LIES VERSUS THE TRUTH

Welcome to Women Of Valour
which is about
YOU

experiencing your freedom in Christ, being set free,

experiencing the love of God, and opening your blinded eyes

Isaiah 61:1

 

God has been showing me lies that I have believed as the truth in my life over the years. Prayerfully, through reading this post today God will use these words to expose some lies in your life. 

 

UNLOVABLE

 

I believed I was unworthy of being loved due to an attempted rape when I was a little girl. A man broke into my home as I slept and came into my room to rape me. As I grew up, there was another attempt in the woods close to my home. God delivered me before anything happened in both instances but the mere attempt took EVERYTHING from me. For the majority of my life, I felt like I was damaged goods. No man would ever want me. They had destroyed any safe place for me. My home was no longer a sanctuary. Their plans were cancelled but the enemies plan was not. This led me into a constant state of FEAR.

 

The feelings of being unlovable led to feeling lonely as a child and adult. This led to wrong relationships in my life. Detrimental relationships to me because I believed I could never have a man love me for me. So my relationships were mainly with married men. As I have stated before if a man complimented me I was supposed to be with that person. Looks did not matter as long as I got my "compliment fix". I kept trying to fill the void in my life with men. I believed a man could fill the void. I did need a man but HIS NAME was JESUS!!!

 

TRUTH: God had to show me that I was lovable so HE gave me HIS Words. If HIS Words are truth then what I had been believing for soooooo many years were telling me lies. I began to repeat these words over and over and over and over again to myself.

 

God has delivered me from the feelings of being unlovable. But still today, I have to remind myself of God's Words and repeat them back to myself. The enemy wants to try and bring back the old feelings sometimes. Since GOD's Words worked for me they will work for you too. If you can see yourself in any of what I am saying HEAR and BELIEVE the TRUTH of what God is saying to you. As you read replace my name with your own.

 

Jeremiah 31:3 New Living Translation (NLT)

³ Long ago the Lord said to Israel:
“I have loved you, Israel (Andrea), with an everlasting love.
    With unfailing love I have drawn you (Andrea) to myself.   

 

John 3:16 New Living Translation (NLT)

¹⁶ “For this is how God loved the world (Andrea):

He gave^[a] his one and only Son, (JESUS) 

so that everyone (Andrea) who believes in him

will not perish but have eternal life.

 

UNATTRACTIVE

 

I hated looking at myself in the mirror because I saw this ugly person looking back at me. I became VERY withdrawn and very angry but I did not understand that it was a problem. I just thought this is just the way I am. The scared little girl grew to be a scared young woman. I was stuck and did not know how to get unstuck. I was in church on Sunday and Wednesday, like a good church girl, but church was NOT on the inside of me. I would sit there and be screaming on the inside but no one heard my cries.

 

I would be at home sitting in my apartment with the curtains closed because I could not stand the light. I would still be screaming but no one heard me. I would hear voices talking to me and believed they were mine. I would have thoughts to drive into a wall or drive off a cliff. They were suicidal thoughts that I did not understand at the time. But I knew I was too scared to kill myself.

 

TRUTH: God had to show me who I was to HIM and how HE created me. I am a masterpiece more beautiful than anyone else and uniquely made by HIS Hands. You are a princess as well according to God's Words. It is my prayer that God will make this Scripture real to you. He gave me HIS Words to show me the truth to combat the lies.

 

Isaiah 61:3 New Living Translation (NLT)

³ To all (Andrea) who mourn in Israel,^[a]
    he (God) will give a crown of beauty for ashes,
a joyous blessing instead of mourning,
    festive praise instead of despair.
In their (Andrea) righteousness, they (Andrea) will be like great oaks
    that the Lord has planted for his own glory.

 

Psalm 139:13-16 New King James Version

¹³ For You (God) formed my (Andrea) inward parts;
You covered me (Andrea) in my mother’s womb.
¹⁴ I will praise You, for I am (Andrea) fearfully and wonderfully made;^[b]
Marvelous are Your works,
And that my soul knows very well.¹⁵ My (Andrea) frame was not hidden from You,
When I was made in secret,
And skillfully wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.

 

 

INADEQUATE (LESS THAN)

 

Most of my life, I believed there was something wrong with me. I did not fit in anywhere. I did not fit with my family, friends, co-workers. I just could not find my place in this world. I just felt inadequate internally and externally about EVERYTHING. I just could NOT do things quite right. When I would mess up at work or with a man I would turn on the tears and give my sob story. This was my defense mechanism. It worked for many years until God placed a male boss in my life that told me the truth.

 

One of my major problems was comparison. I had compared myself to my mother. My mother knows the King James Version of the Bible like the back of her hand. She has a relationship with the Lord and I was jealous of her for that reason. She would preach to me and tell me how good God was but I did not KNOW God like that. So my feelings of inadequacy was used by the enemy to drive me away from her. I just could not measure up in her eyes. But I knew to run to her for prayer when things got REALLY CRAZY in my life.

 

I also compared myself to other women in my life. I just did not measure up or fit in with any of them. I could not dress like them. I could not get my hair to look like theirs. I was not shaped like them. My complexion was not like theirs. I would always find fault with my looks, my thoughts, my clothes. I believed everything about me was a wreck (like the worst car accident you have ever seen).

 

My feelings of inadequacy left me feeling like I was less than EVERYONE else. I needed to be fixed. I did not believe that God could REALLY FIX me because I was too broken. I was the wreck that had been written off as a "Total Loss" by the insurance company.

 

TRUTH: God had to use HIS Words to show me how HE saw me. I was not inadequate He made me a Princess when I chose to accept Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior. This is a picture of me and you in Psalm 45 if you will choose to believe it. Put your name in it as you read the verses.

 

Psalm 45: 10-15 New Living Translation (NLT)

¹⁰ Listen to me, O royal daughter (Andrea); take to heart what I say.
    Forget your people and your family far away.
¹¹ For your royal husband (Jesus) delights in your  (Andrea) beauty;
    honor him, for he is your lord.
¹² The princess of Tyre^[c] will shower you with gifts.
    The wealthy will beg your favor.
¹³ The bride (Andrea), a princess, looks glorious
    in her golden gown.¹⁴ In her (Andrea) beautiful robes, she (Andrea) is led to the king,
    accompanied by her bridesmaids.
¹⁵ What a joyful and enthusiastic procession
    as they enter the king’s palace!

 

Phillippians 4:13 New Living Translation

 ¹³ For I (Andrea) can do everything through Christ,^[d] who gives me strength.

 

 

I don't know if you realized it as you read but I was ruled by my thoughts and feelings. The Holy Spirit had to reteach me how to think and feel because my thoughts and feeling were lying to me. I had to choose to believe my thoughts and feelings or I could choose to believe the truth. The same applies to you. As God reveals to you more of who you are, You will begin to see more of who God is in your life.

 

Prayer: Lord, expose the lies I have believed to me and give me God's Words to believe and speak the truth to myself.  Bring deliverance to me through YOUR  Words.

 

Question:  What are some lies you have believed in your life?

 (Please share with a comment)