Day 8: The Way I Talk To Myself

Lord Jesus, what do You want to say to me about the way You love Yourself and the way You want me to love myself?

I am speaking to you through the quote you read in And David Perceived He Was King, by Dale Mast:

At the very core of any destiny shift, there must be an identity shift. The way we see ourselves is crucial to our destiny. We can’t see ourselves correctly until the Father speaks to us. It takes a father to reveal a son. He will also reveal to us things that we can no longer speak about ourselves so that we can shift into our future with Him. God knows that what we think and say about ourselves is so central to His call on our lives. Until we speak what He has spoken about us, we will not impact the earth with heaven… The new starts with what we say about ourselves. God is preparing a new season for us by changing the way we speak about ourselves. Our words create our identity.

Daughter, I have had to convict you about this SO many times. So many of the times I have convicted you to repent in the past month, season, and year have been about what you are and are not allowed to say about yourself. Keep cooperating with Me about this. This quote explains why it is SO important that you listen and obey Me in this area.

I’m not being picky. Life and death are in the power of the tongue (Proverbs 18:21)–and you affect yourself just as much by what you “speak” to yourself in your own mind. No one else may hear, but you hear and I hear. I will always be listening and caring about whether or not you are speaking to yourself in an obedient way.

Few things matter more to Me than what you say to yourself in your heart, because your heart contains the wellspring of life that all the other things flow out of (Proverbs 4:23). It is in the fool’s heart that he says there is no God–he might be saying all kinds of nice things about Me on the outside.

You must never believe the lie that sin in this area is small or OK–it is the most deadly of all. Nobody ever committed a big external sin like adultery and murder who didn’t first start speaking untrue and/or unkind things to themselves in their hearts. And most of those things weren’t, “You’re so great, you deserve this,” but rather, “You’re such worthless trash, nothing can numb the pain, maybe you should try sleeping with that woman and see if that helps.”

People who live with constant abuse do all kinds of things to respond or try to escape, and so many of the people you see “acting out” are living with constant abuse from themselves. Nobody else sees, but it makes them behave in the same way. I do NOT want you to be one of them.

I love you so much that I will discipline you if you abuse yourself to make you stop–or if you tell her anything I told you not to. Or if you contradict Me to yourself at all. I love Elizabeth; she shouldn’t have to sit there listening to you say her Father is a liar. She may get plenty of that from other people someday. I want you to always be on My side in what we tell her. I need to be able to trust you in this. For as long as you are opposing Me, telling yourself things that are different than what I say, you will be weakening yourself and My work in your life.