Taking back your thought life | Begin again with Kymberly Janelle Podcast Show Notes

I spent over a decade convinced I wasn’t enough. Maybe you can relate? I wasn’t enough for the fashion industry, for the men who broke up with me or never chose me, for the friends who left …the list goes on. I didn’t realize that it all boiled down to what I thought of myself, and how much I allowed others opinions of me to have power/authority in my life.

It wasn’t until I let go of trying to be what anyone wanted of me, myself included and focused on what God’s word said about me that I found out I was more than enough. But not for the reasons I had tried to prove. My ways to get through life hadn’t worked the past decade so I realized I was going to have to try something new. Something that probably didn’t make sense to me, but I knew in order to get somewhere I had never been (thought life, and physically) I was going to have to start try doing life differently. Something in me wanted and had to believe for more. I knew there was more available because I watched others fully alive, fully living. Unashamed, unafraid to simply be themselves. Not to prove a point, not for fame. They simply dared to be who God called them to be. I wasn’t sure I could believe it, but I had to start to let in the truth.

So I slowly began trading every word I had believed about myself that didn’t line up to what He said whether I could believe it for myself or not and declared that as my truth. I read scripture not just to read it but to declare it over my life. Declare it over my heart, declare it over my life. Sure the past ten years seemed to cycle through the same old life but something in me believed that there was something more. That I could believe for greater in my life.

And then I was able to do the same for others. when negative thoughts popped in my head about someone that passed by me on the street, or that I was in conversation with I was able to say NO. Thats not who you God say they are. I refuse to align with the lies that have tried to say thats who they are. I began realizing that the “random” negative thoughts that would pop up when I saw certain people were more than likely the very battle they were fighting and I was being given an opportunity to partner with the Lord to declare truth over them. He was in fact giving me spiritual insight and authority to speak life and truth over their life. That right there is what we call partnering with the Lord. It is something we can all do everyday.

You will only love others as much as you love yourself. To go a step further you will only allow others to love you as much as you love yourself. If you don’t have a fully accepted and loved view of yourself you will not allow people past what you believe to be true.