I am so excited to start doing GUEST BLOGGERS!! Each week or bi-weekly, I will be featuring a blog from one of my teammates, another racer on the field, someone I meet on the field or a friend/family member! Whoever it may be, I know the Lord will be in the midst of the guest’s posts and I pray they impact you in some way!
This post is from one of my teammates, Brook Landt. Visit her blog at www.brooklandt.theworldrace.org to see more of what the Lord has done in her heart!
My team faced a bit of a hiccup. A little bump in the road. Feelings were hurt. Problems needed to be solved.
We decided that the only way to solve our personal hurts and pains was to lay our insecurities and fears on the table. Whatever we were feeling, whatever lie we were believing needed to be put on the table. This way the rest of the group could debunk and uproot those lies. Through a lot prayer, we began to see where healing needs to take place, where strongholds need to be uprooted, where lies need to be removed. Whoa, yeah, God is good and a God of healing.
Here’s the list of insecurities that we came up with:
I’m not beautiful
I’m not enough
I’m not worth anything
I’m not likeable
I’m not good enough
I’m not funny
I’m not wanted
I’m boring
I’m not valued
I’m not heard
When I stared into the eyes of my teammates, all I could think was that’s not true. Those things are not true of them at all. Why are they believing that as their truth? I wanted to yell, that’s not true, don’t believe it! What a stinking lie! The enemy is very sneaking and attacks where we are most vulnerable. He attacks the places where we hurt. The places that he knows are soft and not fortified with truth. Then, we develop a blind spot to them; we are unable to fight against the enemy’s lies now.
Then I looked inward, how many of these have affected my life? How many of these things do I still believe as truth? The answer hit me, quite a few.
It’s really beautiful because we are a group of six people who get to call each other higher. We get to uproot these lies and speak truth. We get to call out the insecurities that have held us hostage. That have made us weaker than we truly are. Because let’s be honest, we are all powerful in Christ!
Let’s call those insecurities out! Let’s call each other higher!
