From Victim to Victor



One day I woke and began to think over my life. I thought about all the hurt that I endured through the past years. I wondered why I allowed myself to be a victim of emotional abuse. For so many years I thought things would change, but eventually the abuse and rejection came back again and again. I believe that if I stayed there time would change my outcome. I began to feel like I was worthless, not wanted, rejection began to set in and depression.

Well what changed how I began think and look at myself was pne phone call. I received a call from someone I hold dear to my heart. She told me she had a dream about me and in the dream she described everything I was actually going through. Her last words she told me was “ God said you were going to come out of this alright”
From that very moment God allowed me to realize to be no more a Victim but to be a Victor. God instructed me to stop seeing myself as a victim and began to speak positive to my situation. No More Victim!
I had to make the choice to allow a change. The choice was up to me to arise from Victim to Victor and from Prey to Pray. It's your decision, you decide!

Behind the Smile

As we go about on our daily journey, we may notice the seemly smile on people faces. They look happy on the outside but what is really going on in the inside. There are some people that are really hurting deep within and feel like what is the use to continue on. Their smile is just a cover up to camouflage the pain they feel. Each day is a struggle. Each day they hope that someone will notice that they are suffering, depressed, empty, and unhappy. They are waiting to be free from the pain. Yet when they see you, they try and bear a smile like nothing is wrong.

Behind the smile is a child that have been abused, a person that feel worthless, someone who is about to be evicted out of their home. Behind the smile is a young man waiting and wanting to be accepted by his father...lonely. Behind the smile is a mother that can not find resources to feed her small little children. Yet they try to put on a smile so that others will think everything is all right. Satan has a way of making them feel like no one care. Behind the smile was a person thinking about committing suicide. When we see that smile on their face, look into there eyes and see their pain. Pray for them, even if you don't know them.

Even right now there is someone out there that have a story behind the smile. Let take the time right now and say a word of prayer for someone that has painful secret behind their smile.

Prayer

All Mighty God, and most merciful Father,

we pray that your hand of protection and comfort

be upon those that are hurting on today.

Help us to not just to pray for ourselves

but daily pray for other.

All Mighty God, look past their smile

and heal every hurt and pain. Amen

Psalm 116:1-2

New Living Translation 

I love the Lord because he hears my voice and my prayer for mercy. 2. Because he bends down to listen, I will pray as long as I have breath!

Life is too short...

“Life is too short to waste any amount of time on wondering what other people think about you. In the first place, if they had better things going on in their lives, they wouldn't have the time to sit around and talk about you. What's important to me is not others' opinions of me, but what's important to me is my opinion of myself.” - C. C.JoyBell C

Low Self-Esteem

Low self esteem is lack of confidence and satisfaction in oneself. We must change the way that we think about ourselves. Every action has a reaction to it. Many times we allow what others say about us on the outside to have a great impact on how we feel on the inside. Sometimes we feel so low on the inside because of the circumstances that we face daily . This could include but limited to divorce, separation, break-ups, loneliness, past rejections, feeling of being unwanted, scars, deformities, disabilities, imperfections, overweight, depression and the list goes on.

You are beautiful and wonderfully made. First love yourself! Make changes in your life to better you. Get rid of that “Stinking Thinking.” The biggest battle within us is the battle of the mind. We must raise the level of our thinking. Inner beauty should be the most important part of improving one's self. You are not alone. There is someone else out there feeling the same why you do. God made you unique and different. Let your light shine through. Someone need to see it.

"By being yourself, you put something wonderful in the world that was not there before." ~Edwin Elliot