Negative Self Talk | Unbroken: Healing Minds and Mending Hearts | Pastor Jocelyn Perez, Pastor Randall Duperval, Alison Berest Busching, Christy Gomez

So I just want to welcome our family today.

Today we are going to be having a family talk.

Is that okay?

Can we have a family talk today?

And so what?

How many of you were blessed by last week's sermon?

Shattered Faith or Shattered Dreams, Unshaken Faith?

I forgot the title.

And so last week I spoke about Shattered Dreams, Unshaken Faith.

And we're continuing with our series Unbroken Healing Minds and

Mending Hearts.

And so the biggest prayer that I had for all of our campuses was,

and all of our people, all of you beautiful people, that God was

able to mend your hearts.

And I shared personal tea and everybody loved it.

But just so that way you allow God to mend your heart and face some

of the things that you were faced with or are facing.

And one of the things that I saw on Monday night, Free Women Collective

Bible study, which I love.

Let's give it up for our Free Women.

Some of our New Jersey people, I think Serena, they had done the

Bible study.

And so there was something that blessed me when I watched that.

And she said, you know, it made me think and sit with, where

am I in some of the things in my life?

With the divorce of her parents.

And she's like, where am I in this?

Is there forgiveness?

Am I free from it?

And so that's about mending hearts.

That's what it's about.

And so as we continue in this series, we're having this conversation,

and it's a needed one.

And if you can title this conversation, it's negative self

talk.

How many of us in our church, in this world are dealing with negative

self talk?

And so, you know, those inner voices say, you're not good enough.

You're a failure.

Oh, you're so stupid.

How many of us even take that?

Oh, I'm so stupid and I shouldn't have done it.

And that's negative self talk.

And so what we want to do is we want to talk about how not only

is negative self talk a mental thing, it is also a spiritual thing.

And so the enemy is called the father of lies.

And he lies to us.

He whispers into our minds different lies, and then we accept

them and come into agreement with them so many times.

But Jesus came to free us in truth.

And so John 8:32 says, and you will know the truth and.

John 8:32

And the truth will set you free.

And so today it's about pulling those lies into the light

and replacing them with God's truth.

And so what God says about us, and I am here on this panel with

these amazing, talented Spirit filled mental health counselors,

teachers, whatever it is that you're doing.

And so I just want, I'm just blessed to have them here today to

be able to pour out.

And so if you can please introduce yourself and tell us your

role here at the church and also your role outside.

Hello, everyone.

My name is Randall Duberval.

Everyone watching online everywhere that you're watching.

I am the campus pastor of V1 New Jersey, alongside with my wife,

Pastor Mary.

And I'm also something that many of you may not know.

I'm also a licensed mental health counseling intern as of right

now.

And so I'm headed on that direction.

Awesome.

We love you, Pastor Randall.

I'm Alison Barris Bushing.

I'm from the Long island campus and I'm a licensed mental

health counselor in private practice on Long Island.

And currently I'm not serving in the church too much because I'm

at home serving my family.

But I'm so blessed to be here today.

So thank you.

Good morning, everyone.

I'm Christy Gomez and I'm here from Brooklyn.

Oh, yeah.

I serve as a ground crew lead for the kids ministry.

I'm a licensed marriage and family therapist.

I'm also training to biblically counsel.

And I'm a mom to two boys and a wife to one, which is one of my

favorite things.

So, yeah, and here we are.

Here we are.

Thank you so much for being here and for being willing to pour

out.

Cause we are all day club today.

We're gonna be in Manhattan tonight as well.

And so one of the things that I told them when I reached out to

them of like just being a part of this, I was like, hey, the commitment

is to do all day.

Are you committed to it?

And there was like, no doubt about it.

They were like, we're here, we're with it.

And we're just so thankful for our apostle Mike and Julie Signorelli.

Let's just give it up for them.

We're thankful for them and their hearts are just to see people

free.

And that's why our series is called Unbroken.

Because we're gonna all walk out of here unbroken Today.

