Believing Truth

What you do, what you have done, what has happened, what just happened
DOES. NOT. DEFINE.

• Who you are.
• Who you will be.
• What you do tomorrow.
• What will happen tomorrow.

The biggest lie you can believe is that your habits from yesterday will forever carry on into tomorrow.
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Lie:

Your failures from yesterday determine your worth.
What it sounds like:
“You failed, that means you’re a failure, doomed to repeat it again.”
How it affects you if you believe it:

• Condemnation. “I’m such a failure”.
• Self-loathing. “I suck, I never do it right”
• Worthlessness. “I’ll never amount to anything”
• Building a case against yourself. “I’ve failed so many times, I’ll never be able to change”
• Fear of man. “I can’t be real with people because I’m scared they’ll see who I really am and think less of me.”
• Apathy. “Well if I suck at everything, no one approves of me, and I keep screwing up, I might as well not apply myself or try anything new, it’s waste of my effort”
• Depression. “Life sucks. Everything is pointless.”

All of those are symptoms of believing the lie that you are the sum of your mistakes/failures, or that your “yesterday” will determine your “tomorrow.”
Truth:
You failed, but that doesn’t determine who you are, nor does it reflect upon your worth.
How it affects you if you believe it:

• Potential “there’s no limit to how high I can go” 
• Hope “I’m excited to see things change”
• Confidence “I’m no less of a person because of failure”
• Growth “I’ll get better and better, there’s room for growth everywhere”
• Maturity “now I know what not to do, the past is gone, you live you learn “
• Initiative “I’m gonna change how I do things, I’m going to seize opportunities”

Some people get so caught up in their past, fearful that it will determine their future that they never live in the present.
You are not the summation of your past. Circumstance and people do not define you. Your preferences and the ‘feelings’ you have don’t define you.

Your Father has defined you, esteemed you, and to live from that opinion is what it means to have an “audience of one.”

The easiest way to stay free from lies is to be grounded, be unshakable, be fully convinced, to believe what is True.