Proverbs 3:5-6 (The Message) Trust God from the bottom of your heart; don’ try to figure out everything on your own. Listen for God’s voice in everything you do, everywhere you go; he’s the one who will keep you on track.
Do you ever find it’s easy to be misunderstood, quite innocently, by the things we say? I’d just commented to Chris that it was raining quite heavily and was due to rain all morning. He immediately thought I meant I didn’t want to go out as planned, but that thought hadn’t even crossed my mind. It was just an observation I was making that it was raining!😊
So often we read into what people are saying and they’re not meaning what we think at all! There is no deep hidden agenda behind it, just a face value comment. Sometimes it comes out of our own insecurities caused by past negative experiences with people, and the enemy can cause us a lot of trouble with it, to make us doubt or second guess ourselves. We really need the wisdom of God, don’t we, not to read into comments things that weren’t intended, to not overthink things!
I was listening to a lady who had battled with self doubt for a long time and it nearly made her give up on her dreams. She learned to turn down the negative voice of self doubt which was loud in her ear, and instead she turned up the volume of the inner small voice which told her she was doing well and to keep going.
She turned down the voice that said you’ll never make it, you can’t do it, you’ve not got what it takes, etc.
She turned up the inner voice in her spirit that told her she was fearfully and wonderfully made, that she was a child of the Most High God, that He loved her unconditionally, that she could do all God was calling her to do, that He was going ahead of her to give her success. I thought what good advice that was so I pass it on.
God is saying the same encouraging things to each one of us, so don’t let any voice of self doubt or misunderstanding what someone has said deceive you. Whatever desire God has given you, keep listening for His voice in everything you do, and go for it with all you’ve got.😊
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