Messed Up Mindset

Zephaniah 3:17
For the Lord your God is living among you.
    He is a mighty savior.He will take delight in you with gladness.    With his love, he will calm all your fears.^[a]    He will rejoice over you with joyful songs.”
John 15:9



"There is power in the name of Jesus to break every chain, to break every chain, to break every chain, break every chain, break every chain.There's an army rising up. There's an army rising up to break every chain,to break every chain." -Break Every Chain by Jesus Culture


Yesterday I was just thinking about what I used to do to win the approval of different people. How I would change what I was so that maybe they would like me more. It's so wrong. My mindset was all wrong. Hm. It was all like maybe if I get higher grades they will love me more. Maybe if I join this club they will notice. Maybe if I change this it'll bring a smile to his or her face. On another note there was this mindset aww man I messed up now he or she won't accept me. Oh man I did this now he or she will do this. It goes on and on. 


Anyway, God continues to bring things to my mind. A revelation you may call it or revelations. He continues to speak to me. What he said was this, I delight in you. Well that was basically the thought you know? I remembered the verse above. The Lord delights in you. The Lord delights in me. In whatever I do he delights in me. Want to know the amazing thing about this? When I mess up, he delights in me. 


So this brings me to the point of this short blog. I don't need to change or do certain things to make people like me more, to win their approval, to make them love me more, because the Lord delights in me. He thinks that Rhia at this very second is wonderful. He delights in me and he loves me no matter what. He delights in you too and no matter what he WILL always love you. 

New Living Translation (NLT)

⁹ “I have loved you even as the Father has loved me. Remain in my love.

Come and See What the Lord has Done to Me!

1 Thessalonians 5:16-18
New Living Translation (NLT)
16 Always be joyful. 17 Never stop praying. 18 Be thankful in all circumstances, for this is God’s will for you who belong to Christ Jesus.

This is my desire to honor you Lord with all my heart I'll worship you. All I have within me I give you praise.All that I adore is in you. Lord I give you my heart I give you my soul I live for you alone every breath that I take every moment I'm awake Lord have your way in me. -I Give You My Heart by Hillsong 


I just recently learned that hurt people only hurt people. Hurt people only hurt people. It's something that keeps playing in my head for some reason. Anyway this past weekend I was at church for our Encounter God Retreat. Boy did we encounter God. We surrendered so many things we've been holding onto inside. It was really a healing and releasing experience. The Holy Spirit fell down on all of us and people fell to their knees in humility before God and cried out praying and praying for the people they've wronged and the people who have wronged them. It was an amazing experience. 


Not forgiving is a sin. Not forgiving is a sin just like all the others. I ask myself, Rhia why do you let  these wrongs from the past hurt you? Why do you hold onto them? You know for a fact that the only person who is hurting by you holding a grudge is yourself. The only way you can be joyful is to surrender the hurts nail them to the cross and accept the healing God has to offer. What takes you so long to forgive? Really why do I take so long to absolutely forget the wrong that someone did to me no matter how painful when God never hesitates to forgive me? He never ever hesitates to forgive me. When Jesus died on that cross he took on all my bad and all the bad of the world on him and transferred his good into us so that we would be forgiven. Why would I hold that gift back from someone else?

I was glad that I went to the encounter I let go of ALL the things that have held me down. I released all the junk that was held in my heart. I surrendered all of that stuff at the cross for by his stripes we are healed. I am healed and restored. Now the Holy Spirit can move freely through my heart. Each time a memory pops up about something bad that happened to me I'll kick it out. I hope that just as God wipes my slate clean and forgets all the wrong I have done in this life I will do the same for all other people.

Forget forget forget the wrongs as easily as names slip from short termed memory minds. Then you can live freely from those self inflicted moments of torture to your achy breaky heart and forgive. Surrender it all. God wants the best for you. By the stripes of Jesus we were healed once and for all so you no longer have to hurt anymore. Now walk in freedom, because hurt people only hurt people.

Isaiah 53:5
But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are healed.

"To Bash the Creation is to Bash the Creator"

Psalm 60:12
New Living Translation (NLT)
12 With God’s help we will do mighty things,
    for he will trample down our foes.

All i need is You Lord. All i need is you! i want YOU. i choose YOU. All i need is YOU Lord is you Lord is you Lord. All i need by Kim Walker


foe/fō/
Noun:
An enemy or opponent.
Synonyms:
enemy - adversary - opponent - antagonist



Hi my name is Rhia Jimenez, I just turned 18 on Monday and it's Wednesday now so that's like three days of being 18. Anyway I am 18 years young and I have so many insecurities. Insecurities that have been with me since I was super little. I have been called fat a lot; in fact if I could have half a penny for all the times people have called me fat I would be swimming in money right now. I'd be rich on their criticisms. So yeah I always thought that because I wasn't skinny I wasn't beautiful. I was not confident with the way I looked. I was not content. I had this mindset that maybe if I lost weight I would be beautiful. So I tried to cut down on what I ate, sometimes though not on purpose I would go a long time without eating, I would join sports all to shut the voices out. The voices calling me fat or haha the voices that weren't so direct when they said WOW! Rhia you lost a lot of weight. Still means the same thing, I'm just saying.

Insecurites...You know the devil's goal is to take your weakness and mess with it in hopes that he'll break you. So he filled he fills my mind with lies saying I'm not enough. Not pretty enough. Not tall enough. Voice is too high. Not smart enough. Too hard. You'll never amount up to anything.

Insecurities are my foes and oh boy will they be defeated. They will be defeated by God. They will no longer be this ringing annoyance in my ear this cutting pain in my mind. They will be gone forever. For, I Rhia Jimenez will no longer stand passive. I am a Child of God and a Warrior and I will be more than a conqueror in this battle for it has already been won. The victory is the Lord's.

God says that I am loved so incredibly loved with this love that is so vast, long, high, and wide. I am made in the image of God; therefore, I am beautiful. I am made more and more complete and more and more secure through Jesus. I may be imperfection incarnate, but I am being made more perfect each second of each day by God's grace. I will walk in confidence not in myself, but my Heavenly Father.

Each day I'm going to learn how to love myself all the more. I don't want to hate on myself anymore just because society has a twisted opinion of beauty, after all "to bash the creation is to bash the creator."

Ephesians 3:18

New Living Translation (NLT)

¹⁸ And may you have the power to understand, as all God’s people should, how wide, how long, how high, and how deep his love is.