"For I can do everything through Christ, who gives me strength."
(Philippians 4:13)
About 17 years ago I was going through a rather difficult period in my life and seemed to continually be very hard on myself. I didn't want to feel the way I did, but just couldn't seem to stop myself. One day I talked to my sister Kelly about it and what she shared with me truly changed my life from that day forward.
She said, "Rebecca I think you need to ask God to do for you what you can't." Being a recovered alcoholic, this was not a concept that was new to me. I went home and thought about what it was exactly that I most needed from God and prayed:
"Lord I pray that You would enable me to see myself as You see me...To love myself as You love me...and to be the person You made me to be. I ask that You would let me see with Your eyes, hear with Your ears and love with Your heart today. - Amen"
I began praying this prayer everyday and before long had a major change in perspective of both how I was living and my worth - ultimately leading my life to go in a direction I never would have believed. From that day until this, anytime those old tapes play, I use the same prayer and in God's gracious faithfulness, He is always there.
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