One beautiful blessing about being a woman, among several *of course* is hearty
friendships and conversations that knit us together.
Our hearts release, when share our pains, our joys
and enjoy our victory moments. Like freeing our inner selves, we find comfort
in the solace of our friends.
When we give up sharing and encouraging each other
we allow doubt and loneliness to creep in.
It is hard going through life lonely and hard
enough when we are surrounded by people who have given up on us or should I say
have simply stopped believing that anything good will come from us.
I don’t like struggling with the annoying tug that
“no-one believes in me”.
Who does anyway?
'It is One Thing To Have Dreams Welling Up In Your Heart and a Different Thing all Together Believing That They will come True'
It is terrible to have people laugh at
those God-given dreams in your heart. And to be candid, I know how it feels too.
Are
you struggling with self doubt?
Are
you second-guessing your next move because no one aside from you believes in
your dreams?
Or
have you stopped believing in “You” because nobody does anyway?
Have you giving up paddling your boat towards your dreams?
Take heart dear friend.
You are not alone!
I recall David had this same struggle.
Bible Reading: I Samuel 30 (Click to read)
Oh yes he did too.
Here he was with a band of soldiers who had
abandoned everything to follow him in his quest. Now, raided, robbed and left
empty.
The same group of men who once believed in him,
Men who would have laid their lives down for him,
Men who left all and followed him,
These men stopped believing in him,
Put me in this same situation, I would crack!
Who was David going to turn to?
From where you are sitting, may be everyone doesn’t
believe in what God has laid in your heart, there are three important things to
do:
>>>>>Leave
that Stage of Approval-Seeking:
You have labored
long enough trying to impress others.
Do you know what will work?
Don’t
drain your energy on the platform of “Approval seeking”
Like cold chocolate melting into your mouth, allow
yourself to breathe.
If God has given you a go ahead, that is what counts.
People will always have a tough time figuring out
what God is up to, sometimes you are better off leaving out the explanation.
>>>>>>Find Your One word: A word with no meaning
attached to it, is simply a set of letters.
Until you come up with a Word that gives you the “AHA!
Feeling”, then, you are as plain as plain gets.
It is a disaster to stop believing in yourself
when people don’t believe in you!
What is the one-word that re-energises you?
What one-word revives your inner person?
May be its PASSION, GREATNESS, PERSEVERE...
whatever word that makes you tick.
>>>>>>God hasn’t given up on you: Never forget the Lord
has great plans for you.
God
has not given up on you have no right to give
up on yourself.
Life bruises us hard many times that we stop
believing that God may be has something in store for us.
Truthfully, God's plans
may not come the way we want it to,
may not seem like what we desire,
may take a while longer than we anticipate,
may not be understood right away,
But God's plans will definitely blow our minds
Now your turn: Have you been there?What do you do when no-one believes in you?
By His Great Grace,
Ifeoma Samuel
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