Affirmed(past tense)
State as a fact, assert strongly and publicly
Truth
A fact or belief that is accepted as true
What affirmed truths are you still affirming and believing? Maybe about who are you, what you do, what you’ve been through or who has hurt you.
For me it was the opinions of others. It was how people viewed me, which were not true and even if it WAS that is NOT who I am in the present. For far to long I cared about everyone else options about me and I allowed it to become my truth. One day, who knows when I started to realize I didn’t like how those words made me feel about myself. I questioned my worth, I second guessed everything because of the perception of others. I hated it mostly because I knew deep down inside that was not the real me.
I was told I was ugly, selfish, mean, rude, bad attitude, a bird, loud, the list goes on. You know I actually really started calling myself all those things. I literally started accepting everything that was spoken about me. Now that I think about it and look back, many of those labels/lies that I allowed to be spoken over me were spoken by the company I kept. Situations I found myself in I permitted because of the words people spoke over me. This was cycle was on constant repeat for years. How’d it stop? All I can say is but God. God saved me from myself and he keeps me. I made a decision to stop listening to the negative and maybe try listening to what God had to say about me. When I listened to His words concerning me there was a change.
Let me tell you something about change, most people don’t want to do it and don’t want you to do it. Especially if they are someone who may not be trying to change themselves. So what the enemy would do is use that to deter me from trying. Every time I saw that God was working on me in a specific area(ex.my attitude) and I know what He was doing in me, here comes a negative voice. Situations would occur, people would say things that would be triggering, or I would just constantly hear the same noise about who I used to be. No one ever had anything good to say. What was happening was distraction, distraction to keep me from growth or any type of evolving. The enemy will always try to keep you bound or get you back into bondage to something that God is trying to free you from or may have done so already.
You you shouldn’t define yourself based on anything but truth, Gods truth. The truth about who you are come from no one but Him because he knows you the best. he knows you better than you know yourself.
God has freed me from so much hurt, disappointment, unforgiveness, bitterness, jealousy, anger, pain, depression, feelings of being unworthy, feelings of being unloved and people. I say people because I used to base my identity on certain people, I did not know who I was without them or how I would go on without them.
If nothing else, I want you to walk in your truth.
“Death and Life are in the power of the tongue: And they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.” Proverbs 18:21
“and ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free.” John 8:32