Lies!

Replacing the devil's lies with God's truth
Passive Christians (not voting, praying acting, being selfish keeping our faith to ourselves. Being an introvert?)
I am a good wife you are a good husband
Fear that keeps you from being effective
Feeling bad about yourself that keeps you from being effective
Speak the truth as though it were already true
Using scripture. I am patient. I am kind.

This is one of new favorite things that I just can't believe took me so long to figure out! Y'all the devil is so sneaky and he is such a liar! I spent so long not being an effective tool for God because I didn't think I was good enough. I didn't think I had anything to offer. I thought I was a bad wife. I thought I was a bad mother. I wasn't doing my best to be healthy. Ugh. I believed all the lies! This literally makes me sick to my stomach to think about. He wants me to believe all this and more because it cripples me.

This first started to break for me when I heard God ask me one night, as I was lying in bed stressing out about what another person thought of me, "But did you please me?" Well yeah I didn't do anything scripturally wrong. 🤷 So then I started just asking myself that every night when I laid down. Instead of playing the usual reel of how many stupid things did I say and do today, I started saying,"Did I do my best? Did I please God?" Life changing!

Then at random when Jeff and I were out of town together and kind of agrivating each other I just turned to him and said the truth is I am a wonderful wife and you are a wonderful husband. Neither of us are perfect but the underlying truth is I have a fantastic husband AND my husband has a fantastic wife!! To kick this off we made a little game out of who could say you're such a wonderful wife or you're such a wonderful husband for the rest that day. Game changer!

Since then my eyes have just been opened to all of these lies and how they were holding me back. And I just get SO mad! The devil has no authority that you don't give him. None! I will not live defeated, feeling sorry for myself, or give up on my dreams because of fear and self doubt! And I have a lot of lost time to make up for!!! What lies are you believing?