Group 4 – Section 1

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… (Your name), listen to what you are saying. Let yourself believe, love, and be thankful for the truth!

…Heart, love that I don’t have to stay away from God. And, God, please keep helping me get closer to You. Even when I feel hurt, I should be confident that more intimacy with God is best for me.

…I will let myself hear, believe, and love that God is good. God is so good that He makes even the bad and horrible things that happen work out in our lives for the “ultimate end of good” (Rom. 8:28). Heart, God does not betray His people! It is evil that lies to us and makes us feel betrayed by God. So, I am telling myself to hear and believe that it is evil that is evil, NOT God! Evil lies and betrays us. God does NOT do that!

…Heart, let yourself believe that what it seems like God did (or didn’t do) doesn’t prevent me from being fully convinced that God is good toward me. I am turning away from self-protection and am training my heart to be confident that God is good. I will believe it. Heart, refuse to panic—embrace these wonderful truths about God. (Pause to hear, believe, and love it as the truth!)

…Heart, rejoice that what happened when (a painful experience from your recent or distant past), doesn’t prevent me from receiving God’s loving presence. And even with that, God has NOT betrayed me…

…Heart, rejoice that I don’t have to hide from God, give up, and settle for hopelessness and despair. It is safer for me to love God and be near to Him. It is unsafe to be away. (pause to love His closeness!)

…Heart, rejoice in the truth. I don’t have to blame God for what I couldn’t (or can’t) control—I repent of feeding on revenge by staying away from God because of it. (pause to believe and love the truth!)

…Heart, rejoice that I don’t have to blame God for what (name of a person who hurt you) did or does wrong. I turn my heart away from blaming God for their behavior. (pause to believe it!)

…Heart, rejoice in the truth that I don’t have to feed myself the power I could feel from staying bitter at God and withholding forgiveness—God doesn’t want to hurt me just for the sake of hurting me. God is entirely good. It is evil that is evil. It is best to be near because God soothes me best.

… (Your name), I am humbling myself into believing this truth: God “…has not despised…the afflicted; neither has He hidden His face from him…” (Ps. 22:24). “…My heart trusts in Him, and I am helped…” (Ps. 28:7). (pause to hear, believe, and love the God who is close!)

…Heart, turn from blaming God for (some bad experience) . Believe God. Trust that you are near to God by faith that He has drawn near to you here. Heart, rejoice that it is right to believe that God is good, that His kingdom comes, and that He wants what is good for me and the world in which I live.

… (Your name), I repent of self-protection that keeps me from believing that God loves me: “…the Lord loves His people…” (2 Chron 2:11); “…great is your love toward me…” (Ps. 86:13 NIV).

… (Your name), listen to what you are saying. Let yourself believe, love, and be thankful for the truth!

…Heart, rejoice in the truth that I am free to be completely confident that it is good, safe, and proper for me to draw near to God by trusting Him to draw near and wash me clean as He comes (James 4:8; Heb. 10:19-22); I renounce fear. By faith and with gratitude, I am determined to trust that God is drawing near and His kingdom is coming to me here (Heb. 12:22-24, 28). By faith, I trust that I am sitting on God’s lap, and He is reaching into me and healing my hurts. (pause to hear it)

… (Your name), repent of holding back from drawing near, staying before the Lord, and looking at Him. I will not hold back because of pressure from people, from religious people, or the demonic.

… (Your name), I am confident God does good and that evil does evil. I set my heart to believe in “…the tender mercy of our God…” (Luke 1:78). God is good and wants what is best for me.

… (Your name), I am confident and secure because of the extreme purity of God’s goodness toward me. And even “Though the fig tree should not blossom and there be no fruit on the vines, though the yield of the olive should fail and the fields produce no food, though the flock should be cut off from the fold and there be no cattle in the stalls, yet I will exult in the Lord, I will rejoice in the God of my salvation. The Lord God is my strength, and He has made my feet like hinds’ feet, and makes me walk on my high places” (Hab. 3:17-19).

… (Your name), I repent of self-protection toward God. The Lord is very good toward me! I am confident because IT IS WRITTEN: “…none of those who take refuge in Him will be condemned” (Ps. 34:22).

“When I am afraid, I will put my trust in You…What can mere man do to me?” (Ps. 56:3,4).

… (Your name), let yourself hear and believe that God is good, and He does NOT betray His people! One of the main goals of evil is to lie to us until we feel betrayed by God. Heart, hear, and let yourself believe that it is evil that is evil, NOT God! Evil lies and betrays us. God does NOT do that! (Pause to be reassured)

… (Your name), I am confident and secure because “…God is my helper; the Lord is the sustainer of my soul” (Ps. 54:4). (Pause to let yourself feel confident because of the truth!)

… (Your name), I am confident, and I am secure because it is just like they said in the Bible; “…our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the furnace of blazing fire; and He will deliver us out of your hand, O king. But even if He does not, let it be known to you, O king, that we are not going to serve your gods or worship the golden image that you have set up” (Dan. 3:17,18). (pause to feel reassured by it!)

… (Your name), It is safe for me to trust God because “…those who know Your name will put their trust in You, for You, O Lord, have not forsaken those who seek You” (Ps. 9:10). IT IS WRITTEN that “…He will not fail you…” (Deut. 4:31). It is far safer for me to trust the Lord than to hold back!

… (Your name), listen to what you are saying. Let yourself believe, love, and be thankful for the truth!

… (Your name), I am confident and secure because even though life is challenging, God doesn’t stop wanting to be good toward me: “Come, let us return to the Lord. For He has torn us, but He will heal us…; He has wounded us, but He will bandage us” (Hos. 6:1). “…you, O Lord, are a compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness” (Ps. 86:15 NIV). (pause to hear, believe, and love the truth!)

… (Your name), I am confident and secure because IT IS WRITTEN: “…I will never desert you, nor will I ever forsake you” (Heb. 13:5). Lord, YOU are “…the Shepherd and Guardian of your souls” (1 Peter 2:25). (pause to hear, believe, and love the God who is close!)

… (Your name), “…the Lord will not abandon His people on account of His great name…” (1 Sam. 12:22). (pause to hear, believe, and love the God who is close!)

… (Your name), I repent of letting fear paralyze me spiritually. I repent from fear of being disappointed again. God has good plans for me! “‘For I know the plans that I have for you,’ declares the Lord, ‘plans for welfare and not for calamity to give you a future and a hope” (Jer 29:11).

… (Your name), I love the truth, and I let myself believe that “…the Lord will not abandon His people, nor will He forsake [us, as] His inheritance” (Ps. 94:14). (Pause to feel confident from it!)