Satan’s trap of “Insecurity” (3 of 5).
WHAT DOES AN INSECURE PERSON BELIEVE ABOUT THEMSELVES?
1. “I can never accomplish this task; I can’t do it”
Note:
A person does not HAVE to remain feeling insecure.
– They shouldn’t let someone else
talk them into that condition.
– They shouldn’t believe the lies
that are told about them.
– They shouldn’t live the lies
that are told about them.
Note:
There are some things in life that we can’t do, BUT…
– We can do anything that God has equipped us to do.
– We can do anything that God wants us to do.
He will not call us to do something we can’t do.
– We may not always feel like it;
we may not always feel up to it.
But we should never accept the idea…
– That we can’t, or that it is beyond us,
so we won’t even try.
2. I’m a failure.
– God doesn’t create failures
– All of us have failed at certain things in our life,
but that doesn’t make us a failure.
– Most scientists succeed after many failures, but…
– They don’t get discouraged.
– They don’t give up and quit after their failures.
– They succeed because they never say, “I’m a failure”.
3. I’m just ugly.
– Whatever we tell ourselves, and
whatever we imagine ourselves to be,
that is what we will become.
– If we convince ourselves that…
– We are incompetent
– We are failures
– We are losers
….Then we will act out what we believe.
– God gave us the gift of imagination.
– It is a powerful gift.
– If it is used incorrectly,
it can cause all kinds of problems in our life.
– If we imagine we are a loser and nobody likes us,
then we will act in a way
that causes our imagination to become a reality
(people will begin to treat us as losers).
4. I’m a loser.
– I never get it right.
– I knew I wouldn’t get it right.
– I’m not a very lucky person.
– God wants us to live on the skills, abilities and talents He
has given us (luck has nothing to do with it).
– We are to act on the confident strength that He provides.
– We are to live with the blessings He has provided.
– We are NOT losers.
5. I never get any recognition.
– If we don’t expect it,
then we react in ways that prevent us from getting it.
– A lot of the times we are impacted by the words of others,
but sometimes we are affected by what we tell ourselves.
– If we expect to overcome insecurity, we need to be confident
because of what God has done in our lives.
6. I’m incompetent about everything.
– “I don’t do anything really well”
– “I don’t excel anywhere”
– “That’s who I am, I will never be anything more”
– “Why should I try to do better, when I can’t do any better?”
– We CAN be better; we CAN do better;
we CAN be competent once we start believing the right way.
7. I can’t see anything good about myself.
– All of us can pick out something about ourselves
that’s not the best in the world.
– Who do we compare ourselves with?
– When we say to ourselves, “I can’t”, then we respond
in a way that makes it impossible to succeed.
– When we say, “By the grace of God, I can, and I will”,
then we utilize the super-power of the living God within us,
and we CAN succeed.
– We have to stop feeding our insecurities.
8. I don’t deserve it.
– “I don’t deserve God’s forgiveness” (who does?)
– “I don’t deserve the blessings of God” (who does?)
– “I don’t deserve recognition”.
– When someone compliments us,
we say things like, “I don’t deserve it”.
We need to learn to say two words – “Thank you”.
– If someone has a genuine feeling toward us and wants to
compliment us, but we respond with words like,
“I know I don’t deserve it”…
– We crush their spirit of encouragement.
– They miss out on the joy of saying something to us
that is very precious to them
(they may have given it a lot of thought).
Example:
You may know someone who is
discouraged or depressed and you want to
lift their spirits with an encouraging word.
When they start “playing it down”,
it leaves you feeling empty
(neither one gets any benefit from your efforts).
– We need to let people give us compliments,
and accept them.
– This can carry over into our relationship
with God, …we don’t deserve to be blessed,
so we don’t expect to be blessed.
9. I don’t belong.
– When we say this to ourselves, we are telling ourselves
that we are a worthless nobody.
– It affects us in a negative way,
but look at how others can be affected.
– A father says, “I don’t belong in this family”
and walks away from his children and his wife.
– A mother says, “I don’t belong” and leaves her family.
– A child says, “I don’t belong in this family” and walks out.
– A person says, “I don’t belong in this group of believers”
and turns his or her back on God.
– We have no right to say we don’t belong (especially believers
because we all belong to the family of God).
We belong in our earthly families as well.
10. People are only being nice to me
because they want something from me.
– We put ourselves in a position where no one
can do anything nice for us, for fear of a confrontation
(“What do you want?”).
– This is the type of impact insecurity can have in our lives.
This list will probably make an insecure person feel really bad.
If there are some things we can relate to, that’s good, because it
means we are admitting the reality of some insecurities in our lives.
God can crush this mold we are in, and help us to break out of it
so we can be the type of person He wants us to be.
We have heard how Jesus can make us free
(this is an area where it can happen).
We need to be careful about saying negative things
to ourselves (even if it is just in our thoughts);
these thoughts can mold us into someone we don’t want to be.
If our imagination is that strong,
and has that kind of an impact on who we are,
then we should fill our imagination with good thoughts.
– God’s love for me is unconditional.
– God will never leave me or forsake me.
– I will have all the strength I need to fulfill His plan for me.
– God has a plan for me.
– God will meet my needs (not my desires, but my needs).
– God will always do what is right for me.
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