We can make a determination to think and speak the truth about ourselves. We can live out the truth – by saying what God says about you and believing it! Instead of believing what we used to believe was the truth about ourselves, we can make living in God’s truth a lifestyle that not only changes our thought life, but changes what we say. We have listened to the alternate reality for way to long. There may have been a fraction of truth in what we have believed, but often we take it to the nth degree. We blow it way out of proportion, or to the worst end of the extreme. So what does the Word says about you – who are you really? Which truth will you believe? Is what you have believed – the truth, or is it a lie masquerading as the truth? Sometimes it can be hard to distinguish, especially if you have believed something about yourself for so long. Now is the time to change your label. If the label on your life said ugly, stupid, loser, or whatever, God has a different label for you! It is time for you to be labeled with the truth! The greatest illustration I can think of regarding changing your label is when Jesus says, Let the weak say….I am strong, Let the poor say…..I am rich, Let the sick say…..I am healed. The reality is I feel weak, I feel poor, or I feel sick. But Jesus says that what you feel isn’t as powerful as what the truth is about your situation! Even if you feel weak, God says I will give you strength. So I can say, God is strengthening me, and I AM STRONG. Even if you feel poor, God says I have given you all things, so I am blessed beyond measure, and I am rich. If I feel sick, Jesus paid the price for our healing on the cross, by His stripes we are healed, so I can say, my body is receiving the healing of the Lord, and I am healed. That is the kind of truth we can speak to ourselves that calls those things which be not, as though they were, so circumstances and even emotions and thoughts, and then our words and actions can change. That is encouraging!
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