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Overcoming Insecurity

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  • Determine your worth: Change your focus from the limitations you have to your strengths and potential. The fact is that everyone has weaknesses and strengths. Despite your weaknesses, your strengths enable you to achieve something in your life. Foster and focus on those strengths rather than weaknesses. When you focus more on your strength, it will become more evident to others. Remind yourself of your successes rather than your failures. Instead of being carried away by your weaknesses and negative thoughts, find out the things that are good about you. Stop your inner negative self-talk.
  • Jesus said treat others as you expect to be treated by others.
  • Overcoming your weakness: Working on your weaknesses is important. We need to eliminate the negativity within us. Perfectionism through human strength is an impossible pursuit. However, grace is sufficient. Jesus understands our weaknesses and enables us to overcome them. We can gain victory over all our weaknesses through the power of the Holy Spirit. When you feel inadequate, the right place to depend on is God’s adequacy and sufficiency. God’s resources are unlimited, and He has no limitations. God allows you to grow through your failures.
  • Seeing life through the eyes of God: Success in God’s terms is different from man’s terms.
  • Determine the truth about your fear: Analyze beliefs, feelings, and thoughts with realities rather than emotions. Ask yourself if your beliefs, feelings, thoughts, and perspectives are true to reality or not. Jesus said the truth will set you free. Find out the reality of your fear and your own inadequacies. Often, insecurity develops from assumptions about problems that do not exist. Insecurity may also develop from false assumptions about others. This is mind reading. God is your protection.
  • Find out the root: Often, insecurity finds its root in poor formative experiences and bitter experiences in childhood, adolescence, and early adulthood. Insecurity may also arise from peer pressure, social expectations, past bitter experiences (such as abuse, domestic violence), and failures in life. When you are able to find the root of insecurity, it becomes easily manageable.
  • Form your own value system and convictions: We live in a world of diversity and fast change. Realize that no one can please everyone by gaining acceptance. As an individual, everyone is different from others in values, character, and potential. When your insecurity arises from lack of social acceptance or approval, you need to remind yourself that as an individual, you need your own convictions and values. If somebody disagrees with your value system, then you need to learn how to celebrate life in diversity.
  • Avoid comparisons: Unhealthy comparison often brings condemnation to our minds. We need to realize that everyone is unique. We are not supposed to covet someone else’s uniqueness. Understand that God is your advocate, and that you can overcome approval-seeking.
  • Eliminate the negative and celebrate the positive.
  • Often an insecure person may try to find security in money, health, job, materialism, social groups, friends, or partners. Insecurity often arises when a person puts trust in things that have no stability or eternal value. However, trust in God will give you a new perspective on life. This will help you overcome all your insecurity.
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