There's gonna be a new thing deposited in us and we're not gonna

have negative self talk no matter what was spoken over us.

So let's pray.

Father, as we get into your word, as we get into practicals,

as we tear down lies and strongholds that are lies that we

believe to be true, Father, I pray in the name of Jesus that people

will walk out of each campus, Lord, even in Their living rooms,

that they will be set free, that we will know the truth.

And the truth is who you are, God, that the blood tears down strongholds,

that the blood covers sin, that the blood frees.

And so, Father, we thank you for the blood of Jesus that sets

us free.

We thank you for the truth that sets us free today.

In Jesus mighty name.

Then the church said, Amen.

Okay, so the first step to healing is awareness.

And how many times do you know that you're not aware?

Or people, like, come to you and be like, hey, I don't know if

you're aware of this, but your zipper's open, right?

Like, you gotta make sure that your zipper's closed.

And you have to be aware, right?

You don't know what you don't know.

And so awareness is something that we all need in our life, especially

when it's emotional and spiritual, right?

We need awareness.

And there are sometimes there are things that we don't know about

ourselves that we come to learn.

And as God reveals it to us.

And so as we go into this negative self talk, we wanna make

you aware.

And so they're gonna share about different things of things

that they've become aware of in their life.

And we're gonna talk about practicals and how we practically

do that.

And so we don't name the lie.

If we don't name the lie, we can't replace it with truth.

And so you don't heal what you can't reveal.

And so Psalm 139 says, Search me, O God, and try me and know my

thoughts and see if there be any grievous way in me and lead me

in the way of everlasting.

He says, try me.

How many of you know that?

That's a phrase that we use right now.

Try me.

He's like, God, try me.

Search my heart.

And that's what we need to be real with God and tell the truth

with God.

Of like, hey, I'm feeling this way.

Try me, God, search my heart.

And so one of the things, first questions that I want to ask

you guys, and we can pass the mic along, what does negative self

talk look like for you?

What does it sound like in your own life?

And how does it affect you emotionally and spiritually?

Am I going first?

All right, so what it looks like to me, and I've shared this

before, but when I had my second child, it was tough because

I excelled in a lot of things.

But then when it came to motherhood, it was something that

wasn't easy for me.

It wasn't something that was natural.

I actually saw my husband naturally take to fatherhood, and

I was questioning if there was something wrong with me, like, why

am I not taking to this so easily?

So it was something that I really had to work at.

But as a therapist, I've read all the books, right?

I was giving therapy to people, helping people with their

own kids.

But it was all theoretical, right?

It was all in my mind.

But when it was time for me to actually apply it, it was hard.

And then I started shaming myself, condemning myself.

And those were the lies that were creeping up to the point that

it got so toxic that I did start thinking that it was better,

that my kids were better off without me, right?

That's how deep it was and how toxic it got to the point that I

even had those intentions and those thoughts.

And I had to go through a process of deep healing for the Lord

to show me that it's not what I do that I find my identity in,

right?

Or how I show up in motherhood, that motherhood is not

something to master, but something to surrender to.

And as I learned that, I learned how to surrender to him and

give it all to him and allow him to do the healing.

And I remember even telling God, I'm like, I have a broken heart.

God, my heart is broken.

But it took all those negative thoughts to compound and to get to

that place where I was so broken that it almost harmed me and

my family long term.

So if you could give us an example.

So I'm going to do, like, a little role play.

Okay?

If you could give us what were some of the lies when you said you

were shaming yourself, right?

What were some of the shameful thoughts that you were speaking over

yourself?

And right now you can go back to that old Christy.

What would you say to her?

So some of the things that I would say is that I'm not good at

this, right?

I'm gonna harm my children, right?

I did struggle with anger.

So it was something that I'm like, what will this do to my kids

if I just continue to operate this way?

And I thought I was like, okay, if I'm not here, my mom got

them, my husband got it.

But now I can go and say, like, you know, knowing my identity

in Christ and getting closer to him, there's a gentleness that

he has shown me that now I can show my children.

