What You Think Is Not A True Reflection Of Who You Are
Thesis Statement: Satan has rendered women powerless by creating within us a dissatisfaction with our bodies and who we were created to be. This dissatisfaction with how we look and see ourselves permeates every area of our lives, and is producing discouraged, fear filled, and insecure women. By changing the way we perceive ourselves, we can dislodge the heel of Satan's foot from our necks, stand, and gain our life back.
To Live A Life Of Power And Abundance
I have been wrestling with what God is calling me to do for awhile now. What is it that women need in order to fulfill their God ordained calling? The things that He has prepared in advanced for them to do? He has given me a passion to see women soar like eagles, to be courageous as a lioness, and to become all God has designed them to be. That passion burns within me, and brings me to tears every time I think about you and your dreams. The question that kept me up at nights is this: what exactly keeping you from taking the steps needed to make your dreams a reality. The dreams that God has placed in your heart. God wants those dreams to become a reality more than you do, because those dreams are your "works" God prepared in advanced for you to do!
The thesis statement above is what I believe God has laid on my heart; he is asking me to speak truth into your heart about this particular issue, and He promises that I will see your "dead bones" rise to life. How many of you want to live a life of strength, promise, power, and potential? Do you want to dislodge the heel of Satan, Stand, and gain your life back? An abundant life can be yours! How? Change the way you think! The first thoughts you need to take "captive" are the lies that your entertaining about how you see yourself. Lies that keep your self esteem, self worth, and self confidence in the gutter! Stop it NOW!
The Past Does Not Indicate Your Future
You may be asking, how? All I have is my journey and what God has done in my life. Believe me, I spent most of my life in the gutter of self condemnation! Satan had me by the neck with an eating disorder for over 10 years, and if that wasn't enough caught me in another addiction of alcohol. The pain of trying to destroying myself with starvation needed a salve, and I used alcohol to mask the pain. Guess what? This made things even worse, and I would lay in bed at night asking God to just make the pain go away and take me home. I did not want to live anymore! He obviously said NO to this prayer in order to bring me tremendous joy, and to bring you freedom!
He is turning the pain of my past into something good! Just like He promises in Romans 8:28 (and we tend to doubt His promises). He totally delivered me from my eating disorder, He has shown me how special and precious I am to Him, and He has revealed to me my talents, gifts, and purpose. He wants to do all of this and more in your life too!
Don't Fall For his Dirty Tricks
There are may different ways Satan feeds our dissatisfaction, it does not always manifest itself in disordered eating, however, with the billions spend on diet "plans" I would say it is one of his most effective tools. He also uses shopping, romance, busyness, career success, etc all to feed the dissatisfaction with who we are. These things can never fill the void in our lives because it will never be enough. No matter how thin we get, how much stuff we have, how much others love and appreciate us, or how successful we become, we will always want more. Look at Eve, she had everything. EVERYTHING! Yet Satan slithered up to her and offered her the one thing that she wasn't suppose to have. She looked at that fruit and saw that it was desirable, BUT God did not desire for her to taste it, to experience it.
There are things in this life that we can look at, admire, and appreciate but we are never to experience. I will NEVER have an hourglass figure! I can workout and diet for the rest of my life, and it will never produce the desired results that I want to achieve. I could also work at trying to be someone that people gathered around because of her outgoing personality. I am not outgoing, spontaneous, or energetic! It's humorous and exhausting trying to picture myself in this role. God has created me with a very straight figure, a personality that is more on the serious side, and gifts and talents that are unique to me and my calling.
You Were Created For More
How has God created you? Instead of looking in the mirror and wishing someone else was staring back at you, what if you could look at yourself and see you are wonderfully made, have unique experiences, talents, and gifts, and believe that God wants to use all of YOU! Here is what I'm asking you to do, Stop Hiding! Let yourself come out, and allow God to help you fulfill your calling. That sound great and all Torrie, but how do I do that? Start doing things you enjoy. What brings you joy? Grab some paper and start writing down the things that YOU want to do. Don' think about all the reason why you could never do those things, just start writing and them pick one and go do it. You have just been given a $100 therapy tip!
For me, God used fashion to help me appreciate the body I have instead of constantly wanting something that I would never have. By putting on an outfit that I looked and felt great in, changed my perception of who I was. I was able to look past the "flaws" to see that I was not that bad. I could actually look good! In time, he took this slight shift in my thinking to permeate all areas of my life with confidence and purpose. I now live a life of freedom, power, and potential! If I can live a life of abundance, SO CAN YOU!
God has created and enabled me to encourage women to TRUST Him by declaring the Truth of God. I am to live free and to lead others to freedom. He has given me a desire to see women become all God has created them to be and to live on purpose. He has given me wisdom and discernment to see where they need healing, and encourage them to peal back the layers of their lives to emerge as they really are, uniquely created and loved by the Creator.
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