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How To Accept God's Truth Over Our Lives:

I want you to imagine someone you love dearly with all of your heart and that someone loving you back. Now, with that person in mind, imagine that they prepare this gift for you. They take the time to shop and pick out something you need, they wrap it up in this beautiful box with your favorite color, and it’s waiting to be opened. This person excitedly gives you the gift, but you reject it because you feel like you don’t deserve this gift. God feels rejected when we don’t receive his truth over who he says we are. I know that God has wanted me to accept his biblical truth over my life: I am fearfully & wonderfully made, that I am worthy, that I am righteous, and that I am the daughter of the highest king. The enemy used my pain, brokenness, and trauma to tell me my worth, and I was deceived enough to believe it. I rejected God's gift again and again. I remember one particular day, I was crying and telling God how I let the amount of money a man paid for me when my biological mother sold me define my worth. That dollar sign was held over my head for so many years. God, in a gentle and loving whisper, said, “My beloved & precious daughter, I sent my one and only son to pay the highest price already. I wanted to be close to you. No man of flesh could ever outbuy that. You are worth plentiful to me.” Our feelings at the moment can be deceitful and wavering. If your feelings contradict what the bible says about you, then your feelings are lying. God's truth remains God's truth despite how you feel.

I want to talk about redemption and restoration. For a long time, I believed that I was less worthy because of the years of abuse my body endured. I was courageous enough to reach out to wear the robe of righteousness that God made for me, but inside, I felt robbed. The enemy came to steal, lie, kill, and destroy. The devil had me believing that he won by stealing my innocence as a child, but my mighty God reminded me that he redeems, heals, and restores. The enemy never wins, ever!