Woman of God

Psalm 139:13–18 NIV84

13 For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. 14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. 15 My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, 16 your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be. 17 How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them! 18 Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand. When I awake, I am still with you.

1. Speak good things about yourself

God wants you to start believing today that you are a rare, one-of-a-kind, valuable and precious woman.

To help you learn how to be successful at being yourself, I want to give you some easy-to-follow suggestions:

Declare what God’s Word says about you. For example, say to yourself:

I am the righteousness of God in Christ. I am made acceptable in the Beloved. God loves me, and He formed me with His own hand...and God doesn’t make mistakes!

2. After God made you, He broke the mold

God made you authentic

Avoid comparing yourself with other women

God must love variety, or all of us wouldn’t look so different. He has created each of us differently right down to our fingertips

We can look to certain people as good examples to follow, but even then, good traits, if duplicated, will manifest differently through our individual personalities

3. Do not allow criticism to derail you

Learn to cope with criticism

If you dare to be different, you’ll have to expect some criticism. However, you won’t be comfortable in your own skin if you go against your own convictions

Going along with the crowd when you know in your heart that God is leading you in a different direction is one of the reasons women don’t succeed at being themselves

You are a woman who is perfected and complete in Him

When you start to believe that, you will no longer feel you are lacking anything or that there is anything wrong with you.

Remember this: God will never anoint you to be anyone other than yourself

Let now be your time to go forward and be set free from the torments of comparing yourself with others and trying to be someone you’re not

God is proud of who He made you to be

4. Women of God focus on potential

Focus on your potential instead of your limitations

Refuse to concentrate on your weaknesses except in an effort to turn them into strengths

Keep your flaws in perspective

Negative thinking is bad for you

Positive thinking can help

Sometimes it turns into wishful thinking

Sometimes you tend to ignore reality

Sometimes it focuses only on good things

Sometimes good things don’t encourage you

Neutral thinking will equip you to reach your potential

Neutral thinkers remain aware of the situation as it changes from moment to moment

They learn from every situation

The next behavior remains in one’s control

Stay in the moment

Give each moment its own history

They remove emotion and replace it with behavior

The past is the past

Don’t let it define you

People with a high level of confidence have just as many weaknesses as those without confidence

but they focus on their strengths instead of their weaknesses.