Daughter, Be Free and Confident!

If you are like me, you hear and say this in your heart and sometimes you confess it with your mouth, “I am never enough!"

I believe this lie repeatedly. Because of childhood issues of abandonment and abuse, I have wrestled and battled over the years with overwhelming lies of the enemy, feelings of low self-worth and extreme insecurity, while being haunted by a lack of confidence. I feel unworthy, insecure and doubt that I have what it takes…for my husband, children, family, ministry, church…and for the LORD. It’s a common, destructive lie from the evil one meant to cause me despair, guilt, and isolation. It shifts my focus from God's sufficiency to my own human effort. 

Do you wrestle with the lie that you are never enough?

While the enemy whispers that your inadequacy defines you, God’s Word says you are His beloved daughter, His masterpiece, His workmanship and you are deeply loved.

The truth is that our human efforts are never enough!

It’s okay to embrace your weaknesses. You are not supposed to be enough on your own. When you admit your limitations, you can rely on Christ’s strength, which is perfected in weakness.

His Grace is always more than enough! His Power does not depend on your performance, it depends on your position…Christ living in you!

I continue to experience transformational healing truth, restoration and freedom through the power of The Holy Spirit living in me. By engaging in spiritual warfare, I am learning to combat the lies of the enemy by taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ.

Start taking your thoughts of inadequacy captive and replace those lies with scriptural truths, such as: "I am a beloved daughter of God." 1 John 3:1

"I am divinely loved." Jeremiah 31:3

"The LORD my God is with me, the Mighty Warrior who saves. He will take great delight in me..." Zephaniah 3:17

"I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength." Philippians 4:13

Let God be your strength! Instead of striving to be enough, focus on the truth that God is enough, and He is working in your life.

Your confidence and competence come from God!

In 2 Corinthians 3:4,5 you are encouraged to rely on God's strength rather than your own, especially when facing challenging tasks. This Scripture emphasizes your total dependence on God for competence in life and ministry, rejecting self-reliance. 

Don’t be self-reliant, be God-reliant!

The Lord continues to lovingly and gently take me on a victorious journey of being confident as I am able to see myself through My Father's Eyes. He looks at my heart, and my greatest desire is to be more like Jesus.

Can you see yourself through your Father’s Eyes?

When He looks at you, He sees a beautiful masterpiece created in His Image. You are a display of HIS Splendor. (Isaiah 61:3)

When you look in the mirror, you will see a display of God's splendor because you are being transformed into His image.  You were created by your Loving Father and when you see yourself as He sees you, you proclaim,

“I thank you, High God – you are breathtaking! Body and soul, I am marvelously made! I worship in adoration- what a creation! You know me inside and out; Your thoughts toward me – how rare, how beautiful! God, I’ll never comprehend them! Oh, let me rise in the morning and live always with you!” Psalm 139:13-18 MSG

As you gaze in the mirror, instead of focusing on your physical appearance (like an outward veil that covers who you truly are), focus on your inward beauty of reflecting God's love, kindness, and compassion. God is in the process of changing you "from glory to glory" increasing your radiance into his glorious image, a display of His splendor. (2 Corinthians 3:18)

Don't get caught up comparing yourself with others.

When you get caught up in the comparison trap, you focus on what you lack rather than what you have. It steals your joy, peace, and contentment. As a display of His Splendor, you are in your own season, you may be in a planting season, hidden and growing your spiritual roots, and others may be in a harvest season of bearing fruit.

This Scripture warns that measuring yourself against others is not wise, as it mislabels the season you are in and steal your God-given identity. Instead of comparing your "private, hidden, winter months" with someone else's "public, summer harvest," focus on being faithful on your own journey.

Your worth comes from who God says you are, not how you measure up to your "Facebook or Instagram neighbor"

This Scripture promises that God, who initiated salvation and transformation ("a good work") in you, will faithfully continue and complete this process until the return of Jesus Christ. It assures that your spiritual growth is a lifelong, divine process rather than a self achieved goal, offering hope, security, and encouragement so that you may persevere through life's challenges.

God's good work in you is to fulfill his redeeming purpose through you!

He promises to redeem your pain and rewrite your story for the display of HIS Splendor.

What is your passion and purpose? What is God calling you to for HIS Eternal Glory?

My passion is to inspire and challenge you to rise up and stand firm in your God-given identity and purpose instead of sinking in insecurity.

The more clarity you have about who God is, who you are, why you are here, and what God designed you to do, the more confident you will be in Christ!

Beloved Daughter, I am praying for you to be confident and free!

In HIS love,

Karen