09/21/2025
The Unhealthiness of Warped Opinions About Ourselves, and the Opinions of Others
There’s an unhealthy and unholy place we can give to people and their opinions of us. I’m not talking about words of counsel, encouragement and support from others, or even prophetic words. These things certainly have and should have a place in our lives. I’m talking about folks’ opinions (or comments) that may not even reflect reality or/and truth. Left unchecked, if we give them too much thought or attention, these things can begin to derail us and eventually even spell disaster in our lives. We can further find ourselves consumed and so caught up in what people think, like it’s an addiction, (even in what we think and say about ourselves), that we begin to lose our sense of identity and forget who we are. Suddenly, we find ourselves depressed, in a wilderness of confusion, left wondering what has happened to us. But, there comes a moment, when we feel like this, that we have to say, “Enough is enough! It’s time to return to truth!”
People of God,
It’s time to secure ourselves in what God thinks of us, and not in our own opinions, or the opinions of people. There have been moments in my life when I felt that I had to undo patterns like this. I had to undo the lies, by reminding myself who I am, and allowing God to remind me who I am. In those moments, I had to jump into some fasting and prayer, and the word. This helped tremendously. But, I had to continue pressing in, in other ways, too. I had to stop entertaining the lies, and begin to believe the truth about me. I had to remember that I was bought with a price, that I have a Redeemer, that I have an advocate with the Father, and He is Jesus Christ, my Lord. There was damage that was done. Yes. But, thank God, it wasn’t permanent. I am believing the same thing for you.
The damage that was done to me was two fold. It started with the opinions of others, but it was also my own destructive opinions of me (my own brokenness), things that I believed about me that, even though they may have been factual, they were not really me as God declares in His word. So, they weren’t true. I’ll say it again. Even though they may have been factual, I had to keep in mind that in Christ, I am a new creature, that God has the last say. I didn’t have to stay wallowing in confusion. I didn’t have to stay down. I had a choice in the matter. I can choose to get back up, because Christ made a way for me to do so. It’s called the cross. And, guess what? I put my hope in what God says about me, (instead of what I and others thought about me) and, I did get up.
And, I come today to tell you that if this is you, you dont have to believe the lies. My brother/ sister, it’s time to get back up. It’s time to come back. It’s time to come out of this mental and spiritual wilderness and begin experiencing afresh who you truly are, in Christ. It’s time to believe the truth about yourself. You are a new creature in Christ. The old is gone. The new is here. There is a better you locked up inside of you. Maybe you sinned. Get up, repent, and follow Jesus once more. If you feel that after everything that’s been said and done, you are spotted or stained and like it’s all over. I’m here to tell you that it’s not. Jesus sees you. I counsel you not to give up. Have faith. Ask God to show you how, if you don’t know how. Ask Him for His grace in the matter. And, don’t stop fighting ‘till the real you (the healed you) is revealed in full. War ‘til ‘that you’ manifests. Fight without losing hope. Remember that it is God who’s really doing it, not you. He’s doing the healing and the resurrecting. And, He never tires. He never quits. So, don’t you quit. He will continue to work on you and restore you, as you put your trust in Him. As you trust Him, Every lie will be dismantled and replaced by the truth. You can take that to the bank.
Stay blessed. Stay in the fight… and simply, believe.
“being confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ;” —Philippians 1:6 NKJV
HE WILL DO IT!!!!
Pastor Carlos