So I would tell her, like, you know, just continue working, going

through that process, and, you know, God will pull you out.

Because when I got to that.

To that darkness, it was like.

I think it was like two months before I got saved.

God pulled me out.

And that peace that I felt in that instant has carried through

until this day that when things are hard in my motherhood

or even in my marriage, I can go to God.

And I say, God, just fill me with your gentleness.

And those thoughts, even if they try to creep up, like, you know,

you're failing, it's like, well, I do fall short.

So God covers me where I fail, and I remember, and I tell God.

I was like, God, just fill the gap where I can feel it.

And I know you have my children, and I know that they will

be fine, and.

And I just start declaring that and speaking that.

Amen.

Okay.

Yes, go ahead, Pastor Randall.

Just.

I just wanted to, like, even piggyback off of that.

You said something about, master what I can't master, Like,

I had to learn to surrender instead.

And I'm thinking about, like, how your whole life, it's all connected,

it's all interconnected, because just as when you didn't think

that you would be a good mother to your children, I have four

boys, for those of you that don't know.

And I'm not having any other children.

Don't ask me, where's the girl?

Leave my wife alone.

Don't ask her.

All right, but there's a moment where, with my very last son,

Asher, I thought that I was gonna have a girl.

I was like, all right, God, this is it.

You know?

You gave me three boys.

Good job.

You know, you're funny.

I get it.

I always wanted a girl.

And I remember those moments.

And I said it was to the point where when my son was about to be

born, and I said, when my wife was pregnant, I said, hey, I don't

want to know the sex.

But she wanted to.

So she went to the doctor, found out, and she didn't share with

me for the whole day.

And then at the end of the day, she shared it with me, and she

said, hey, we're gonna have a son.

I was like, you're joking.

Stop.

Like, it can't be.

Like, I got.

I got the clothes ready.

I've got everything ready.

Because I wanted a daughter so badly.

And I remember when she told me that, and she's like, no, I'm

serious.

And I was like, man, God, what have I done?

Like, what have I done to deserve this?

Like, and.

And it's not that I don't love my boys.

Don't get me wrong.

It's just That I wanted something.

How many of us, like, we want something and then we're asking God

for that thing.

And when he doesn't provide it, you start thinking to yourself,

like, it's me.

And here's what I, when I said it's all connected is because you

gotta understand, like me when I was younger, I struggled with pornography.

So for me, all these thoughts started to play back and I was like,

God, and this is.

I'm a scientific thinker and all of that.

So I was like, man, Lord.

And I don't know how deep I can go, but I've spilled all of my

X chromosomes.

That's what I thought.

It's funny.

But it's also like, this is how the enemy plays with you.

And so I thought to myself, man, God, I spilled all my X chromosomes.

I messed up.

It's all me.

I shouldn't have done that, Lord.

But then my wife, in that moment.

And sometimes it is something amazing to have a great partner in

your life.

But also for those of you that don't have partners in your life,

it's great to have great people around you, right?

It's great to have a counselor, it's great to have a pastor.

It's great to have like a ground crew member that you will

walk through in a flight crew or whatever the case may be.

And so in that moment, my wife looked at me and said, randall, you

have four boys because God knew that you would raise amazing

men.

And here's where she topped it off and she said, and what's amazing

is that you're gonna have four amazing daughters because our children

are gonna have wives and they're going to be able to pull

in the right woman, the right that I'm gonna be able to just say,

hey, you are not just my daughter in law.

No, you are my daughters.

And so I get that opportunity to raise up four boys and to expel

the lies that the enemy will speak.

And negative self talk doesn't just sound like, oh, you're stupid,

you're this.

But it also sounds like, hey, remember that porn that you used

to watch?

Well, this is why you no longer are.

You're not getting what it is that you want.

That's a lie from the pit of hell.

God knows what he was doing.

And he used every single experience.

What did he tell Joseph?

Didn't you talk about that last week like he told Joseph, I

will you.

I.

What is it?

