The Challenge

I have made great strides (with the help of family and good friends) in getting back to being confident in who and whose I am.  But I recently noticed I was falling back into old patterns that sank me into depression so deep, I became a none person.  Such as thinking/saying:  ‘I don’t know enough’, ‘I can’t’, ‘it’s too late’, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.  I refuse to let that happen again.  So does God.  He got me out of the first round and I know He doesn’t want to have to do it again.

All last week, the Holy Spirit kept tapping me on the shoulder about it.  By Sunday, there was a constant argument going in my head.  (Stubborn? Me? Surely not.)  I went home that afternoon to do nothing (but stew), again.  Instead I left the house, for a second time, and took myself back uptown to a movie.  That was a major step forward for me.

Experts say it takes 21 days to form a new habit.  I want to form is a new imagine of myself on the inside that no one can alter or take away.  I want to see myself the way God sees me. 

Easy, right?  Wrong.  We are constantly bombarded with negative things.  Most of the time we don’t even realize this onslaught is affecting us.  The slide can be so gradual we don’t notice it.

Another thing I’ve also heard is that it takes words to interrupt a thought.  So, this is what I have decided.  I am going to find 21 scriptures that tell me how God sees me and starting June 15, I am going to speak them over myself several times a day; one for each of the 21 days.  If the experts are correct, at the end of the 21 days I should have a God image of myself firmly planted in me.

I’m looking forward to the adventure.  Anyone care to join me?