Winning The Battle Over Your Mind (Part 5)

Winning The Battle Over Your Mind (Part 5)

2 Timothy 1:7 "For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind."

Think about an area of your life where your mind tells you that you are destined to remain stuck.  It can be about any part of your life you hope to change.  What’s one thing you’ve essentially decided in your mind is a fact about your position in this life? Does your mind say to you that things will never change?

Stop and think about one time in which the opposite of that “thought” was true for you.  I don’t care how tiny of a victory it was, or even if it was a partial victory.  What’s one moment in time you can look back on and say, “Hey, that was totally unlike ‘me,’ but I did it!”?  Once you identify in your mind self-limiting belief, you can start attacking it.  You can start taking steps forward every day that go against it and overtake the enemy's attack on your mind.

One of the greatest challenges you face today is to simply live your life free from self-judgment. That means to just be who you are right here, right now, regardless.  Too often you use misgiven expectations to escape from yourself and the realities of living in a world where your mind is constantly troubled by now and the future.  Many go to great lengths to avoid the feeling of being alone in this crazy reality we call life.  That's why they hang-out with just about anybody to avoid the feeling of loneliness.  Being alone means dealing with your true feelings in your mind. If you are a child of God you're never alone and you're careful with who you choose to be with. Don't let your mind deceive you in to feeling no one cares, because God always has and does!

At some point in your life you’ve been walked on, used and forgotten.  You’ve let people take advantage of you, and you’ve accepted way less than you deserve.  Yet you shouldn’t regret one moment of it, because in those moments you’ve learned a lot from your bad choices: 

-You’ve learned who you can trust and who you can’t. 

-You’ve learned the meaning of friendship.

-You’ve learned how to tell when people are lying and when they’re sincere. 

-You’ve learned how to be yourself, and appreciate the truly great people and things in your life as they arrive. 

Even though there are some things we can never recover and people who will never be sorry, we now know better for next time.  Remember this:

-None of the injustice you’ve experienced is evidence of some fundamental flaw on your part. 

-None of it makes you unworthy.  It all just means that some people aren’t very good at looking beyond their own egocentric bubble. 

-The fact is that despite the darkness you feel, you have the ability to share your love and light with others and that's an incredible strength.

You won’t always be a priority to others, and that’s why you have to be a priority to yourself.  Learn to respect yourself, take care of yourself, and become your own support system.  Your needs matter.  Start meeting them.  Make your own happiness a priority.  Don’t wait on others to choose you.  Choose yourself, right now! 

-You are enough. 

-You have enough. 

-You do enough. 

Don't let your mind control your attitude; just live right now in the moment with a self-validating, self-loving attitude that God made you for His glory and honor and that's enough!.