ORACLES: Lesson 11

Don’t ever second-guess yourself.

When you were a toddler you had curiosity that made you pursue everything, you had confidence to try anything, and you had a clean conscience that enabled you to dream without pause. There were no limits or second-guessing of self and others, only endless possibilities. It’s the way you were wired because God is not withholding good from His children. (Psalm 84:11)

And while God has good in mind for you, the devil has completely different thoughts regarding you. He is your enemy and his desire is to kill, steal and destroy (John 10:10) you; so he interrupts and diverts possibilities by using various tactics that undermine your purpose, plans, productivity and varying pursuits. Some tactics are overt and obvious like child abuse, loss, and traumatic events, etc., but others are subversive. They are simple thoughts that question your ability or your value. They are thoughts that make you quit before you get started.

Who you believe, God or the devil, will determine whether possibilities are realized or ruined. Too often, the older you get the more likely you are to second-guess yourself than you are to believe. Second-guessing interrupts your goals or clear intentions before you realize that you’ve given heed to it. It’s so stealth that you end up debating your potential altogether.

Second-guessing yourself may have come from hearing authority figures constant chiding. Maybe they were so dominating that you couldn’t trust your own decisions. Its genesis may have come from the rejection of peers, or maybe you unconsciously compared yourself to others and/or experienced some level of humiliation or shame in your past. Regardless of how you began second-guessing yourself, you can change.

Whenever you realize that you’ve talked yourself out of a good/God thing, remember, your Heavenly Father has commanded the blessing on the work of your hands, He’s empowered you to prosper, and He’s deemed you an overcomer in life. Even more, He’s with you.

Then, talk yourself into a big ego! Tell yourself, “everything I touch turns to gold”; “I am the best person for the job’’; “I am not inept, I am the best at what I do”; “God has made me smart enough, savvy enough, quick enough and strong enough”. Tell yourself the right thing before you hear and heed the wrong things.

Finally, pursue your interest, your opportunity, or your dream! You’ll never reach the top of a mountain if you don’t start climbing. You’ll never score if you don’t shoot. You’ll never reach goals if you never start; and, you’ll never live your dream if you don’t see yourself having the dream.

You can do all things through Christ who strengthens you. Retrain your mindset to believe it, just like a child.