-Truth: God is love, His love for me is not dependent
on what I do for Him but who He is (1 John 4:8). Spending time with Him receiving His love
does grow your relationship and thus produce a desire to be more consistent.
-Lie: Father is disappointed in me because I am
still wrestling with the same struggle and I haven’t gotten victory.
-Truth: All God’s disappointment because of sin was
poured out on Jesus, this includes yours (2 Corinthians 5:21). God once spoke to me that if He was
disappointed in me, He would have to be disappointed in Jesus (I am in Him) and
that will never happen.
-Lie: Father would love me more if I would just
share the gospel, He is ashamed of me because I am not bold.
-Truth: As we receive Father’s unconditional love for
us then we begin to love others and seek to share the Good News (1 John
4:7-11). Greatest Commandment is to love
God with all our heart, soul, and strength (Matthew 22:37-39). You will love your neighbor as you love
yourself and you will love yourself as you receive Father’s love for you “in
Christ”.
-Lie: Father is angry with me for how I keep
getting stuck in the same pattern of selfishness and self-centeredness.
-Truth: You are a New Creation and the old has passed
away, selfishness and self-centeredness are part of the old self (2 Corinthians
5:17 and Romans 6:3-6).
-Lie: Father is disappointed with me because I don’t
have more joy, peace, and patience by now.
-Truth: He who began a good work in you will carry it
to completion (Philippians 1:6). We
don’t produce Fruit of the Spirit by our own effort, instead by yielding to the
work of the Spirit in our lives.
-Lie: Father feels I should be farther along in my
maturity by now and look more like Jesus than I do.
-Truth: Father has taken responsibility to father you
through all your stages of growth and is even able to use any and all
circumstances to conform us to the image of Jesus (John 15:1, Romans 8:28-29). The enemy of our souls loves to get us to
self-evaluate, either we end up in pride because we think we are doing so well
or the pit because we are a failure.
Either way he wins. Agree with
Father that He is causing all things to work together for your good (Romans
8:28-29)
-Lie: I am too broken and dysfunctional for Father
to love me. He can accept and love
others but not me.
-Truth: Father loved us at our worst while we were
yet sinners, brokenhearted, in bondage, prisoners. He has promised to oversee our journey from
death to life (Romans 3:23, Romans 5:6 & 8, Ephesians 2:1-7).
You shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free,
Bret
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