{"id":497,"date":"2021-02-08T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-08T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvarycathedral.org\/drbobnichols\/?p=497"},"modified":"2021-04-08T10:51:57","modified_gmt":"2021-04-08T15:51:57","slug":"self-defeating-self-image","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calvarycathedral.org\/wpbobnichols\/2021\/02\/08\/self-defeating-self-image\/","title":{"rendered":"Self-defeating Self-image"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u201cG<\/strong>od sees more in you than you see in yourself.<strong>\u201d<\/strong><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><em><sup>12<\/sup><\/em><em>And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him, and said unto him, The LORD is with thee, thou mighty man of valour.&nbsp;<sup>13<\/sup>And Gideon said unto him, Oh my Lord, if the LORD be with us, why then is all this befallen us? and where be all his miracles which our fathers told us of, saying, Did not the LORD bring us up from Egypt? but now the LORD hath forsaken us, and delivered us into the hands of the Midianites.&nbsp;<sup>14<\/sup>And the LORD looked upon him, and said, Go in this thy might, and thou shalt save Israel from the hand of the Midianites: have not I sent thee? <sup>15<\/sup>And he said unto him, Oh my Lord, wherewith shall I save Israel? behold, my family is poor in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father&#8217;s house.&nbsp;<sup>16<\/sup>And the LORD said unto him, Surely I will be with thee, and thou shalt smite the Midianites as one man.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>Judges 6:12-16<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In this passage of scripture the writer reminds us that there is one qualification for victory &#8211; that God be with us. As long as we are looking at our own shortcomings we will not be able to focus on the victory that God has waiting for us. Don&#8217;t feel qualified or deserving of the miracle? Well, in the natural you may not be. But God doesn&#8217;t look on your natural qualifications or what you may have done in the past. God always sees you in Christ. He sees you through the blood of Jesus. He sees you victorious in the things He sends you to and so should you!<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<strong>Victory Decision<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">A low self-image is a distorted form of pride and is self-defeating. I will be open to seeing myself the way God does and act accordingly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cGod sees more in you than you see in yourself.\u201d&nbsp; 12And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him, and said unto him, The LORD is with thee, thou mighty man of valour.&nbsp;13And Gideon said unto him, Oh my Lord, if the LORD be with us, why then is all this befallen us? and where &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.calvarycathedral.org\/wpbobnichols\/2021\/02\/08\/self-defeating-self-image\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Self-defeating Self-image&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-one-liners"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8lc9u-81","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":117,"url":"https:\/\/www.calvarycathedral.org\/wpbobnichols\/2020\/11\/30\/i-believe-god\/","url_meta":{"origin":497,"position":0},"title":"I Believe God","author":"admin","date":"November 30, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"\u201cThe first report is not the last report.\u201d \u00a01In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. 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