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I’ve recently been hit smack in the forehead with some pretty big truths.  It’s stuff I have known for a while, but somehow we seem to forget things easily.  So I’m going to attempt to share a little bit here with you.

For some reason, as women, we tend to beat ourselves up a lot.  We often have this running commentary in our minds: “I’m not good enough.  I can’t do that.  I need to lose weight.  I’ll never receive that promotion.  My house is never as clean as hers.”  You get the idea, and I’m pretty sure I’m not the only one!  Add to that the constant demands on us as women and moms, and we can really start to feel like failures.  We are the ultimate multi-taskers.  Our kids constantly need us.  Our husbands depend on us.  Our employers expect us to do x, y, and z.  What if we just can’t do it all?  Again, I’m quite positive I’m not the only one who occasionally feels as though a nervous breakdown is just around the corner!

Just yesterday in my women’s Sunday School class, our wonderful teacher asked us to share what we felt was our best trait.  This was hard for some of us in the class.  How many women feel ashamed to speak positively about themselves?  How many of us say, “Oh, I’m nothing special.”  Or, “I don’t have any good traits.”

But guess what?  A lot of these thoughts, feelings, and beliefs that run through our minds are LIES!  And guess who is the father of all lies?  Satan.  He WANTS us to be discouraged, beaten down, not believing that we are anything special.  God has totally been challenging me with this over the past couple weeks, but especially last night.  It hit me: I am a CHILD OF GOD.  I am created in HIS image.  He has an incredible plan for my life.  How on earth can I fulfill that plan if I walk around thinking, “I’m nothing special.  I can’t do it.  I’ll never be able to do x, y, z”?  I can’t!  I won’t be able to fulfill God’s amazing plan for me if I don’t BELIEVE what He says about me.  Sometimes we have BIG tasks, BIG responsibilities that God has given us (like marriage, children, jobs, businesses, etc.)  And sometimes we wonder if we are really qualified or cut out for what He has given us.

So let’s just take a minute and think about what He says about us:

Psalm 139:14 – “I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.”

So wait a minute.  If I am made by God, and His works are wonderful, what does that make me?

Philippians 4:13 – “I can do everything through Him who gives me strength.”

Okay, so if we rely on God, we can do anything He calls us to do?  Yup.  We don’t have to have all the skills and abilities ourselves – HE gives us the strength to do it.

2 Chronicles 20:15b – “This is what the LORD says to you: ‘Do not be afraid or discouraged because of this vast army. For the battle is not yours, but God’s.”

When we are facing those major issues that seem impossible, we need to remember whose battle it really is.  It’s not ours, it’s His!!

Here’s a song I was just introduced to, and you really need to listen, and read the lyrics.  It’s powerful.  My prayer is that we would start believing GOD instead of ourselves or Satan.  We need to start believing what HE says about us and about what we are capable of!