Hey Friend!

Let’s talk about limiting beliefs. Specifically, let’s talk about eliminating limiting beliefs from a Biblical perspective. I am diving into three simple steps you can really lean on when you’re just done.

When you’re done telling yourself:

• You’re not enough.
• No one will listen.
• You can’t. 
• It won’t be right.
• It has to be perfect.
• You’re too messy.
• You take too much action.
• You’re not successful if you don’t make any money.
• Money is the root of all evil so you can’t sell anything.

Whatever your limiting beliefs are, it is time to be done with them. Scripturally, God has the answer for us. He has the answer for everything.

Let’s dive into how to blast any limiting belief – excuse – in three simple steps.

Step One in Eliminating Limiting Beliefs: Identify the Belief

We have to identify the limiting beliefs or excuses. Those words can sometimes be used interchangeably.

We have to be vigilant in examining our hearts and minds to become aware of the thoughts holding us back. We can look to Proverbs 4: 23, which says:

“Guard your heart above all else for it determines the course of your life.”

What lies or even things you believe are truths, have you allowed to come into your mind through what you were told as a child or things you believe to be true about yourself and have now become rooted in your heart as truth? We have to identify them. 

For this step, I want you to pause and journal 2-3 limiting beliefs you believe about yourself that you know are holding you back.

Step Two in Eliminating Limiting Beliefs: We Have to Replace It With Faith & Positive Confession

Mark 11:23:

“Truly I tell you, if anyone says to this mountain, “Go throw yourself into the sea,” and does not doubt in their heart, but believes what they say will happen, it will be done for them.”

We need to replace limiting beliefs with truths and positive confession. 

How can you trust God’s power and believe you can overcome any obstacle? How do we speak words of faith and positivity over our situation and affirm that ability to overcome it?

If you have taken Clarify Your Calling, you know I have a module on “God Says Statements.” If you haven’t, and you need clarity on your calling or what your business will be, go to clarifyyourcallingcourse.com. I do a segment on reframing these limiting beliefs with God’s truth. 

An example of a limiting belief:

“I believe no one will listen to me. I am unworthy of being heard.”

You find truth in Psalm 81:10:

“I am the Lord you God who brought you up out of Egypt, open wide your mouth and I will fill it.”

Whenever I feel unworthy, I remind myself, “Open my mouth and He shall fill it.”

You can rewrite each of your limiting beliefs with the truth. Take it a step further and create a prayer around it. For example:

“Lord, Jesus, thank you so much for the blessing of my words, for reminding me that if I open my mouth You shall fill it, and that I’m worthy of speaking. This lie that I am unworthy is fear and I cast that away in the name of Jesus. Thank you, God. Amen.”

It’s a four-tiered approach:

1. Identify the limiting belief.
2. Rewrite it.
3. Wrap it in God’s truth by finding a Scripture that rebukes the lie.
4. Pray over it.

Step Three in Eliminating Limiting Beliefs: Take Action and Persist

James 2:17:

“In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead.”

Just holding onto faith is fantastic, but we need to accompany our faith with action. I always say, “God’s sitting at the table but you have to pull up the chair.” You have to brainstorm, partner, and move with God. Then move your feet. 

How can you take steps in the right direction toward your goals? Even when it’s challenging, you don’t think you’re worthy, or your heart is telling you no. Or maybe it’s telling you to stay small, stuck, or safe. What is that whisper of limiting belief for you? 

How can you persevere and take that one, next right step? Believe that God is with you in this. How can you trust in His plan for your life? Ultimately, every single limiting belief we allow to hold us captive is a lack of trust.  If you completely trust and surrender it all to Him, nothing is impossible. There is no such thing as fear of the world or of man.

There is no such thing as staying small, stuck, and stagnant because when we trust in the Lord, we have God-led confidence to move through that limiting belief, crush it, and move on to who God says we are.

Blasting Your Limiting Beliefs

By following these three simple steps:

1. Identify the limiting belief,
2. Replace the limiting belief with faith and positive confession,
3. Take action and persist,

You can blast any limiting belief out of your mind, out of your future, and out of your business, marriage, parenting – any of it! You can move forward with absolute confidence because God says that is possible for you. 

It is critically important that we look to Scripture; open our Bibles, and read the Word of the Lord to find the truth. Go back to the source! Find incredible nuggets of wisdom especially as it pertains to your business. God is calling you to move forward and step into this Kingdom authority He has crafted for you. He wants each and every one of us to move into that capacity because that’s how we are going to bless others. It’s how we will use our trials and traumas for triumph in someone else’s life.

There is glory on the other side of us following these three steps and moving out of the fear of these limiting beliefs.

My Prayer For You

I ask the Lord to give you strength and courage as you walk this line.

“Lord, be beside us as we push through these fears and limiting beliefs. Help us as we cast them away in the name of Jesus, and we ask that they be replaced with Godly truth in belief for what You have set out for us to achieve. We pray that You would give us every single thing we need: ample time and encouragement; that You would help our families to be supportive, and help the finances be what they need to be so we can move forward in accordance with Your will for our lives. We trust You, Lord, and ask You to amplify it in Jesus’ name. Fill us with excitement about the work You have us doing; we love You! Amen.”

I pray this blesses you!

Xo,

Stef

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