That’s What You Think

How Do You See Yourself? Others see you as you see yourself. You will never rise above what you think you are. If you think, you can you can. If you think, you can’t you are right. The attitude you have is the life you live. My biggest problem was an I can’t because I am so shy attitude. “That’s just not me. God did not make me like that.” I always focused on what I thought I was not instead of what the Lord said I was. What you put your faith in will become your reality. I saw myself as a shy, wimpy, nobody so that is what I was. I know for sure because that is what everybody called me. People always laughed at me because of the way I acted. I did not act like a confident person. I acted like the nobody I thought I was. Thinking, talking and acting like the failure I thought I was. You will always act like you think. The only one that can cause you to fail is you. The devil or no one else can because they only have the power you give them. I thought I was not who the Lord and my parents said I was, so I wasn’t. I never became the person they said I was until I started thinking, talking and acting like I was. Think it, say it and be it works either way. If you do it in a negative direction that is what you become. A negative person cannot see the positive side. The devil is not worried about you. He’s gotcha right where he wantscha. What does he have to worry about? He gets worried when you start thinking, saying and becoming what the Lord purposed you to be. He then knows you have him right where you want him in your life. I am the opposite of the kind of person I used to be. I know I am who the Lord says I am, and I know I can do what He says I can do. I do not just think that way and talk that way I act that way. I did not realize my dream of becoming a minister 40 years ago. I let what I thought about myself limit what the Lord could do with me. To limit yourself is to limit God. I read a quotation somewhere that says: “Focus on your limitations and sure enough they are yours." Focus means to image or visualize the outcome before it happens. Expect failure and sure enough you are going to get it. Why? Because you are thinking like it, talking like it and therefore, acting like it. The only way you become a failure is by quitting. When I came back to the Lord, I felt like a failure. The Lord had a plan for my life, and I missed it. The Lord said: ““quit feeling like a failure. The things I put in you to fulfill my purpose are still in you. You still have the tools and abilities to become that person.” I messed up so what? I still have it so now the devil is going to get it. A failure that lasted almost 50 years is not going to stop me. I am what the Lord says I am. I can do what He said I could do. Therefore, I will and nothing will stop me. I know the devil will try. I know because that is the way he is. I will use what he brings against me to get me where the Lord is taking me. He will have to deal with it because that is the way I am. I see myself as the positive encouraging person I was taught to be. When you put positive encouraging words in someone’s life, they have no expiration date. They are just as powerful today as the day they were spoken. It does not matter how long you have doubted the encouragement. When you start acting on it therein lies the power.