I.

You know where I'm going.

You don't know where I'm going.

I know it and this is what.

This is what he told Joseph.

That I will use everything right for my good.

I will use every single thing for my good.

For his good.

Not your good, but for his good.

And I promise you, I promise you online, I promise you, like Long

Island.

I promise you Brooklyn, New Jersey, that God's good is so much

better than what you think is good.

It's so much greater than that.

So powerful and so good.

You know, I was thinking about how you.

Before you talked about the exquisite chromosomes.

And I'm like, why did he want a daughter so badly?

And I wondered.

And tell me if I'm like, off or.

It's somewhat.

Did you want a daughter because you were able to, like, speak

tenderly and softly and you wanted that and not.

I'm not realizing that you can still do that with your sons.

All right, let me sit down for my counseling session.

No, that's so right.

Cause I had a father who spoke very, like, was tough on me.

I remember specifically, and I'm not gonna take too long, but

I remember specifically, there was this verb.

There was this book, this grammar book that my dad on Saturdays

would have me, like, read.

I'm talking about textbook.

And it's not a book.

Like, you know, it wasn't Tom Sawyer, right?

It was a grammar book called all in One White book with green

letters.

You could tell the trauma, right?

And.

And I remember learning my pronouns.

I remember learning my.

My verbs.

I remember that a noun was a.

A thing, a place.

And I remember I could.

If I.

If I really think back, I could remember what page that was

on.

And.

And my father was tough on me.

And.

And I. I said to myself, I'll never be like that with my children.

And so I guess I never thought about it that way, but it was the

idea of expecting that I wasn't going to be this masculine

man, right?

Like that.

And thinking that masculinity looked like authority in the sense

of yelling and pouring down and being tough on someone.

And.

But then I was like, you know what?

But my son will need that.

But I won't give them that.

But my daughter won't need that.

She'll just basically need my love.

She'll need me to hold her in my arms and hold her.

Yeah, to hold her in my arms and all these things.

But then again, like, I do the same thing with my sons.

I'm able to hold my sons.

As a matter of fact, there's times where my sons will come to

me and they'll be like, hold me.

The most precious Moment.

I'll give up the mic.

I'm so sorry.

But the most precious moment in my summer, this, this summer was

where I, my, my sons have three, two, two bunk, a bunk bed,

and then this pull out bed underneath.

And I was laying on the pullout bed with my, my third son

and then my oldest was on the top bunk and then he grabbed in and

he's like, man, this is where all the action is at.

And he jumped in and he was just like, he just laid there with

us.

And that was the most amazing moment with my sons this summer because

it was a moment where I recognized how important my presence

in their lives is.

And I could do that with a daughter, but I can also do that

with a son.

So you don't need a daughter, Alison.

And interrupt me, Pastor Jocelyn, if you want to, but I just

wanna respond to both of you because I'm so grateful for your

vulnerability.

And, you know, vulnerability, that's a gift we have as the body

of Christ.

And you know, even if you are online, whoever you're sitting in

a room with right now, someone next to you on the couch, someone

in your revival home, whatever location you're at, you know, the

people around you are so important.

Because when we can confess to one another, not both our sin, but

also the lies that we're thinking, that is what breaks the

power of those lies in our lives and allows us to begin transforming

our mind.

Because sometimes we don't even notice.

Like you said in the beginning, Pastor Jocelyn, you don't

know what you don't know.

So sometimes you might be speaking and you don't even realize

you're speaking words of self hate.

But maybe your kid overhears you or your spouse or your friend.

And then we become aware.

And sometimes those lies are things that maybe, you know, the

narrative that we heard as a child, the way that we were spoken

to, that becomes our inner narrative.

And many times we have to become aware of that.

Forgive those people who spoke those hateful words or even just

words that didn't acknowledge our existence or didn't make us feel

that we were important or seen, you know, but when we share

with one another, we also break that lie that we're isolated.

And that is a lie of the enemy.

You are not alone.

You are not alone with your negative thoughts.

