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Dealing with Self-Esteem

November 16, 2009Kristen 21 Comments »

I have struggled with self-esteem issues for most of my life.  I was always that girl who was looking over her shoulder in fear that someone was looking at her with critizing eyes.  With this fear came the belief that someone didn’t like my hair, or they didn’t like my clothes, or they just didn’t like me.  I would think thoughts such as I wasn’t pretty, or I was a dumb, or I was worthless.  These thoughts haunted me for years until I chose to believe God… I chose to believe His word.

Life is all about choices.  We can choose to love, we can choose to trust, we can choose to believe.  We can choose to either believe the lie of the devil or we can choose to believe God’s word.  For me, I choose God’s word.  God’s word tells us that we are His children, He loves us and He created us.  His word states, “He created man in His own image, in the image and likeness of God he created him (Genesis 1:27).”  God created us in His image.  Did you get that?  He created us like Him. We have His genes and His fingerprints are in us.  His words tells us, “One thing I have desired of the LORD, that will I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the LORD, all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to inquire in His temple (Psalm 27:4).” 

So friends, if God is beauty, and God created us in His image, what does that make you?  Beautiful.  You must be beautifully and wonderfully made because God made you!  He knit you together in your mother’s womb.  You are beauty, everything about you is beautiful and you shouldn’t let the devil tell you otherwise.

When the devil comes knocking on your door and tries to tell you that you are worthless, simply state, “I am fearfully and wonderfully made; God’s work is marvelous (Psalm 139:14).”  You are marvelous!  Watch the video below, it states it all!

Scripture of the day:  I have written your name in the palm of my hand.  You are always in my thoughts! (Isaiah 49:16) 

I challenge you to memorize this verse today.  Speak these words and you will begin to know them as truth.  I hope that these words are healing to you.  Feel free to share your testimonies with us!

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