELIEVE that you are the almighty powerful loving God. I just want to believe the truth that you have for ME.
