From time to time - well, actually incessantly, the enemy tries to push, kick and keep us down by telling us we aren't good enough to be a Christ-follower, we're too sinful, and we don't have the strength to overcome our weaknesses and change. The last thing to do in moments like these is to give ourselves over to these thoughts and, instead, flip the script and speak the truth that God has given you. Here are some reminders to speak over yourself in these moments.
From "Not good enough to be a Christ-Follower" to "Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God" - John 1: 12
From Too sinful to "There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit." - Romans 8:1
From "We don't have the strength to overcome to "No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us." Romans 8: 37 and "God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation, he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it" - 1 Corinthians 10:13"
We'll always be engaged in this battle, and it's important to remember that God, in knowing this, has equipped us with truth so that we can stand. The individual moments tend to be difficult, but clinging to truth, especially the God-given truth that you have gained the strength to speak over yourself - that will always trump any plot of the enemy.
Finally know this, "For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons,[b] neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, 39 neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord."
Nothing can keep you away from God once you come back to God with a repentant spirit. He is faithful and just to forgive you. (If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. - 1 John 1:9)
Walk boldly as a child of the King.
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