Did you know that there is a target right over your weakest spot?

Well, let’s back up.

Do you face any kick back when you are forging forward in your life? Some days do you hear and or feel a negative voice coming at you almost faster than you can recognize and deal with it?

I believe that we must learn to banish that voice.

It’s aim is to clutter our path, trip us up, steal our joy and victimize us if we will allow ourselves to be victims. But it is by divine design that it is allowed to be present- so that we have something to push against! We must have choices! {What voice will we attend? That of grace and light and beauty or the voice of despair and despondency?} The plan is for us to be able to strengthen our spiritual muscles and learn what it is we truly desire! To gain experience and self-knowledge. To assert our desires into the world to shape our thoughts, our behavior, our decisions and ultimately our joy!

How many hours a day are you feeling blah? Unmotivated or unloved or invalidated? What does that add up to in a week or a month or a year? Those minutes and hours do accumulate and take their toll don’t they? They leave us with feelings of wasted time and wasted opportunities, wondering why we sucked into that subtle trap again!?

Yes, we need the choice, but we need to understand what we are choosing! The key to making progress is knowing before the thoughts come and the arrows fly what we will do to defend ourselves! We also need to know that we will be hit over and over in our weakest spots.

So look for the patterns. You think that people don’t show you enough respect? That crummy voice will remind you of that when someone looks at you cross-eyed. You believe that you are unlovable or irresponsible or unattractive or unworthy in some way? You will be shown “evidence” that what you believe is true every time.

We must banish that ugly dark voice, and fortify our weak spots! Make them our places of strength! Build a fortress around them, build up the earth around them, put high scaffolding around them and disarm the enemy!

If you would like to employ this strategy here are some thoughts on the steps you might take:

1 Identify your weak places– this doesn’t mean to go into the depths and think you are without hope and launch into a self-pity escape! No! It only means to acknowledge to God where your wounds are hidden. {If you don’t know what your weak places are, just think back to the last time you were offended by someone or had your feelings hurt in some way…then think backward before that to how you were feeling about yourself, and what beliefs you hold behind those feelings.}

2 Ask for His help– there is nothing I would love more than to have my children ask for my assistance when they need my encouragement and love! Our Father’s love knows no bounds and will come to our aid the moment we ask for His help and influence and strength to accompany us.

3 Make a list so that you can turn it around– if I know that I am often angry or on edge about feeling unheard, I can turn that around in a declaration that says, “My voice is heard and my children and others respect my opinions and ideas.” {Yes, you have to change your belief before others will get it!}

4 Flip each of your negative thinking “beliefs” into positive, truthful statements– from,”They don’t care” to “My family loves me!” or from, “I might as well be invisible” to “I am precious and irreplaceable!”

5 Strengthen your spiritual muscles by practicing your declarations until they come to your mind automatically, without having to consciously bring them forward. At that point, I promise they will come to you when you need them. They will change your beliefs about yourself, then they will change the thought waves or energy that you send out to others and ultimately they will change your life by changing your relationships!

This is one way to take charge of your life, to act and not be acted upon, to surround problems and defeat the enemy.

And this is exactly why we are Lionesses! We are powerful and our Lioness voice is needed! But as women, we need to “roar” at the right things! Not at ourselves in degrading ways, not at our men in demeaning or disrespectful ways, not at our children who are wanting and needing our leadership, but at the enemy by taking responsibility for our problems, acknowledging our weaknesses and most importantly, asking God to assist us by strengthening us with truth at our core.

It’s a fight we can win, with boldness and sobriety, and with His benevolent aid!

Godspeed you to your best self and your best life!

Love,

Jacque