Pushing Through Series

AND – check out what this very famous person said in an interview with Vogue magazine… a few years back

My drive in life comes from a fear of being mediocre. That is always pushing me. I push past one spell of it and discover myself as a special human being but then I feel I am still mediocre and uninteresting unless I do something else. Because even though I have become somebody, I still have to prove that I am somebody. My struggle has never ended and I guess it never will.

DO – you know who said that? Madonna.

LIKE – I said insecurity is pretty much every person’s battle at some time or another.

Even for Jesus followers…

Some of you have probably heard of Sheila Walsh (Christian singer, writer, a host of the 700 club and Women of Faith Conference speaker)

She writes…

One morning I was sitting on a national television program with my nice suit and inflatable hairdo and that night I was in the locked ward of a psychiatric hospital, the psychiatrist asked me, “Who are you??

“I’m the co-host of The 700 club”

“That’s not what I meant,” he said

“Well, I’m a writer. I’m a singer”

“That’s not what I meant. Who are you?”

“I don’t have a clue,” I said.

And he replied, “Now that’s right and that’s why you are here.”

She continues…

I had been measuring myself by what other people thought of me and it was slowly killing me.

Before I entered the hospital, a friend from the 700 Club (her best friend at the time) tried dissuade me from the journey,

“Please, Sheila, don’t do this, If you do God won’t be able to use you again. Besides people trust you. Once the public finds out where you’ve been your ministry is over. You’ll never be special again.”

She replied,

“I’m not trying to save my ministry, I’m trying to save my life”

AND LISTEN - at the lowest moment of her life she not only found that God was there, but that He both knew her and loved her. AND HE – loved her back to life and she now is living free.

NOW – I spent some time this week trying to find a study that would give me a percentage of people who struggle with insecurity – but I couldn’t find any.

SO – I thought we would do one in here…. Okay?

• Raise your hand if you have ever struggled with feelings of insecurity.

• Raise your hand if you have struggled with these feelings a lot more frequently then you would like.

• Raise your hand if you are feeling too insecure to raise your hand.

OKAY – here is how I want to attack this conversation, ‘Pushing Through”

FIRST – by talking about some of the major causes of our insecurity.

SECOND – by talking about the way to push through those insecurities.

SO MGCC – are you ready to do this…

The Causes Of Insecurity

Believing the lies of the enemy

He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies… - John 8:44

MGCC

Our enemy is a liar and he will do whatever he needs to do in an effort to attack your worth, value and your security in Christ…

AND UNDERSTAND - he often speaks his lies through other people.