Your brothers and sisters are struggling too.

And together we can encourage each other.

You know, I love in the who's doing the daily Growth Journal, I

love that on every page it says, who can you encourage today?

And this is a way, as a body of Christ, that we can break that

bond of.

That bondage of negative self talk is send encouragement to your

brother or sister, to your friend, Especially if, you know,

they struggle with a certain thing, like in their own mind, like

they're not worthy or they don't like something about themselves,

or send them encouragement.

Anyway, that's what I got.

I love that.

And I wanna bring that to the next question.

If you could answer it, Alison.

So John 10:10 says, the thief comes to not only steal and kill

John 10:10

and destroy.

And then Jesus says, I came to give life and life more abundantly.

And so Satan speaks lies.

And it often is disguised in our own voice.

And they feel really familiar.

And so it's when God is.

Or when you could think about how that negative self talk comes

in a form of quiet lies.

What are some of the common things or the common lies that people

believe about themselves that keep them stuck?

That's a really good question.

I think people have lies about their identity, you know, that they're

not worthy, they're not good enough, they're not lovable.

Nobody likes me.

I'm not good at anything.

Other people are talented, but I don't have those kind of talents.

And a lot of this comes from these ideas that our culture, our

education system, our surroundings teach us about, you

know, Darwinianism or determine determinism that says,

you are who you are, you were born that way, and there's nothing

you can do about it, you know, or the opposite.

I grew up in the 80s and 90s.

You're a special snowflake.

Anything you want to do, you can do.

And then the problem with that is you start to try to do something,

it doesn't work out, and, well, now I'm a failure.

What does that mean about me?

If I was a special snowflake who could do anything, and then I

can't.

I'm defective, you know, so.

And none of those things are what God says about us.

Was there any moment in your life that you felt stuck?

Put me on the spot, Pastor.

Okay.

When did I feel put on the spot?

Right now.

No, you know, I. I struggle with anxiety and my anxiety, you

know, I'm gonna give an example of even a few weeks ago,

I had a guest came into town, and they were supposed to stay with

me.

And I had a plan of I was gonna be the best host and there

was gonna be a beautiful flower, and I wrote a note and it

was gonna.

And I had this whole idea of who I was as the host and as the

day was going on.

I started getting increasingly anxious because my husband was working

in the area that our guest was supposed to stay.

And I started feeling this.

I'm getting very emotional.

I started feeling this feeling like, I can't do this.

I'm not gonna be able to have this ready in time.

Oh, my gosh.

I'm failing her as a host.

I'm failing as a friend.

This is a spiritual gift, hospitality, and I can't even do

it.

And I literally texted my friends, you can testify.

The friends who are listening.

And I said, I feel like a failure.

I'm sorry, I can't host you.

And it was the day of that they were supposed to stay with me.

And I was so.

And I was.

I felt so shameful that my anxiety got in the way of me being

able to just, like, push past what was happening and allow my friend

to come.

But the incredible thing was she responded by saying, thank you

for being so vulnerable.

It helps me when you are able to say how you feel, because then

if I'm going through something, I know I can reach out

to you and tell you what's happening with me.

Look how God flipped that thing, right?

Our own struggle releases somebody else.

That's so good.

And I just hear you saying, like, your expectation didn't match

up with what you were able to deliver.

And how many times do we have negative self thoughts because we

have this expectation and it doesn't meet up with it, and then

we're just like, we're failing.

We're this, we're that.

And I love that you.

That you even use that as an example that that person was able

to know, oh, it has not nothing to do with me, but everything

to do with you.

And not like a dis.

But just, like, for her to understand what you were going through.

Pastor Randall, do you have anything you want to add to how you

see people stay stuck?

You're a pastor.

You bring people through financial breakthrough so many times.

And, like, what are some of the lies that people feel?

Stuck.

Yeah, I. I will say, I think it's more so about where are the

lies coming from?

We.

Yesterday, I was doing my.

