Messages we receive.

I know I said there would be more cheery posts, but it seems God is teaching me some cool lessons and today I want to encourage you, my sweet blogger friend. I don't care if one person reads or nobody reads. This might be the message for YOU today.

God wants you to know You are Beautiful and Loved. 

And I'm truly starting to believe that for myself.

When I was a little girl, I somehow got the wrong message "I wasn't good enough" "I just slip through the cracks" "I'm not important". When I was little older somehow got the message none of the girls at school liked me when they threw rocks at me. When I was in high school I got the message "I wasn't like everyone else" "I was weird". As I've shared my testimony of a coach molesting me, boyfriends breaking my heart, and gone through my struggles...... I started to BELIEVE the wrong messages I was receiving.

Those messages were lies from satan.

satan comes to steal, kill and destroy, and he was out to destroy me.

I got tangled up in his web of lies.

Here's the good news, The Lord is untying my knots and untangling my mess. For the first time in my life, I am believing positive messages.

I am beautiful.

We don't get told the positive messages nearly as much as the negative messages. We ALL have been fed negative messages throughout our lives, but the good news is we DON'T HAVE TO BELIEVE THOSE LIES.

So let me be the first maybe in years to tell you..... You are Beautiful.

Jesus felt emotion, he was fed lies, but he didn't give into the emotion or believe the lies.

Jesus understands our pain.

He died on the cross to take that pain away.

When we feel so tangled up we can't go on, we can turn to Jesus.

All the lies we believe, all the junk that piles up, all the wrong thinking patterns, all hold us back from realizing our true potential, our true beauty.

If satan can make me believe I'm incapable then I won't try to accomplish anything worthwhile. We must listen and obey to the voice of God so that it may go well for us (Jeremiah 7:23).

Emotions are a good thing ladies. Emotions are a gift. They enable us to feel and show compassion and love other people who need love. But giving into emotion, letting them control you and believing the lies only holds us back.

We've all been wounded by wrong words, but we can turn to Jesus and replace all the negative with good messages.

This prayer has really helped me in dark moments, maybe it can help you.
"Jesus, I am glad you understand my feelings and you don't condemn me even when I condemn myself. I don't want to give vent to my emotions. Help me forgive who has wronged me and not slight them, avoid them, or seek to pay them back for the harm they did to me. My emotions sometimes run my life, but I ask you to teach me to appreciate them as a gift you can use for good. Help me not to sit in emotional pit of despair, but to turn to you. Amen."