AUTHOR: LAURIE PINKINS
TAKE BACK YOUR Heart
Overcome low self-esteem by allowing the love of GOD to rebuild your heart
Do you feel like you are not loved? Broken hearted due to past disappointments or pain? Wonder if you are worthy to be loved? You may have low self-esteem. This article will discuss how to rebuild your heart with the love of GOD.
“The LORD is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit.” Psalm 34:18 KJV
GOD loves you. GOD is love. Comprehending the love of GOD goes beyond our human comprehension. HIS plans are to prosper you and to give you an expected end. GOD is not a man that HE should lie. Neither is HE the son of man that HE should repent. HIS love will never fail you. There is nothing that can separate you from HIS love. Allowing the love of GOD to overtake your life will allow your heart to be rebuilt in HIS strength.
Your Feelings will Deceive You
When you experience heartbreak or pain you will have overwhelming feelings. These feelings will keep you trapped mentally. You will continue to repeat the same memories of the experience in an attempt to gain clarity. However, the desire for clarity will lead to feelings of guilt, shame, regret, revenge, bitterness, and unforgiveness. This is not a good state of mind to remain in.
“Casting all your care upon HIM; for HE careth for you.”
1 Peter 5:7 KJV
Your feelings are real because you think of them. But that does not mean they are valid. Feelings are defined as being an emotional state, reaction, or belief. Feelings are experienced consciously. It is a mental perception. The more you focus on a particular feeling it develops into an emotion. As a result, emotions are your determined state of mind derived from your circumstances and feelings.
You have the power to take back your heart from overwhelming feelings of heartbreak and pain. This is accomplished by evaluating the source of your feelings. Then changing the emotional response to those feelings.
Start with recognizing when you experience certain feelings. Identify them by name. Then, pray and ask HOLY SPIRIT to give you clarity on why you are having this particular feeling. Don’t be so quick to immediately validate the feeling with an emotional response. Be patient and allow GOD to reveal to you the true source of the feeling.
EVALUATE YOUR FEELINGS
NOTICE YOUR FEELINGS
Become aware when you are triggered in certain environments or events.
NAME YOuR FEELINGS
Identify what you are perceiving in the moment and how your body is responding.
learn new responses
Every feeling does not deserve a response. Establish self-care methods to deal with your feelings with healthy responses.
pray for clarity
Be patient and allow GOD to reveal to you the true source of your feelings.
Do it Even When You Don't Feel Like it
Holding on to feelings can be tricky because they seem to be valid. You hold on to feelings because they are personal. You ask yourself how can anyone else understand what I am feeling? They must be valid due to them existing in your thoughts. When you try to respond differently, your body will resist the change. In order to learn new healthy responses to your feelings you will have to intentionally practice them on a consistent basis.
Your brain is designed to protect itself by remembering the same patterns and habits. This can be a good and bad thing. For example, memorizing the route to work is positive. However, responding aggressively to traffic jams is negative. The same applies to allowing certain feelings to turn into emotions, i.e, a state of mind. In order to learn new responses, first you will have to identify the outcomes you would like to achieve. How do you want your life to look? How would you like your relationships to function? How do you want to feel on a daily basis?
Next, find a mentor or life coach you would like to mirror. This is not mimicking or becoming a counterfeit version of them. The goal is to restructure your environment so you are surrounded by healthy individuals who you can mirror their healthy and positive lifestyles. The process of evaluation for finding the correct mentor or life coach can be strenuous. Pray to GOD for clarity and direction. Allow HIM to lead you to the new healthy environments that will be conducive to your personal development and growth in HIM. Learning new responses will seem contrary to what you feel. But do it anyway, even when you don’t feel like it. Eventually, you will realize you are no longer responding from a place of being heartbroken. But your heart will be healed in GOD and your internal and external life will be a reflection of GOD’s love.
HEART AFFIRMATIONS
I AM LOVED
I AM kind
I AM caring
I AM friendly
I AM forgiving
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Be patient and allow GOD to reveal to you the true source of your feelings.
Pair your daily affirmations with scriptures of the Bible.
Rebuild Your Heart in GOD
GOD desires for your heart to be healed through HIM. Establish full-proof methods of self-care to help you deal with overwhelming feelings. These methods include spending quality time with GOD daily. Praying, fasting, meditation, reading, studying, speaking the scriptures of the Bible, and worshiping are some ways you can spend quality time with GOD. HE desires to build a relationship with you, not just based upon when you are brokenhearted. Developing a closer relationship with GOD will actually help to reduce your experiences of heartbreak. This is not to insinuate that life will never cause you pain. However, the impact of disappointments or changes in plans will be less negative. You will be able to respond from a place of love in GOD, knowing HIS plans are to prosper you and give you an expected end. Even though circumstances may be less than favorable at a given time, you will know that all things work together for the good of those who love the LORD and are called according to HIS purpose. Spending quality time with GOD will allow for your heart to be rebuilt in the strength of HIS love.
Scriptures for Your Heart
“Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;.” 2 Corinthians 2:5 KJV
The healing process to overcome low self-esteem is possible with GOD. There is power in speaking and meditating on the scriptures of the Bible daily. Read, speak, and meditate on the scriptures to rebuild your heart in GOD.
Next Steps
Find support from a therapist, life coach, trusted friend, or support group that can help you work through the feelings of low self-esteem.
Use these steps to overcome the thoughts of low self-esteem and rebuild your heart in GOD.
- Allow the love of GOD to overtake your heart
- Evaluate your feelings
- Find a life coach or mentor
- Spending quality time with GOD daily
- Meditate on scriptures for your heart
Read, speak and meditate on the scriptures of the Bible for your heart.
Proverbs 3:26 “For the LORD shall be thy confidence, and shall keep thy foot from being taken”
Proverbs 14:26 “In the fear of the LORD is strong confidence: and HIS children shall have a place of refuge.”
Isaiah 30:15 “For thus saith the LORD GOD, the Holy One of Israel; In returning and rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength: and ye would not.”
Ezekiel 28:26 “And they shall dwell safely therein, and shall build houses, and plant vineyards; yea, they shall dwell with confidence, when I have executed judgments upon all those that despise them round about them; and they shall know that I am the LORD their GOD.”
Ephesians 3:12 “In whom we have boldness and access with confidence by the faith of HIM.”
2 Thessalonians 3:4 “And we have confidence in the LORD touching you, that ye both do and will do the things which we command you.”
Hebrews 10:35 “Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward.”
1 John 5:14 “And this is the confidence that we have in HIM, that, if we ask any thing according to HIS will, HE heareth us:.”
Psalm 4:5 “Offer the sacrifices of righteousness, and put your trust in the LORD.”
Psalm 5:11 “But let all those that put their trust in Thee rejoice: let them ever shout for joy, because thou defendest them: let them also that love Thy name be joyful in Thee.”
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1 Corinthians 12:9 KJV
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