3/14/2019 0 Comments Jumping in? I am. . .ready or not!This I my new normal. Writing and posting. Not overthinking, learning not to care so much. That’s how I learned to overcome my nervousness with singing. By. .. well, by just singing. Not caring so much how it came out. Valuing the doing more than the thought of the action or as my sister says replacing one thought with another.
My thought when I am fearful and at places by myself ? God is with me. (Psalm 23:4) My new thoughts concerning my writing? God has not given me the spirit of fear (2 Timothy 1:7 KJV) His strength is made perfect in weakness, (or in my own words - in my doing). (2 Corinthians 12:9) You know, I listen to a lot of business podcasts and they say, “You can’t just think it. You have to DO something!” they preach this from their microphones in some place far, far away. . . But. . . DOING? It’s the “doing part” that makes me nervous The unfamiliarity with a new venture or skill that I'm trying to learn. And this is the part that I don’t want to show up for. The part that gives me adverse physical reactions. That gives me the "shakes", the “I can’t believe that I did this, said that, etc., etc.” Even though in our heart of hearts, this is what we want to be, what we know that we were created to be. But it’s the old adage, the statement, “feel the fear and do it anyway” that alone doesn’t work for me. What I need? I have to have someone or something to hold on to. Someone to go to, someone to talk to, someone who walks me through this process and my mistakes, someone who can alleviate my fears and gives me the right words when negative thinking comes to bombard me. Someone, something who supplies this internal strength to keep me going where on the outside, it may seem that I have it all together but if you really knew me, you’d know that I don’t; that I have a resource, a secret power reserve that access regularly. My new normal only brings me closer to God. My jumping in makes me seek him. I don’t think we can or should (not that people are necessarily trying to) over-simplify the doing process. For some it’s a little more challenging than first thought and the only thing that I’ve found that truly makes it easier is our words. Our internal dialogue. God’s words to be exact and getting them into our hearts. Some of my favorites: "…I am the head and not the tail; I am above and not beneath…" (Deuteronomy 28:13) "…I am fearfully and wonderfully made… "(Psalm 139:14) Affect your thoughts; don’t let them affect you. Fight back to negative words and, negative feelings; Say back and wage war on ‘anti-words’ with God’s words. Guard your heart and the words that press against your mentality on a daily basis with prepared statements given to us out of HIS words. (I’ll put together and post a PDF of God’s words to fight back with soon!) Protect yourself and your identity and take your GOD–given right to stand up and BE. – Because Satan in all his efforts against you is desperately trying to prevent you from being. He did it to me with thoughts of fear, thoughts of inadequacy and thoughts of suicide. Thus, discouraging me from taking action and getting caught up in perfection. And if he is my protection then I must know him, know his words, his strategies, obey him, do things HIS way and trust him even when I don’t understand or feel like it so that I can make sure that I’m doing everything that I know to do to ensure that he’ll always be by my side. So I leave you with this, know that there’s more good in doing, taking action, Being than not being; no matter how much your mind and your body protests. More value in making mistakes rather than playing it safe which makes your life soooo much more interesting than when you don’t jump into it all the way. It’s a roller coaster, but it’s fun and if you trust him by keeping your mind on him, I promise he’ll keep you every step of the way.
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