Who Will Win the War Within?
If I continued to believe the negative words that were spoken into my life, I would be dead and gone. You see, sometimes we allow our past and those who are no longer apart of our present to maintain power and control over our lives. I know this situation all to well. But there came a time in my life where I had to challenge those negative thoughts that took root within me. I had to make an honest effort to war against the tyranny that I allowed to rage within my mind. I knew deep within that if I did not fight, the brokenness inside would continue to damage and destroy the essence of my soul. I began to challenge those thoughts by pressing into my heart that my mistakes and the wrongs done against me do not define my core self. I turned my attention to the thoughts that God had for me. I began to engage myself, something that I was not accustomed to doing because my focus was always geared toward what other people wanted and expected of me. ...