I was getting my hair cut because I knew I was going to be

in front of all of y', all, and I was like, I got to look pretty

good.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Appreciate that.

He said, looking fresh, by the way.

I know you guys agree too.

All right, let me stop just joking.

But I was getting my hair cut, and the barber with me that was cutting

my hair, she said, to me, she said, you know, can you believe that

I've never been to jail?

I mean, it wasn't random.

It was a conversation we were having.

And then she said that.

She's like, you know, I've never been to prison.

There's so many people that have been to prison.

And I'm like, who do you know?

Like, I mean, I get it.

There are a lot of people, right?

But the fact that you felt like you were normal for.

Not like, that's something that you can share with someone and

say, hey, I've never been there.

The question I had in my mind was, who do you know?

And that's really the question that I would say is that we have

to ask ourselves is, is who?

Like, who told you that?

Or what did you see growing up?

Or who do you know that aligns with the thought that you have?

You know, social media will constantly make you feel like you're

not living up to the expectation.

But whose expectation?

I remember, like, going.

Coming to V1.

And every time I'd come to church, I'd be like, I'd leave church

feeling like, all right, I got it.

I know what I gotta do.

I just gotta listen to this word maybe on repeat or whatever,

or go through this scripture, and I'm good.

Then Apostle Mike would drop another word and I'd be like, oh,

my God.

Okay, here's something else.

And then I'd come back, like, three years later.

I'm like, oh, my God, like, when am I gonna get it?

And the thing I had to do was switch my perspective.

Perspective and say to myself, randall, you will never arrive.

Stop thinking you will arrive to someplace.

Like, the arrival comes when you make it to heaven.

And you no longer have to figure, like, life out.

You no longer have to figure this thing out.

And when we change our perspective, then we begin to stop

living to certain expectations of our past.

Of my father, who was trying to teach me, you know, all the grammar

and everything.

And I love my father, and he's taught me some great things.

And he taught me based off of his own experience.

He, in his mind, he was like, son, my dad wasn't educated.

I got educated.

So you're going to be educated, right?

And so now.

Now it was like, okay, this is all I'm going to teach you.

But then what happens to the sport phenom that didn't make it

to.

To.

To become the NBA or NFL player that he was going to become?

And then now it's like, all right, we're going to go to Every

practice, Son, what's wrong with you?

Why aren't you doing this?

And it's like, but that place where you were supposed to come in

love is now this place where you're trying to push this person,

this child or this person, too.

And it's like, what is your expectation?

So the question, the answer is really is, like, where is your perspective?

How are you looking at the situation that you're in?

Like, why do you.

Like, why did you feel like I have to be the greatest hospitality

host ever than anyone else?

Is it because you were watching Better Home and Gardens

like the night before?

You know, hgtv, like, oh, man, I don't have the flower at the middle

of the table with the letter that invites everyone.

My.

My house doesn't sit.

Smell like baked cookies and whatnot, you know, and it's.

It's like, what work?

What are you taking in?

So that's really so good.

That's so good.

So oftentimes we feel stuck is because we keep looking at our past

way too much, and we are believing the lies that people may

have spoken over us, and we're coming into agreement with it, and

we're like, okay, yes, that is who I am.

Like, you said that that's who I am.

I just.

I'm the same snowflake that has so many different meanings, but

I'm not going to go there.

But I like how what you said.

Pastor Ranzo, who do you know?

And that brings me to my next question.

And if, Christy, you can take this one.

Knowing God or knowing who God is helps us know who we are.

And if you don't know who you are, you need to learn who God is

in your life.

And so we're not defined by failure.

We're not defined by trauma.

We're not defined by comparison.

Hello, somebody?

Comparison.

We're defined by Christ.

So who is Christ?

Mark 1:11 says, and a voice came from heaven.

Mark 1:11

You are my beloved son.

With you I am well pleased.

And so God, he spoke this over Jesus before he did anything.

And it was identity that precedes performance.

And so, Christy, if you could tell me how your relationship with

God helped you confront and replace those inner lies.

