My heart is racing, feeling like it is going to beat out of my chest. That’s when I knew I had to stand up. I sure didn’t want to though. I had never thought about it before but in that moment the Lord so graciously whispered into my ear, ‘you have a voice and you deserve to be heard’ ‘Excuse me, what was that, God??’ ‘Stand up.’ My squadmates around me, standing up and speaking, out loud, truths over themselves. So somehow (God), I actually stood up! In front of almost 50 people! (introverts worst nightmare) I stood! And said, “I have a voice and I deserve to be heard!” I had never felt so confident saying one sentence before.
After that, the Holy Spirit reminded me of earlier that day my voice was being heard. We went evangelizing in a nearby neighborhood and the Holy Spirit diminished all my fear and walked with me in boldness and confidence. I got to talk to an amazing mother and pray over her and her husband, and she listened. IT WAS SO COOL!
Because I have a voice and I deserve to be heard.
If you have ever talked to me, you know I have a super raspy voice. Little did I know this made me feel inferior in all conversations. It made me feel so unworthy of being heard. It made me feel unvalued. It made me so unconfident in myself and my words. These lies I had believed about myself without even fully knowing I was believing them had seriously taken a toll on the way I live.
Not anymore.
The enemy has no hold of my voice anymore.
I’m not going to let him.
Wanna know why?
The enemy has already been defeated! He literally has zero/zilch/nada space to have a hold of me because I belong to Jesus. My Father took all of that on the cross. He took all the self harming thoughts, the unworthiness, the feeling of being unvalued and NAILED IT to the cross, forever. No more hiding behind others. No more letting others take my words from me. My words are so powerful. My value is from and in Christ and nothing else. I am worthy of my words.
I can’t even begin to try to tell you the freedom I felt in that moment. Picture this: a large chain, hanging around your neck, dragging the ground and you had walked around like that for years and years. Until one day that chain is broken and you can freely move around. Imagine that kind of freedom, but better. That is the closest picture I can give you to this feeling. Friend, let me be the first to tell you that freedom feels real good.
So what chain of yours is unbroken? What do you need freedom from? Come to Christ and simply ask. He will break them all, and then some more you didn’t even know about. He wants you to have freedom.
I picture my Papa just standing at His throne jumping up and down, throwing some fist bumps in the air, cheesin’ hard, so full of excitement for me. YES PAPA! THANK YOU! All the glory be to You. There is no way I could’ve done this. But man am I thankful for a God who can.
I have a voice and I deserve to be heard.
Thank you, friends!
xo,
Kylie
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