One day I decided to begin to live out loud! I decided that it was time to stop living behind the curtain of my insecurities and allow my voice to be heard. I decided that it was time to live a life uncovered from the shame of my past, to stop allowing people to make me feel bad about what God had already delivered me from. I decided to stop letting the voices of my prior mistakes and disappointments silence me and to use the lessons that I had learned on my way to destiny as a road map to help someone else find their way.
Trust me, it wasn't easy and definitely something that I had to grow into. I didn't find my voice until I began to seek a deeper relationship with God because I had so many surface things that were holding me back. One of the major things was fear. The enemy uses fear to try to make us keep our voice hidden. Many times we are afraid to live a bold life because of what we think others will say or feel about us. The truth is, people are privately struggling with many of the issues that you have struggled with and they need to hear your story to know that God has a plan for their lives too. They need to know that if He can deliver you from the ugliness of your past, He can do the same for them. I also had to move pass the epidemic of people pleasing. I had a deep desire to want to be accepted. What I didn't realize is that no matter what I did, I could never fully live up to people's expectations of me. Instead I had to become content with being the best ME that I could be. The only person we truly have a responsibility to please is God. We are responsible for our own personal lives and accountable only to Him. In this process, I learned to stop being so hard on myself based on other people's opinions of who I was and where I was in life. There is a quote that I hang on to that says "Success lies not in being the best but in doing your best." Does that mean we shouldn't strive to be the best? Absolutely not! It simply means that success is not always measured by who makes it to the top first, but is heavily weighted on the journey. When you know that you've given your best and done all that you know to do, you don't have anything left to offer. We may all reach our pinnacle at different times but the important thing is that you stayed the course and finished well. I also had to recognize my own worth and stop giving people the authority to make me feel less than. When we truly know our worth, we stop allowing people to sell us short. At one point in my life, I felt the need to settle for "that'll do." But no longer! I am royalty, the daughter of a King, a royal heir. I deserve the very best of what life has to offer. So with that, I began to live out loud. I stop putting limitations on myself and began to walk in my purpose. The Bible tells us that little becomes much in the hands of God. Maybe you're still working on yourself...maybe you haven't quite found your voice or realized your worth. But, I admonish you to put the little that you have in the hands of God and allow Him to stand up in your life and make you great!
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