I have a confession and an apology to make to all my wonderful readers.  I have not written a post in almost 2 months.  I have missed my writing time and I have missed hearing comments from all of you; receiving an email that I had a comment was always the highlight of my day!  To know that God used me to touch another life was always a miraculous feeling and one that I always look forward to receiving.  However, I allowed fear to overcome me and stop me from writing.  I allowed fear to take control of my life.  I listened to negative self talk that told me I was not good enough to write and that I did not ever need to write again.

Let me explain how this fear came about.  In one of my writings on another site, I made a mistake and hurt someone.  The mistake was not intentional and honestly, my intention was to to help the person, not hurt them.  I was persecuted for my mistake and I simply felt terrible.  This experience stopped me in my tracks.  I allowed it to cut off a part of my life that I enjoyed so deeply.

I feel that this blog is part of my purpose.  I write so that others may know that they are not alone and hopefully others will have a deeper, richer love walk with God.  By not writing, I was not being obedient to God and His plan for my life.  Thank God I had a wonderful life coach and one of my dear friends help me to see that I needed to get over my fear and start writing again.  I quickly repented for allowing this fear to stop me and decided I had to move on.

Friends, I tell you all this because fear is very real and if we allow fear to control our lives, it can prevent us from having all of God’s blessings.  The devil knows that he can use fear to control us and stop us from doing what God has called us to do for Him here on earth.  The only way we can overcome fear is with faith.  We must have faith in God that He will bring us through any circumstance that life dishes out to us!

I encourage you to watch this 4 minute video.  It blessed me and I pray that it blesses you!

The devil loves to plant seeds of lies into our lives that can feed our fears.  Those lies that we believe are our negative self talk.  We need to fill our thoughts with God’s words so that we can have positive self talk!  The devil was planting the lies in me that I was not good enough to write and that I shouldn’t write again.  I was believing these lies and actually saying these things to myself in my mind.  Thank God, I am finally believing the truth, which is God’s word that He tells me about myself.  As long as I was continuing to believe the lie of the devil, I was trapped in my fear.   Remember:  self talk is based on our thoughts, our thoughts determine our attitude and our attitude determines our actions.  Change your thoughts, change your life!  I am curious and would love to know, what is your self talk?

God bless,

Kristen

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