Positive Self-Talk (countering negative misbeliefs)

Grace51 · #11 5th November 2011, 09:01 AM

thanks for posting this thread, i have the exact same problem for such a long time.
esp the part about you dont have to be liked by everyone to be happy....

Jeffshamburg · #12 5th November 2011, 09:57 AM

God new you before you were in your mother's womb...and He loves us so much

skaym · #13 24th June 2012, 06:09 PM

Our Thinking, emotions and actions are all connected and what we think will make the difference between Victory and defeat. A few months ago the Lord woke me up with a scripture in Deuteronomy 2. He told Moses you have compassed this mountain long enough its time to go Northward. Which meant its time to go forward! I believe that whatever we struggle with we will come again to full circle. I struggle with self-doubt and confidence so much so that it takes away my joy and peace in the Lord. Recently I had a women's meeting and I spoke on 2 Cor. 10:4-5 The weapons of our warfare are not carnel but mighty through God in casting down imaginations and every high thing that exalted itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ. The last few months I have not resisted negative thinking but I am trying thru God to capture every thought that does not line up with God's word and not allow it to reign in my mind. Our focus can be so much on what we don't have, how we have failed, and will we ever overcome but God has given us the tools that we may succeed. When satan comes knocking on our mind we have to close the door and keep him out. His job is to keep us from our full potential in the purpose that God has for us and if he can invade our minds than he has the upper-hand. I ask for prayer for those who our God's people to pray for one another and lift each other up in these trying times. Pray for me that i will achieve the mind of Christ and thus fulfill my purpose in the Kingdom of God. Lord Bless to all

lily00 · #14 27th June 2012, 04:30 PM

thank you for this skaym. 2 Corinthians 10:4-5 has been a verse that has helped me a lot in taking my thoughts captive. I learn the more I fill my mind with scripture on what God says of me, the more Satan's lies don't reign in my mind. it is a daily battle, but we have the victory if we trust in the Word!

skaym · #15 30th June 2012, 01:35 PM

lillie00 to trust in God has to be our focus. So many times I have tried to go in my own strength but failure would be the result everytime. I was thinking recently about a few yrs ago the Lord prompted me to start a Women's support group. I did exactly that and the Lord was blessing it and using me to minister to these women and then distractions came along and I lost focus and have struggled to regain ground. But I was thinking of the scripture in Romans 8:28 (KJV)
28And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. So many times its during the "working" that we struggle to trust God. Times that I have not been able to pray or just my desire was not where it needed to be. Wondering if God had left me or has he taken my calling away and given it to someone else. All these thoughts the enemy has used to try and defeat me. But then I begin to think of all the knowledge of God. How he knows the end from the beginning. How he knew what frame of mind spiritially I would be in right at this present moment and also how I would loose focus and get off track.....But yet he chose me! He called me out for a purpose to fulfill his plan and though I have lost my way in a sense, yet he knew this and it has all been part of the working that I might be able to learn of him through my suffering and failures. This past month I had a ladies meeting and let me tell you I struggled with lack of confidence but I am going to trust that this stronghold will be pulled down through the mighty hand of God and I will succeed though the enemy would try to invade my mind and tell me otherwise. We have been made more than conquerors thru the Blood of the Lamb and the Word of our testimony. The Key is that we have to be willing to not love our life but willing to go to the death of this flesh to be able to fulfill the plan that God has for us. Thank you for commenting. Just writing this now the Lord has touched me because I am not focusing solely on myself but sharing with someone else my testimony. Lord Bless

KathyW · #16 11th July 2012, 03:08 PM

One of the best (and most reliable) methods of self-talk is to quote scripture. In doing so, you are proclaiming truth! For example, when you are full of fear, state clearly 2 Timothy 1:7 -- "God has not given me a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and a sound mind." If God has not given me fear, then it is coming from somewhere else. I don't need to listen to fear. Rather God gives me a sound mind.

ChaseThisLight · #17 17th July 2012, 10:15 PM

Originally Posted by lily00

Hi!!!!!! I thought I would share something I have learned that has very much helped me. For the very longest time, I told myself all this junk, that was very critical, self-destructive, and untrue. These are things that I told myself for years, such as, "I make too many mistakes, I say and do dumb things, I'm stupid, people must like me, or I am not happy, etc." I told myself these things a lot, and hence I believed these things. I was asked to write down everything negative that I believed about myself a few months ago, and I had about 60 things.

Then though, I was challenged to write out positive counterstatements to every negative thing I told myself. For example:

I make too many mistakes: It is okay to make mistakes. I learn every time I make one and it doesn't make me any less of a person. everyone makes mistakes and I don't make too many.

I say and do dumb things: I am learning to have better discretion, but I have said and done a lot more things that are helpful and good then dumb things.

I'm stupid: I graduated 22 out of 747 in my class. people have told me that I am a quick learner, and any time I work, people tell me I am a hard worker.

people must like me or I am not happy: it is nice if people like me, but I can be happy if people don't. I have family and friends I can be certain who love me and I don't have to be anyone else or do anything to make them like me.

So it has only been a few months at this, because I constantly find myself thinking something negative, and I have to stop, argue against it, and tell myself the Truth everytime. I am giving myself the freedom to be happy and recognize the person God made me. My self-esteem has greatly improved.

So this thread is open to anyone who wants to comment, or make positive counterstatements of their own. thought we could all support each other.

Shara

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