Emotionally Driven

Good evening everyone :) I'm very much addressing the women with this post, but you men may very well be empowered by it as well.

How is it that we as women can have an issue for 18 years and not ever really address it? I'm talking about an open wound, an emptiness, a lack within ourselves. We deal with so many emotional pains in our lives and I'm wondering to what degree do we allow healing? Have you ever been hurt by someone or something and when you get the courage to talk about it or share it with someone close to you, you're shut up; either by someone's words or by their obvious body language? We women are emotional beings. It's true. We hear with our emotions, we respond with our emotions, we deal with life through our emotions. I've had to tell myself on many occasions in my life to stop being emotional, to think with my head instead of my heart.

This is what I want to speak into you today: allow God to heal you. Seek direction from Him about your healing and He is sure to lead you.

I believe many of you who are reading this right now know exactly what healing needs to take place in your life. I believe there are those of you who have repressed and suppressed for so many years that you don't even realize that who you are today is a reflection of the pain within you. We become angry because of our pain. We become bitter, hateful and ugly because of the pain in our lives that we have never dealt with. Our family members hurt us, our husbands, our friends. Sometimes intentionally, but most of the time unintentionally. But the hurt is the same. We tend to define ourselves by our emotions, by our feelings, or by who has and who hasn't loved us. We place value upon ourselves based on how we've been treated rather than what God's word says about us.

Do you know that it takes 50 positives to cancel out or destroy one negative? It's true. That's why it's so difficult to overcome those painful words and actions brought on us by others. But let me encourage you today to encourage yourself. If others aren't speaking those 50 positives into you. Then do it yourself!!! Do you need some help? Ok, repeat after me.

Say this:

I am an incredible woman.

I am fearfully and wonderfully made.

I am created for greatness.

I am beautiful.

I have gifts and purpose for which I was created.

I have power and authority given to me by Jesus Himself.

I am a child of the Most High God; a daughter of the King, a princess.

I matter. My thoughts matter. My emotions matter.

I deserve to be whole and healed in Jesus name.

I have the right to grow and to go.

I have the power to become all God has created me to be.

WOW. That feels great! And guess what? It's true. Say that a few times a day and you're sure to begin living it.

Be blessed. Be healed!!!