Sabotage
In life, you will experience many disappointments. But
the one person you cannot afford to disappoint is yourself. When everyone has
let you down, you must learn to encourage yourself. What does disappointment
look like? It looks like when people reject you, when people abandon you when
people believe you will turn out to be nothing good, when people on your job try
to sabotage your work, when your family doesn’t support you, when people who
you have help and though is your friend tells lies on you etc. Disappointment can
look different to each of us depending on how you view and see your situation.
I love to talk about my situation because it helps me heal, grow, and develop into the woman God says I am. All my life, I have
been disappointed by people. People who don’t believe in me. People who spoke negativity
into my life from childhood. People whom I have helped told lies to me. During
my school years, people (teachers) thought I would not become anything useful.
Even people in the church. But God!
I recently won an award (International Impact Book
Awards) for my first book, “It Didn’t Kill
Me (How God delivered me from the Ashes of Divorce).” And it is only by
God’s grace that I believe I won. I am grateful, not because I am special but
because God saw fit to favor me. I am a person who never knew I had a learning
disability till I adulthood, with three children and was married. But God
allowed me to win an award for just sharing a little of my life experience, and
even through the journey, the enemy had set up many roadblocks; God said he had
prepared a table before me and in the presence of your enemy (Psalm 23).
Hallelujah.
I want to encourage you today not to sabotage yourself
or allow people's negative attitudes toward you to stop you from becoming the
best version of yourself. It doesn’t matter what they think. What is more important
is what you think of yourself and God's thoughts about you. Does the things
people say and do hurt you? YES. But you have to work on healing and work out
your salvation with the Lord Jesus for yourself. I want you to know that your negative,
dysfunctional situation does not limit you from becoming a healthy version of
yourself. Look at it as just one chapter in your life book. There are many more
chapters to your book. Just rewrite it and keep moving forward.
Some
steps to help you with disappointment/sabotage:
1.
Forgive
yourself
2.
Forgive
others
3.
Repent
(if you are a Christian)
4.
Speak
positive things about your life
5.
Stop
people-pleasing
6.
Accept
yourself in good and bad times
7.
Celebrate
yourself
8.
Don’t
Sabotage yourself
9.
Be
kind to yourself
10.
Embrace
yourself
11.
Seek
help when needed
12.
It’s
okay not to be okay
13.
Enjoy
your journey
14.
Rewrite
your story
Remember my favorite phrase, “You cannot give someone what you
don’t have, and they cannot give you what they don’t have.” Let it
reignite in your spirit that healing requires you to participate actively. Be
willing not to give up yourself. Be encouraged despite the sabotage of others
or disappointment. Do not let it stop you from becoming a better version
of yourself or who God has called you to be.
Stay Bless!
This is oh so true. Keeping pushing it is well
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