For most of my life I experienced low self-esteem issues. I was always the one withdrawn in the crowd for fear I would say something stupid. If I said something I thought others believed was stupid, then I internalized that as I am stupid.  I always held back in conversations with others in fear that they would not like me and they would reject me. My negative thinking was killing my self-esteem and I was in need of a solution.

Thank God, He became my solution! He began to teach me that I must line up my way of thinking with His way of thinking.  I must believe what His word tells me about myself.  I accomplished this by meditating on His word daily.  When I began meditating on His word, I began renewing my mind and having a new outlook of myself.  I began speaking His truths about myself and slowly began restoring my self-esteem. I spoke truths such as I am His masterpiece and He knew me before He even created me!  Wow, that’s powerful!

Friend, you are God’s masterpiece, beautifully, and wonderfully made!  I encourage you to speak these words out loud daily.  Your words have power.  God’s word says, “Life and death are in the power of the tongue and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.” So if you speak words of life over yourself, you will gain life.  If you speak death, you will gain death.  God’s word is life, the world’s words are death. You have a choice which types of words you are going to speak into your life.

Speak this over yourself daily and begin renewing your mind (Romans 12:2):

I am God’s masterpiece  (Ephesians 2:10).

You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body and knit me together in my mother’s womb.  Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex!  Your workmanship is marvelous – and how well I know it! You watched me as I was being formed in utter seclusion, as I was woven together in the dark of the womb. You knit me together in my mother’s womb. You saw me before I was born. Every day of my life was recorded in Your book. Every moment was laid out before a single day had passed.  How precious are your thoughts about me, O God! They can not be numbered! (Psalm 139:13-17)

By the grace of God I am what I am, it is all because God poured out his special favor on me—and not without results. (1 Cor. 15:10)

I am deeply loved, fully pleasing, totally forgiven, accepted, and complete in Christ!

To God be the glory! I pray as you read these verses, they will begin to take root in your heart and you will begin to fully understand how wide, how long, how high, and how deep God’s love truly is! (Eph. 3:18)

God Bless,

Kristen

Tags: Change, Fear, Scripture, Self-Esteem

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