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INSECURITY: GOD SAYS I AM

Do you know that preachers tend to be one of the most insecure groups of people on the planet?

Ironic, don't you think? Especially if you realize that insecurity might be the ultimate insult to God.

Think about it. If I believe the lies of my insecurities, it's as if I believe God didn't quite get it right when He put this calling on my life.

The Chatterbox loves to point out those things I see in myself as imperfections and convince me that's who I am. And sometimes I can be tricked into believing it.

What's interesting is that God also sees all my imperfections. As a matter of fact, He knows what they are better than I do. He knows everything that's wrong with me and why it's wrong. Yet, when God talks about who I am, he says things such as:

I am fearfully and wonderfully made in His image.

I am sealed with His promise.

I am redeemed.

In Matthew 4, the devil had no chance against Jesus when he
tempted him with lies in the desert, because at the end of Matthew 3, when
Jesus was baptized, He heard the simple affirmation of God's word:

"This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased."

Jesus understood that, before His ministry began, His Father
loved Him and was pleased with Him. So, when it came to defeating the devil,
Jesus did not draw his strength from his own opinion of himself, or from the
opinion of the people around him. He drew strength from His Father's words.

God speaks the same word over us every day. We just have to hear
it.

If we push aside the lies of the Chatterbox and focus on the
words, "God says I am," we don't have
to live up to anyone else's expectation,
or even our own. Instead, we can begin to live out of the perfect affirmation's already given us.

PRAY:


God, thank you for making
me unique. You have a purpose for my life that far exceeds my own ability or
expectation. Teach me to lean solely on what you say about me. In Jesus name.