So just for a little context before I answer that, when I first

joined my first Connect group that you led, and I remember sharing

the things that I was experiencing, you said, you're going

through an identity crisis.

And I was like, what?

What?

Like, right now, I'm a therapist.

I'm like, oh, this is what I'm experiencing, experiencing.

And then I just went into my own therapy with my counselor.

I was like, I want to know who God is.

Who is He?

Who am I?

Who does he say I am?

And in that process, it was like a two year process that I was

in counseling, I just got to know him being faithful, right?

I got to know him being true that he would not fail me, that he

intercedes, right?

That Jesus, that even when I was a sinner and dead in my trespasses,

that he died for me, that he didn't leave me in that darkness.

And knowing that truth and knowing that he called me, God called

me to Himself.

It just showed me everything of who I am.

And I was able to just tell myself and remind myself that if

the enemy tries to come and, and cause doubt, my faith will submit,

sustain me, that I'll remember that God says who I am, that when

he said I am the great I am, he told me who I was in him, right?

So when those doubts come up, I know for a fact, without a shadow

of a doubt that it's not from God and that I rebuke it and I resist

the devil and I don't give myself to him.

Because I do have an intercessor who prays for me, who's

interceding for me, who's constantly seeing, saying that I

know your faith will not fail.

And that if I stand on that and stand firm, I can overcome everything

through Christ who strengthens me, and I'm an overcomer.

And I just cancel all of those doubts in the name of Jesus.

I love that so much.

Because, man, when you said, I have an intercessor that prays for

me, and that is scripture, but it's also a song, right?

And it has gone throughout the earth and it's so powerful because

how many times do we believe the light?

I need that person to pray for me because that person has an anointing.

And I want to be free from all these things.

But when we believe who God is, then we know who we are.

I have an intercessor that prays for me.

And I'm not going to be sifted by the things of this world.

I'm not going to be.

I'm not going to be caught up in the lies of what was spoken.

Over me when I was little or.

If I struggled reading or if I struggled comprehension.

I'm not stupid.

I'm not gonna believe those lies.

I have an intercessor that prays for me.

Let's stand to our feet across all campuses, every living room,

I want you to speak over yourself right now.

Close your eyes.

Put your hand over your heart.

Because that is a place to know that we're safe.

And I want you to tell yourself the lie.

I'm too broken to be used by God.

Come on, say it to yourself.

I'm too broken to be used by God.

Many of you thought that before, but here's the truth and

I want you to say it over yourself.

So repeat after me.

God's power is made perfect in my weakness.

God's power is made perfect in my weakness.

And so, Father, I declare over each person today that they are enough

in Christ Jesus.

Your voice matters, your thoughts matter.

Your life matters.

You belong here.

And God has a plan and a purpose for your life today.

No pain is wasted.

And Father, we pray right now in the name of Jesus.

We take and we uproot every lie of the enemy that would speak

over them to say that they're not enough.

And we speak truth.

They are enough.

And you came for their very life.

You came to transform.

You came to give new life.

Where.

Lives have been broken.

You came to bring new life.

And we thank you Jesus for new life.

We thank you Jesus, that you are the rescuer.

You are the rescuer from every pit and every prison that we've ever

been in in the name of Jesus.

So we pray God, that negative self talk will not be our portion.

And we take a hold of truth.

We take a hold of truth right now in the name of Jesus.

And we pray over our minds that it would be renewed every day

and that our hearts would align, that our emotions would align.

What you say in the name of Jesus.

So we thank you Father, for your truth.

We thank you God, that your blood breaks the yoke of bondage,

that your truth comes in and we could be set free, God.

And your light comes in, O God, and you pray bring light over

the darkness of the things that we believe in our hearts and

our minds.

And so Father, we pray God, that you would bring freedom, that

you would set free the minds today, that you would mend the hearts

today that are broken.

In the name of Jesus Christ, we pray.

Amen and Amen.

Thank you Jesus.

Let's give God a shout of praise.

Thank you Jesus.

Thank you Father.